PhD defence: Olga Zarzecka

What resources flow in senior managers’ professional networks? The informal ties in professional networks provide senior managers with access to different types of resources. These resources can facilitate individual manager success as well as the performance of the organisations to which they belong. Extant research has established that senior managers differ in terms of the resources they access through their network ties, but the underlying mechanisms that affect differences in resource access remain unexplored. Specifically, in this dissertation I address what resources and why these flow through the informal ties in senior managers’ professional networks. These questions are examined in the context of the professional networks of a sample of Danish senior managers.
 
Primary Supervisor:
Professor Marie Louise Mors
Department of Strategic Management and Globalization
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary supervisors:
Mia Reinholt Fosgaard, External Lecturer
Department of Strategic Management and Globalization
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assistant Professor Florence Villeseche
Department of International Economics and Management
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Jasper Hotho (Chair)
Department of International Economics and Management
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Giuseppe Labianca, Gatton Chair in Management
Department of Management
University of Kentucky
 
Professor Marco Tortoriello
Department of Management and Technology
Bocconi University
 
Thesis:
The thesis is available here
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Economics and Management will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defense outside of PH408.