Call for papers - Workshop Leadership, Employee Well-Being, and Firm Performance

[Simone Valerie Häckl-Schermer]

Dear colleagues,

We invite junior researchers (PhD students, postdocs/assistant profs, recent associate professor) to apply for presentation slots at the workshop “Leadership, Employee Well-Being, and Firm Performance”, to be held in Salzburg, Austria, June 18–19, 2026.

The workshop is a small, research-focused meeting centered on presentations by leading scholars and selected junior researchers, with ample time for discussion. We are delighted that the following researchers have already confirmed their participation:

Raffaella Sadun, John Antonakis, Guido Friebel, Ingrid Haegele, Rachel Kranton, Heather Schofield, Anja Schöttner, Aloysius Siow, Dirk Sliwka, Matthias Sutter.

Scope

We welcome empirical work in organizational and personnel economics on leadership and middle management, including (but not limited to):

• employee well-being and retention/turnover,
• productivity and firm performance,
• managerial practices and incentives,
• supportive/directive leadership, management training, and implementation,
• field experiments/RCTs, administrative or personnel data, and credible quasi-experimental designs.

Logistics & funding

• We cover accommodation in Salzburg (June 17–20, 2026).
• Travel costs are not covered.

Submission:

• Deadline: December 31st
• Submission page: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1dp0MOclrWFnds481nTC9Wvs1RBA0SAVNOntOrEKYgwf-kw/viewform?usp=header
• We will notify you about our decision by January 31st

For questions, please contact simone.haeckl-schermer[at]uis.no

We look forward to your submissions!

Best regards,
Mari Rege and Simone Haeckl

Simone Haeckl, PhD

Associate Professor of Economics

University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway

simone.haec...@uis.no

Personal Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/simonehaeckl/

Synapse Lab: https://www.uis.no/nb/synapselab