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Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X & Howard-Grenville, J. (2024). How to Lead When the Future Feels Unpredictable. Harvard Business Review,

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X, Langley, A. & Sergi, V. (2022). When everyone and no one is a leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership. Organization Studies, 44(2), pp. 201-227. doi: 10.1177/01708406221135225

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X (2021). Researching the post‐pandemic professional service firm: Challenging our assumptions. Journal of Management Studies, 58(5), pp. 1383-1388. doi: 10.1111/joms.12697

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X & Alvehus, J. (2020). Collective leadership dynamics among professional peers: Co-constructing an unstable equilibrium. Organization Studies, 41(9), pp. 1234-1256. doi: 10.1177/0170840619844291

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X (2020). The Emperor’s New Clothes: How Our Fear of Seeming Stupid Became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 19(2), pp. 227-229. doi: 10.5465/amle.2020.0121

Mosonyi, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-9057-4881, Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X & Gond, J-P. ORCID: 0000-0002-9331-6957 (2019). Management consulting: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge, identity, and power. International Journal of Management Reviews, 22(2), pp. 120-149. doi: 10.1111/ijmr.12218

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X (2019). Ambiguous authority and hidden hierarchy: Collective leadership in a professional service firm. Leadership, 16(1), pp. 62-86. doi: 10.1177/1742715019886769

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X (2019). How to lead your fellow rainmakers: Collectively, dynamically- and very carefully. Harvard Business Review, 2019(March-April), pp. 114-123.

Costas, J., Ekman, S., Empson, L. , Kärreman, D. & Muhr, S. L.view all authors (2018). Working time regimes: A panel discussion on continuing problems. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(3-4), pp. 271-282. doi: 10.1177/2397002218791389

Lupu, I., Spence, C. & Empson, L. (2018). When the past comes back to haunt you: the enduring influence of upbringing on the work-family balance decisions of professional parents. Human Relations, 71(2), pp. 155-181. doi: 10.1177/0018726717708247

Empson, L. (2017). Elite interviewing in professional organizations. Journal of Professions and Organization, 5(1), pp. 58-69. doi: 10.1093/jpo/jox010

Empson, L. (2017). My liminal life: Perpetual journeys across the research-practice divide. In: Bartunek, J. & McKenzie, J. (Eds.), Academic–Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities. (pp. 200-216). UK: Routledge.

Ashley, L. & Empson, L. (2016). Convenient fictions and inconvenient truths: Dilemmas of diversity at three leading accountancy firms. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 35, pp. 76-87. doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2015.05.002

Ashley, L. & Empson, L. (2016). Understanding social exclusion in elite professional service firms: field level dynamics and the 'professional project. Work, Employment & Society, 31(2), pp. 211-229. doi: 10.1177/0950017015621480

Empson, L. (2015). Leadership, Power, and Politics in Law Firms. In: Normand-Hochman, R. & Gardner, H. (Eds.), Leadership for Lawyers. (pp. 89-102). Globe Law and Business in association with the International Bar Association.

Lupu, I. & Empson, L. (2015). Illusio and overwork: playing the game in the accounting field. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 28(8), pp. 1310-1340. doi: 10.1108/aaaj-02-2015-1984

Empson, L. & Langley, A. (2015). Leadership and Professionals: Multiple Manifestations of Influence in Professional Service Firms. In: Empson, L., Muzio, D., Broschak, J. & Hinings, B.view all authors (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms. (pp. 163-188). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Empson, L., Cleaver, I. & Allen, J. (2013). Managing Partners and Management Professionals: Institutional Work Dyads in Professional Partnerships. Journal Of Management Studies, 50(5), pp. 808-844. doi: 10.1111/joms.12025

Empson, L. (2013). My Affair With the "Other": Identity Journeys Across the Research-Practice Divide. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22(2), pp. 229-248. doi: 10.1177/1056492612446068

Empson, L. (2012). Beyond dichotomies: A multi-stage model of governance in professional service firms. In: Reihlen, M. & Werr, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services. (pp. 274-294). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Ashley, L. & Empson, L. (2012). Differentiation and discrimination: Understanding social class and social exclusion in the UK's leading law firms. Human Relations, 66(2), pp. 219-244. doi: 10.1177/0018726712455833

Empson, L. (2007). Your partnership - Surviving and thriving in a changing world: the special nature of partnership. In: Empson, L. (Ed.), Managing the Modern Law Firm. (pp. 10-36). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X A Relational Approach to Impact: Reflections from a Lifetime ‘In the Field'. In: Thomas, H., Cornuel, E., Kleyn, N. & Wood, M.view all authors (Eds.), Women in, and around Business Schools. EFMD Research Volume, 3. . Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Howard-Grenville, J. & Empson, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8715-287X Three Ways to Prepare for the Future of Work. Harvard Business Review,