Professor Benjamin Laker
Professor of Leadership

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- Identity Work and Legitimacy,
- Intersectionality Theory,
- Leadership Development,
- Process Theorising and Multi-Level Methodology,
- Strategic Renewal
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Professor Benjamin Laker is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School. He has held his chair since 2018.
Benjamin's research explores how individuals and institutions construct a sense of who they are, examining how identity formation and legitimacy negotiation shape the nature of contemporary work. This agenda spans two multi-level themes: first, how actors navigate contested environments through identity work and temporal sensemaking; and second, how such micro-level dynamics inform strategic direction at the meso- and macro-levels. His findings are published in the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, the Journal of Consumer Research, Human Resource Management, Organizational Research Methods, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
An Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Business Research, Benjamin is also an Executive Guest Editor for two Special Issues: one in Technovation on identity and innovation processes and another in the Journal of Business Research on how identity-diverse teams engage in complex strategic decision-making.
Benjamin has authored four bestselling titles, including Closing The Service Gap (Financial Times, 2023) and Job Crafting (MIT Press, 2024), both endorsed by Apple, Google and Microsoft. His co-authored textbook, Advanced Strategic Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), written with the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Long Range Planning, has exceeded 20,000 distributions and received commendations from the University of Oxford and the Wharton School.
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Specialisms
- Identity Work and Legitimacy
- Intersectionality Theory
- Leadership Development
- Process Theorising and Multi-Level Methodology
- Strategic Renewal
Location
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