Publications related to Leadership

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...

EAPRIL - European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning2024

Early-Career Coordinated Distributed Experiments: Empowerment Through Collaboration

Luis Gómez Gener

Coordinated distributed experiments (CDEs) enable the study of large-scale ecological patterns in geographically dispersed areas, while simultaneously providing broad academic and personal benefits for the participants. However, the effective involvement o ...

2020

Sarah Kenderdine + Merete Sanderhoff

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

This conversation focuses on the work of Sarah Kenderdine and Merete Sanderhoff, both of whom are based in Europe working on and within museums, as well as playing leadership roles in pan-institutional organisations such as Europeana and the Australasian A ...

Routledge2020

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior: A comparison of university students and staff from diverse faculties at a Swiss University

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Rafael Laurenti, Ralph Hansmann

In the context of an initiative to become a carbon neutral campus, an online survey (N = 1864) of students, scientists, and administrative and technical staff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Women as leaders in academic institutions: personal experience and narrative literature review

Janet Gordon Hering

For the last 12 years, I have had the pleasure and privilege to serve as the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Lausanne (EPFL) ...

2019

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Quentin Adrien Cavillier

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

Occupant health & well-being in green buildings: Trends and Future Directions

Dusan Licina

Expectations for high performance green buildings have been evolving over the last four decades. Green certification systems define, recognize, and demonstrate leadership in addressing building problems related to people and the environment. These systems ...

2019

IRGC Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

IRGC’s guidelines for the governance of systemic risks addresses the question of how to deal with systemic risks in the context of system transitions, i.e., in situations that require adaptation to new context conditions or transformation of an organisatio ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2018

The significance of organizational change management for sustainable competitiveness in manufacturing: exploring the firm archetypes

Gökan May

The successful development and deployment of adequate sustainable manufacturing strategies are still open issues and of utmost interest for research and practice. Guided by this particular challenge, we investigate the significance of organisational change ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Group Decisions Influence Emergence and Regulation of Leaders during Collective Migration of Epithelial Cells

Medhavi Vishwakarma

Collective migration is a central event involving coordinated movement of several individuals. One of the critical events during collective migration is the emergence of leading individuals, who provide directional guidance for the group movement. While on ...

EPFL2017

Computational Analysis Of Behavior In Employment Interviews And Video Resumes

Laurent Son Nguyen

Used in nearly every organization, employment interviews are a ubiquitous process where job applicants are evaluated by an employer for an open position. Consisting of an interpersonal interaction between at least one interviewer and a job applicant, they ...

EPFL2015

Exploring barriers to climate change adaptation in the Swiss tourism sector

Philippe Thalmann, Cecilia Matasci

Increasingly, various sectors are affected by climate change and need to find ways to adapt with much public guidance and support. This paper examines the adaptation process of a sector that started it some time ago - Swiss Alpine tourism. It identifies ba ...

Springer Verlag2014

Computational Methods for Audio-Visual Analysis of Emergent Leadership in Teams

Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

Face-to-face interactions are part of everyday life, ranging from family to working in teams and to global communities. Social psychologists have long studied these interactions with the aim of understanding behavior, motivations, and emergence of interact ...

EPFL2013

Early design phase evaluation of urban solar potential: Insights from the analysis of six projects

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Émilie Nault

This paper presents the outcome of a study based on the early-stage analysis of six virtual urban-scale designs located in Bern, Switzerland. A preliminary solar potential evaluation methodology is devised, inspired by previous studies, to allow the compar ...

2013

Can a Table Regulate Participation in Top Level Managers' Meetings?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Flaviu Roman

We present a longitudinal study on the participation regulation effects in the presence of a speech aware interactive table. This study focuses on training meetings of groups of top level managers, whose compositions do not change, in a corporate organizat ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

A Nonverbal Behavior Approach to Identify Emergent Leaders in Small Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

dentifying emergent leaders in organizations is a key issue in organizational behavioral research, and a new problem in social computing. This paper presents an analysis on how an emergent leader is perceived in newly formed, small groups, and then tackles ...

2012

Venture Capitalists in Firm Governance: Impact on Founder Turnover

Anu Wadhwa

Prior literature tells us VCs are responsible for ousting founders from their leadership positions and replacing them with professional management around IPO time. This argument assumes all founders are equally incapable of running a company beyond the ini ...

2010

Configurations of Resources & Capabilities and their Performance Implications: An Exploratory Study on Technology Ventures

Marc Gruber

As one of the most widely accepted theoretical perspectives in strategy, the resource-based view (RBV) suggests that a firm's resources underlie its ability to achieve competitive advantage. However, much of the extant work in this stream has examined the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms

Marc Gruber

We build on multiple theoretical perspectives to investigate the unique and joint effects of individual- and opportunity-level factors affecting job creation in new firms. We tested hypotheses using survey data from individuals who transitioned from unempl ...

Academy of Management2009