Mihwa Seong
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  • Publication
    Diversity in Elite Leadership: Global Effects, New Outcome Variables, and Deep Dives Into Processes
    ( 2023)
    Alison M. Konrad
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    Yang Yang
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    Diana Bilimoria
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    Cynthia E. Clark
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    Ryan Miller
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    Martha L. Maznevski
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    Mihwa Seong orcid-logo
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    Jamie Gloor orcid-logo
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    Amanda Shantz
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    Philipp Sieger
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    Karlygash Assylkhan
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    Colin Birkhead
    Type: conference paper
    Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings
    DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.14107symposium
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117935
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    Flirting, jokes, and compliments: How female leaders shape a key source of entrepreneurial well-being
    ( 2023)
    Mihwa Seong orcid-logo
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    Jamie Gloor orcid-logo
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    Amanda Shantz
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    Philipp Sieger
    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
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117613
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    Building Diverse and Inclusive Social Networks: New Theories and Empirical Evidence
    ( 2023)
    Mihwa Seong orcid-logo
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    Jamie Gloor orcid-logo
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    Raina Brands
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    Ko Kuwabara
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    Paul Ingram
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    Tatiana Lluent
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    Gianluca Carnabuci
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    Eugenia Bajet Mestre
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    Isabelle Engeler
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    Meredith Woehler
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    Julia Stevenson-street
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    Courtney Hart
    Type: conference paper
    Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.14965symposium
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117934