EBS experts: Prof Myriam Bechtoldt as guest speaker at the Bauer Pharma Symposium

Myriam Bechtold, EBS Professor of Leadership, will be speaking at the Bauer Pharma Symposium on the topic of power. A decisive social good is called power. According to Max Weber, power is an opportunity to assert one’s own will within a social relationship, even in the face of opposition, regardless of what this opportunity is based on. Striving for power can be found everywhere: lobbyists in the health care system, company directors and managers in pharmaceutical/health care companies, or, for example, physicians vis-à-vis pharmacists, who aim for a higher valuation of their institution or professional group through claims to power. It is about elevation or subjugation and predators. Interactional power today is about questions like: should one show one’s power and assert oneself? As a manager, should one downplay one’s power and be more successful? Can an industry even be thriving without lobbying power? Is non-threatening or threatening the way to a successful deal? Does digitization lead to more or less power or new power constructions? Or does power tend to decrease?