Mihwa Seong
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Item type:Publication, Friend or fiend? Disentangling upward humor's (De)stabilizing effects on hierarchies(2023-10); ; Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Does gendered wording in job advertisements deter women from joining start-ups? A replication and extension of Gaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011)(2023-11); Simon ParkerGaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011: “GFK” hereafter) found that women perceive jobs to be less appealing when job adverts use masculine wording—a result they attributed to women's lower evaluations of “belongingness.” As masculine wording is used more often in male-dominated jobs, GFK concluded that gendered wording in job adverts may deter women from entering such jobs. In light of growing general interest in joining new ventures (“start-ups”), we replicate and extend GFK's study to compare start-ups and established firms. Interestingly, we find that GFK's original findings are replicated in the context of start-ups, but not in established firms. We propose and adduce evidence that the unique context of start-ups may prime women to respond especially sensitively to gendered wording, via positive expectancy violation.Type:journal articleJournal:Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalVolume:18Issue:2DOI:10.1002/sej.1489Scopus© Citations 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, More Inclusive Leader Networking via Playfulness and Sport(2026-05-07); ; ; ; Type:conference paperJournal:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A playful path to more professional equity? Networking across diversity via sport(2024-08); ; ; ; Leaders develop via all domains of their lives. Yet, leaders’ sports involvement has been largely overlooked despite its theoretical and practical relevance, particularly for social development. Moreover, the limited research on the downstream social consequences of leaders’ sports involvement reveals different effects for men and women leaders—even opposing effects for the latter. Thus, we integrate social cognitive theory from developmental psychology to make sense of these contradictory findings. We theorize that sports contexts facilitate women’s networking with higher-status (male) leaders through its playfulness (i.e., leisurely, spontaneous, and socially interactive). An archival study of 644 leaders’ Twitter/X posts shows that sports generate more engagement—especially men interacting with women leaders’ sports posts (Study 1). A qualitative study with 58 leaders suggests sports’ playfulness facilitates these interactions as well as networking, results that we also quantitatively validated using ChatGPT (Study 2). Two recall experiments (Ntotal = 1,076) showed women leaders’ networking in sports (vs. traditional) contexts was more playful, and more playful sports contexts facilitated women (vs. men) leaders’ networking across gender and status differences (Pilot Study, Study 3). Our results show that more playful sports contexts facilitate women leaders’ successful networking across gender and status diversity—an innovation helping to level the playing field of gendered social capital development and future leadership inequalities in organizations. These results advance our understanding of conventional ways of networking as not always strategic and planned while also adding to diversity research by showing that sports—often framed as exclusionary—can also be inclusive.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Diversity in Elite Leadership: Global Effects, New Outcome Variables, and Deep Dives Into Processes(2023); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Friend vs. fiend? A review of follower humor(2023); ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Flirting, jokes, and compliments: How female leaders shape a key source of entrepreneurial well-being(2023); ; ; Entrepreneurship is an intensely stressful journey that can undermine entrepreneurial well-being. While most research on entrepreneurial well-being has focused on individual characteristics as key antecedents, we examine the role of an overlooked but highly prevalent intra-team social experience on entrepreneur well-being: Social Sexual Behavior (SSB). To do so, we draw on interaction ritual theory to explain the mixed evidence of how these non-work-related behaviors with a sexual component (e.g., flirting, joking, and complimenting on physical appearances) affect worker well-being. That is, when SSB is frequent and part of the interaction ritual (i.e., accepted forms of behavior incorporated into scripted routine interactions that facilitates organizing social relations), SSB is positively associated with well-being. In contrast, if SSB is rare and not accepted as an interaction ritual, SSB is negatively associated with well-being, because SSB is flagged as a negative behavior that deviates from accepted forms of behavior and hinders social relations. By facilitating or hindering social relations, the frequency of experienced SSB at work predicts receiver well-being according to a U-shaped function. But given leaders’ critical influence on team norms and rituals, we examine how leaders shape SSB’s effects on entrepreneurial well-being and if this differs by leader gender. As female (vs. male) leaders may be more responsive to gendered interaction dynamics like SSB, we propose a moderating effect of female leadership on the previously hypothesized U-shaped effect of SSB on receiver well-being, such that the U-shape is more pronounced with greater shares of female leaders. Finally, because men may feel more negative emotions in post-#MeToo era mixed-gender interactions—perhaps especially male employees with female leaders—anxiety may be amplified (or mitigated) when female leaders problematize (or accommodate) SSB, such that the moderating effect of the share of female leaders on receiver well-being is stronger for male (vs. female) receivers. Analyses of an international sample of entrepreneurs from the 2018 GUESSS dataset (n=11,177) generally support our theorizing. A pair of experiments are also planned to causally replicate and extend these results. This research contributes to the entrepreneurship, leadership, and diversity literatures by clarifying the mixed effects of SSB on well-being in the literature with more precise, non-linear theorizing tested in the masculine context of entrepreneurship. This research also fits well with the conference theme by examining how leaders shape follower well-being, represented by co-owners and founders (respectively).Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Building Diverse and Inclusive Social Networks: New Theories and Empirical Evidence(2023); ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Should I stay or should I go? Effect of female representation in TMT on career choices of women employees(2023); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, More inclusive leader networking via playfulness and sport(2026-05); ; ; ; Engeler, IsabelleType:conference contribution