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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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13606: The Leadership Work of Mobilizing Committed Action - Interaction Research and Interactive Theatre

Friday, July 25, 2025
15:15 - 17:45 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Auditorium 15
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice
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Many contemporary organizations operate in dynamic environments that constantly present new demands, challenges, and opportunities for value creation. It is increasingly recognized in leadership research and practice that organizational adaptability and change depend on collective efforts, with members across the organization addressing and acting on emerging issues. From the perspective of leadership as a social influence process through which direction for coordinated action is produced and involved actors are mobilized, this workshop brings to life the everyday struggles, dilemmas, and practices involved in the leadership work of mobilizing actors to take responsibility for and action on emerging issues. Central to this is the question of how leadership actors get others to do something they might not otherwise do, without constraining initiative and agency in the process. In other words, it concerns the capacity of leadership to mobilize not just compliant, but committed action. The workshop combines recent interaction research in Danish organizations with interactive theatre facilitated by experienced theatre consultants, offering participants a unique opportunity to not only discuss, but also experience, experiment with, and engage live with the challenges involved in the leadership work of mobilizing committed action.