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Aston University

Team

Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management
Michael Smets, Lecturer in Strategy
Paul Spee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jane Lê, Lecturer in Work & Organisational Studies
Bruno Oliveira, PhD Student
Sofia Topakas, PhD candidate
Gary Burke, Research Fellow
Stathis Tapinos, Lecturer in Strategic Management
Adriana Allocato, PhD student

Professional Roles

Paula Jarzabkowski Since 2002: Co-founder of strategy-as-practice community and website. Coordinator of the EGOS Standing Work Group on “Strategizing: Activity and Practice” (with J. Balogun, P.-M. Laine, A. Langley and D. Seidl). In 2010, nominating Committee and Foundation Member of Special Interest Group on Strategy-as-Practice of the Academy of Management, launched in 2010 (with J. Balogun and R. Whittington).
Paul Spee 2005 and 2009: administrator of the strategy-as-practice website.
Jane Lê Since 2009: Co-convenor of the EGOS Standing Work Group on “Strategizing: Activity and Practice”. Co-convenor of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management conference, 2010. 2010-2013: SAP SIG Representative.

Projects

  • How to take risks

  • 2009-2011: ‘How to take risks: An ethnographic comparison of face and electronic communication in the Lloyd’s of London and Bermuda reinsurance markets’. Jarzabkowski, Smets and Spee. Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Insurance Intellectual Capital Initiative (IICI).

  • Strategic Management Education in Practice

  • 2008-2009: ‘Strategic Management Education in Practice: Patterns and Drivers of Adoption in Business School Alumni’. Jarzabkowski and Giulietti. ESRC.

  • Strategizing in pluralistic contexts

  • 2006-2008: ‘Strategizing in pluralistic contexts; ethnographic studies in regulated infrastructure firms’. Jarzabkowski and Lê. ESRC.

  • The reciprocity of work and institutions

  • 2003-2008: The reciprocity of work and institutions. Research blending literatures on strategy-as-practice and neoinstitutionalism to understand the micro-foundations of institutional processes in everyday working practice. M. Smets, with R. Greenwood and T. Morris.

  • Recent/ Current PhD Research

  • 2009. Dr Morgan Potter. Topic: ‘Enacting Regulated Strategic Environments’. 2010. Dr Paul Spee. Topic: ‘Strategy formation as a communication process’. 2008/09 intake. Mr Bruno Oliveira: Topic: ‘Management Education as an Applied Science: The Use of Strategy Tools’. 2008/09 intake. Ms Sofia Topakas: Topic: ‘Discourses of strategic change in the energy sector’.

Publications

2010
Paula Jarzabkowski (2010). An activity-theory approach to Strategy as Practice. In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, & Eero Vaara (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (pp. 127-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010
Paula Jarzabkowski, & Sarah Kaplan (2010). Taking strategy-as-practice across the Atlantic. In Joel Baum , & Joseph Lampel (Eds.), The Globalization of Strategy Research (pp. 51-71). Bradford, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
2009
Paula Jarzabkowski, & Julia Balogun (2009). The Practice and Process of Delivering Integration through Strategic Planning. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 46(8), 1255-1288.
2009
Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen, & Andrew H. Van de Ven (2009). Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism. In Thomas B. Lawrence, Bernard Leca, & Roy Suddaby (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations (pp. 284-316). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009
Paula Jarzabkowski, & Andreas Paul Spee (2009). Strategy-as-practice: A review and future directions for the field. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS (Special Issue SI), 11(1), 69-95.
2008
Paula Jarzabkowski, & Richard Whittington (2008). Hard to disagree, mostly. Strategic Organization, 6(1), 101-106.
2008
Paula Jarzabkowski (2008). Shaping strategy as a structuration process. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 51(4), 621-650.
2008
Paula Jarzabkowski, & Richard Whittington (2008). A strategy-as-practice approach to strategy research and education. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(4), 282-286.
2008
Paula Jarzabkowski, & David Seidl (2008). The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy. ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 29(11), 1391-1426.
2007
Paula Jarzabkowski, & John Sillince (2007). A rhetoric-in-context approach to shaping commitment to multiple strategic goals. Organization Studies, 28(10), 1639-1665.
2007
Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun, & David Seidl (2007). Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective. HUMAN RELATIONS, 60(1), 5-27.
2006
David Seidl, Julia Balogun, & Paula Jarzabkowski (2006). Stratégie comme pratique: recentrage de la recherche en management stratégique. In Damon Golsorkhi (Ed.), La fabrique de la stratégie. Une perspective multidimensionnelle (pp. 1-7). Paris: Vuibert.
2005
Paula Jarzabkowski (2005). Strategy as Practice: An Activity Based Approach. London: SAGE.
2004
Paula Jarzabkowski (2004). Strategy as practice: Recursiveness, adaptation, and practices-in-use. ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 25(4), 529-560.
2003
Richard Whittington, Paula Jarzabkowski, Michael Mayer, Eleonore Mounoud, Janine Nahapiet, & Linda Rouleau (2003). Taking strategy seriously - Responsibility and reform for an important social practice. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY, 12(4), 396-409.
2003
Paula Jarzabkowski (2003). Strategic practices: An activity theory perspective on continuity and change. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 40(1), 23-55.

Events

2010 Conference on “Control-as-Practice”. International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. Paris, France. Keynote: Yvon Pesqueux.
2008 Symposium on “Studying workshops and meetings”. Aston Business School, Birmingham. 28th April 2008. Keynote: Curtis LeBaron (Brigham Young University)
2008 Advanced Institute of Management workshop on “Actions, practices and institutions”. Aston Business School, Birmingham. 28th April 2008. Keynote: Royston Greenwood (University of Alberta)
2007 Advanced Institute of Management Capacity Building workshop on “Engaging with practice: doing strategy-as-practice research”. Aston Business School, Birmingham, 12th March 2007. Keynote: Julia Balogun (Lancaster University)
2006 Advanced Institute of Management Capacity Building workshop on “Studying practice empirically”. Aston Business School, Birmingham, 17th March 2006. Keynote: Wanda Orlikowski (Massachusetts Institute of Management)

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