The Goff Strategic Leadership Center at the David Eccles School of Business and the Strategic Management Review (SMR) sponsors an annual conference on strategic leadership in Salt Lake City, Utah. Traditionally held in January, this conference aims to expand conventional conceptions of strategic leadership and develop a set of papers to be submitted to the SMR review process for a special issue. The conference brings together academics from around the world, and is by invitation only.
Conference Hosts
Todd Zenger
Academic Director, Goff Strategic Leadership Center, N. Eldon Tanner Presidential Professor of Strategy and Strategic Leadership, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Editor-in-Chief, Strategy Science
Jackson Nickerson
Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy (Emeritus), Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School
2023 Conference Highlights and Paper Summaries
Video Gallery
The 2023 Strategic Leadership Conference was a resounding success. Attendees from 15 universities and countries including the Netherlands and Italy engaged with new research around the nuanced dimensions of strategic leadership, as well as refined their own research through discussion and feedback. View videos of each research topic below.
An African View Towards Strategic Leadership
Howard Jean-Denis, Connie James
A Critical Intervention: Towards a Purpose Perspective
Dilek Uslu, Brian Tjemkes
A Microfoundations Perspective of Strategic Leadership
Chou-Yu (Joey) Tsai, Minjong Jun, Jason D. Marshal
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? Pathways for Strategic Leadership
Martijn Overman, Daniel Gelsing, Xavier Martin
Imagination: The Cognitive Microfoundations of Strategic Management
Shubha Patvardhan
Managerial Prosocial Concerns, Exit Thresholds, and Risk-Taking
Daniel Keum, Lucy Liu
Searching for Value in Disruptive Environments
Turanay Caner, Peiyuan Huang, Ravi Madhavan
Strategic Leadership as Weltanschauung
Paul Godfrey
Strategic Leadership of Dynamic Capabilities: An Attention-based View
Deepak Somaya, Geoff Love, Willie Ocasio
The Role of Hubristic and Servant Attitudes in Strategic Leadership
Giovanni Dagnino, Massimo Picone, Anna Mina
A Theory-based View of Strategic Leadership
Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Andrea Pignataro