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Cultural Intelligence and leadership emergence

Erik Lankut of the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder has submitted his thesis entitled «Essays on Cultural Intelligence» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Friday 10 September 2021. (Photo: Private)

Ultimately, this research brings new evidence and implications for theory and practice by reconsidering the role of cultural intelligence with leadership emergence.

Erik Lankut

PhD Candidate

Erik Lankut of the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder has submitted his thesis entitled «Essays on Cultural Intelligence» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Friday 10 September 2021.

He has followed the PhD-programme at theSchool of Business and Law at the University of Agder.with specialisation in International Business.

Erik Lankut is a cotutelle-candidate between UiA and The University of Southern Denmark.

Summary of the thesis by Erik Lankut:

Cultural Intelligence and leadership emergence

In this dissertation, Erik Lankut begins his research journey by exploring and investigating how cultural intelligence (CQ for short) works across the business and management field, but also taking a closer at the role of cultural intelligence with leadership emergence. 

Cultural intelligence - the capability to succeed in cross-cultural environments 

Cultural intelligence (or CQ) is a concept that originally comes from the field of psychology.

More recently, business and management scholars have started to explore the role of cultural intelligence with outcomes such as performance at work, skills to negotiate, managing work assignments abroad (such as expatriates), or being a global leader. 

Erik began to look at the history of cultural intelligence in the business and management literature, only to discover that there are more concepts also being used to explore the same type of outcomes.  

From this discovery, Erik was able to explore potential overlaps with cultural intelligence while gaining further insights as to what the scholars know and do not know. From there, Erik decided to focus his dissertation on the role of cultural intelligence with leadership emergence. 

Three research papers 

In total, three research papers were written: 

  • Paper 1 reviewed the literature on cultural intelligence (CQ), cross-cultural competencies (CC) and global mindset (GM) in international business and management field. 
  • Paper 2 investigated the individual factors that determine whether an individual will emerge as a leader in a global virtual team (GVT).  
  • Paper 3 tested if the individual factors are a necessary condition for leadership emergence.

New evidence to the field 

Together, the three studies provide findings that can help both scholars and practitioners further understand the role of cultural intelligence and its effects on different more outcomes. 

Ultimately, this research brings new evidence and implications for theory and practice by reconsidering the role of cultural intelligence with leadership emergence.

Disputation facts:

The trial lecture and the public defence will take place online, via the Zoom conferencing app (link below)

Dean Roger Normann, School of Business and Law at The University of Agder, will chair the disputation.

Trial lecture Friday 10 September at 09:00 o'clock

Public defence Friday 10 September at 10:00 o'clock

Given topic for trial lecture«Leadership models in IB – theory and practice»

Thesis Title«Essays on Cultural Intelligence»

Search for the thesis in AURA - Agder University Research Archive, a digital archive of scientific papers, theses and dissertations from the academic staff and students at the University of Agder.

The thesis is available here:

 

The CandidateErik Lankut (1992, Oslo) Msc in International Management UiA (2017) Master thesis: "Bibliometric Citation Analysis of Cultural Intelligence". Present position: Assistant Professor at The University of South-Eastern Norway.

Opponents:

First opponent: Professor Marina Latukha, Doctor of economics at St. Petersburg University, Russia

Second opponent: Associate Professor Maria Elo, Doctor of Science in Economy, Department of Marketing & Management, The University of Southern Denmark

Professor Lars Oxelheim, University of  Agder, is appointed as the administrator for the assessment commitee.

Supervisors in the doctoral work were Professor Ilan Alon, UiA and Professor Nicole Franziska Richter, The University of Southern Denmark

Opponent ex auditorio:

The chair invites members of the public to pose questions ex auditorio in the introduction to the public defense, with deadlines. It is a prerequisite that the opponent has read the thesis. Questions can be submitted to the chair Roger Normann on e-mail roger.h.normann@uia.no