Kulturell intelligens og fremvoksende lederskap

Erik Lankut fra Handelshøyskolen ved UiA disputerer for ph.d.-graden med avhandlingen «Essays on Cultural Intelligence» fredag 10. september 2021.

Han har fulgt doktorgradsprogrammet ved Handelshøyskolen ved UiA, med spesialisering i International Business.

Erik Lankut er en cotutelle-kandidat mellom UiA og Syd-dansk Universitet i Danmark.

Slik oppsummerer Erik Lankut selv avhandlingen:

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.

Disputasfakta:

Prøveforelesning og disputas finner sted digitalt i konferanseprogrammet Zoom (lenke under).

Disputasen blir ledet av dekan Roger Normann, Handelshøyskolen ved Universitetet i Agder.

Prøveforelesning fredag 10. september kl 09:00

Disputas fredag 10. september kl 10:00

 

Oppgitt emne for prøveforelesning: «Leadership models in IB – theory and practice»

Tittel på avhandling: «Essays on Cultural Intelligence»

Søk etter avhandlingen i AURA - Agder University Research Archive, som er et digitalt arkiv for vitenskapelige artikler, avhandlinger og masteroppgaver fra ansatte og studenter ved Universitetet i Agder. AURA blir jevnlig oppdatert.

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her:

PhD thesis Erik Lankut-dissertation-preprintpdf-uia

Kandidaten: Erik Lankut (1992, Oslo) Siviløkonom fra UiA (2017) Mastergradsoppgave: Bibliometric Citation Analysis of Cultural Intelligence. Arbeider nå som universitetslektor ved USN - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Opponenter:

Førsteopponent: Professor Marina Latukha, doctor of economics at St. Petersburg University, Russland

Annenopponent: Lektor ph.d. Maria Elo, Institut for Marketing & Management, Syddansk Universitet, Danmark

Bedømmelseskomitéen er ledet av professor Lars Oxelheim, Universitetet i Agder

Veiledere i doktorgradsarbeidet var professor Ilan Alon, UiA og professor Nicole Franziska Richter, Syddanske universitet, Danmark

Opponent ex auditorio:

Disputasleder inviterer til spørsmål ex auditorio i innledningen i disputasen, med tidsfrister. Det er en forutsetning at opponenten har lest avhandlingen. Disputasleders e-post er tilgjengelig i chat-funksjonen under disputasen. Spørsmål om ex auditorio kan sendes til disputasleder Roger Normann på e-post roger.h.normann@uia.no