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Department of Business Administration Chair of Organization and Management

Distinguished Guests

Mats Alvesson

Mats Alvesson

 

Mats Alvesson is professor of business administration at the University of Lund and the University of Queensland Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Lund. His research interests include critical theory, gender, power, professional services firms, organizational culture, leadership, identity, organizational image, qualitative methods, and philosophy of science.

Course: 
Introduction to Critical Management Studies
October 4th, 2010

Julia Balogun

Julia Balogun

 

Julia Balogun's research centres on strategy-as-practice in strategy development, strategic change and renewal, predominantly within large mature corporations. She has a particular interest in how large corporations can be transformed to retain and regain competitive advantage. She also has a concern for how strategic activity is initiated and championed at multiple levels within organizations, exploring the nature of strategic work for both senior executives and middle managers. Her research in these areas has won international recognition through acceptance in top ranked international journals, as well as contributing to the founding and establishment of the strategy-as-practice field. She employs a wide range of qualitative methods using my previous experience as a consultant to work collaboratively with organisations in a way that enables the co-production and advancement of practitioner and theoretical knowledge about strategy and change. Her research is published in a number of leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies and Organization Studies.

Course: 
Qualitative Data Analysis
October 19th-20th, 2015

Max Bergman

Max Bergman

 

Max Bergman is Professor and Chair of Social Research and Methodology at the University of Basel. His main main focus is on sustainability and global studies, particularly the interdependence of society, business, and government in a globalized world. In pursuing policy-relevant and change-oriented research relating to societal sustainability, he and his team are working on a new social science research approach, entitled Social Transitions Research (STR). He teaches and publishes on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. 

Course: 
Theorizing and Writing Qualitative Work
November 3rd-5th, 2014

Nils Brunsson

Nils

 

Nils Brunsson is professor of management and affiliated with Uppsala University and Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research) at the Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published numerous articles and authored, co-authored or edited thirty books in the field of management and organization studies. He has studied organizational decision-making, administrative reform, standardization and the organization of markets.  Brunsson has received several awards for his research and teaching and he is an honorary member of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS).

Course: 
Organization outside Organization
May 11th-13th, 2022

Stefano Brusoni

Stefano

 

Stefano Brusoni is professor of technology and innovation management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich). He coordinates the TIMGROUP - the new Chair of Technology and Innovation Management at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC).  His research interests focus on the emergence of alternative product architectures and how they explain firms’ evolutionary dynamics, in terms of their vertical boundaries and long-term viability. Stefano is an Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Strategic Organization.

Course: 
Mixed Methods
November 2nd/3rd/9th, 2021

Stewart Clegg

Stewart Clegg

 

Stewart Clegg is an Australian professor in the Organization Studies field and is the author and editor of over forty monographs, textbooks, encyclopaedia, and handbooks including the Sage handbook of power (2009) and Sage directions in organisation studies (2009). Stewart's research interests include organisation and management theory and the theory of power, although he has written on other topics including 'food', 'strategy', 'modernity' and 'gossip'. He sits on Editorial Boards for research journals and is Editor of the AiOS (Advances in Organization Studies) for Benjamins, the European and American publishers. Stewart has also acted as consultant to international newspapers, such as the British Sunday Times and the Australian Financial Review, for whom he has devised the methodology for their "Power Lists", as well as to universities, business firms, and health services.

 

Course: 
Power and Organization
June 26th-28th, 2017

Joep Cornelissen

Joep

 

Joep Cornelissen is Professor of Corporate Communication and Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The main focus of his research involves studies of the role of corporate and managerial communication in the context of innovation, entrepreneurship and change. In addition, he also has an interest in questions of scientific reasoning and theory development in management and organization theory.

 

Course: 
Developing Theory
November 3rd-5th, 2025

David Courpasson

David Courpasson

 

David Courpasson is a professor of sociology at EMLYON Business School and a researcher at the EMLYON Business School OCE Research Centre. He is editor-in-chief of Organization Studies. His primary research interests focus on the dynamics of domination within bureaucracies and postbureaucracies. He is currently investigating processes of resistance in organizations and the influence of occupational, organizational, and community contexts on the accomplishment of entrepreneurial work and emancipation.

Course: 
One-day Seminar on Power Theory
April 8th, 2013

Luciana D'Adderio

Luciana D'Adderio

 

Luciana D'Adderio is a Reader in Management in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship where she also acts as Knowledge Exchange Director. Her expertise in Technology and Innovation Management and background in Science and Technology, provides her with a strong focus on the study of technology and how it shapes organisational structure, culture, work practices and change, topics which I analyse from an empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed social science perspective. Her scholarly publications include research articles in leading Organisational, Innovation and Information Systems journals (including Organization Science, Organization Studies, Information and Organizations, Accounting Organization and Society) as well as a monograph with Elgar (2004) titled ‘Inside the Virtual Product’.


Course: 
Practices, Artefacts and Materiality
May 17th-18th, 2017

Colin Eden

Colin Eden

 

Colin Eden is Professor of Management Science and Strategic Management, Vice Dean and Director of the International Division at the University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. His major research interests are into the processes of making strategy; the relationship between operational decision making practices and their strategic consequences; the use of group decision support in the analysis and making of strategy; managerial and organisational cognition; 'soft OR' modelling approaches and methodologies, including particular emphasis on the role of cognitive mapping; the process and practice of 'action research'; and the modelling of the behaviour of large projects disruptions and delays, including issues of the dynamics of productivity changes, and learning curves.

Course: 
Using a Group Support System to Facilitate Making Strategy
October 31st, 2012

Martha Feldman

Martha Feldman

 

Martha Feldman is the Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research on organizational routines explores the role of performance and agency in creating, maintaining and altering these fundamental organizational phenomena. She is a Senior Editor for Organization Science and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, International Public Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management.

Courses: 
Qualitative Data Analysis
September 10th - 13th, 2012

Power
May 24th-26th, 2023

Karen Golden-Biddle

Karen Golden-Biddle

 

Karen Golden-Biddle is Senior Associate Dean, Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University School of Management. She studies organizational and system transformation, and is especially interested in highly professionalized settings such as healthcare and universities with socially significant missions.

Course: 
Theorizing and Writing Qualitative Work
March 6th-8th, 2013

Royston Greenwood

Royston Greenwood

 

Royston Greenwood is the Telus Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Business, University of Alberta. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading North American and European journals and is currently the editor of The Academy of Management Annals. He is a former Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management; and in 2013 was named that year’s Honorary Member by the European Group for Organization Studies. His work has appeared in most major journals. He has twice won the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal. In 2012 he won the Greif Prize for Research Impact from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, and in 2011 received the Scholarly Contribution Award from the Administrative Science Quarterly. His research interests focus upon institutional and organizational change, although recently he has begun to explore the institutional foundations of corporate fraud.

Courses:

Current Topics in Organization Theory and Strategy: New Developments in Institutional Theory

April 25th-27th, 2018

September 24th-26th, 2014

 

Loizos Heracleous

Loizos Heracleous

 

Before joining Warwick Business School, Loizos was Reader in Strategy at the Said Business School and Official Fellow of Templeton College at Oxford University, and Associate Professor of Business Policy at the National University of Singapore. He has authored five books and over 50 articles published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. His research interests are in between strategic management, organisational discourse and organisational change and development.

Course: 
Individual Feedbacks on Research Projects
May 21st-25th, 2012

Tor Hernes

Tor Hernes

 

Tor Hernes, Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School and Adjunct Professor at USN Business School, University of South-Eastern Norway, is an award-winning researcher who has previously published pioneering works on the topics of organization, process, and time. He directs the Centre for Organization and Time at Copenhagen Business School.


Course: 
Organization and Time
April 14th-16th, 2021

Jennifer Howard-Grenville

Jen

 


Jennifer Howard-Grenville is Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include business transformation for sustainability, organisational change, organisational culture, identity and routines, and future of work. She has conducted in-depth qualitative studies in a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, apparel, and energy, and has published more than 40 academic journal articles and several books.


Course: 
Reading, Doing, and Writing Qualitative Work in MOS
October 2nd-4th, 2024

Anne Huff

Anne Huff

 

Anne Huff is Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich, Germany. She was Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), a UK wide management research initiative with offices based at the London Business School, and continues to be a visiting AIM fellow at LBS. She earned her PhD (management) from Northwestern University. Her research interests focus on sustained innovation and strategic change; both are seen as dynamic processes of interaction among firms and as cognitive processes affected by the interaction of individuals over time.

Course:
Designing Research for Publication
May 18th - 19th, 2009

Paula Jarzabkowski

Paula Jarzabkowski

 

Paula Jarzabkowski is Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School and an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Ghoshal Fellow. Her research focuses on the social practices of strategy making, particularly in regulated, professional service and financial risk-taking contexts. Her other research interest is in the relevance debate and the application of management theory to practice.

Courses:

Qualitative Data Analysis
November 20th - 22nd, 2017

Qualitative Methods
October 19th - 21st, 2009

Tomi Laamanen

Tomi Laamanen

 

Tomi Laamanen is chair holder and professor of strategic management, and Director of the Institute of Management & Strategy (IoMS) at the University of St. Gallen. Tomi Laamanen holds PhDs in Finance and Strategy and until his appointment at the HSG in 2011, he served as Managing Director of the Strategy Institute of Aalto University in Finland and was a visiting professor at St.Petersburg State University. Tomi is Academic Director of the Master Program in Strategy and International Management (SIM) and of the PhD Program in General Management. He is a board member and treasurer of the Strategic Management Society, editor-in-chief of the Long Range Planning journal and editorial board member of many other journals. Being a member of the supervisory board and strategy consultant, he cooperates with international companies in various industries.

 

Course:

Cognition, Attention, and Strategic Issue Management
May 22nd to 24th, 2019

 

Martin Kornberger

Martin Kornberger

 

Martin Kornberger is Associate Professor at School of Design and School of Management, UTS and Permanent Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2002. After a decade in Sydney, he currently lives in Vienna and works at Copenhagen Business School. He has contributed to the fields of organization theory, strategy, accounting and branding. He has written several books, including Brand Society, which explores how brands transform practices of production and consumption (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Course:
Strategy as Performative Practice
April 17th, 2013

Ann Langley

Ann Langley

 

Ann Langley is the Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings and a professor of management at HEC Montréal, where she obtained her Ph.D. Her research focuses on strategic change, leadership, innovation, and the use of management tools in complex organizations with an emphasis on processual research approaches.

Course:
Publishing qualitative research
December 17-18th, 2015

Studying processes in and around organizations
September 29th, 2010

Jane Le

Jane

 

Jane is Professor of Strategic Management at WHU Business School, Germany. Her research explores strategy in complex settings, particularly how organizations manage multiple competing goals. Jane is on the editorial boards of Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, and Organizational Research Methods (Associate Editor 2020-2024). She is internationally recognized for her work on strategic complexity and how organizations manage multiple competing goals.


Course:
Qualitative Methods
November 4th-6th, 2020

Feng Liu

Feng Liu

 

Feng Liu is Assistant Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Her research interests focus on top management team and board team strategizing activities and emotion in organizations. Her recent publications include “Emotional dynamics and strategizing processes: A study of strategic conversations in top team meetings” (Journal of Management Studies, 2014, with S. Maitlis.)

Course:
Research on emotions
May 11th, 2015

Michael Lounsbury

Michael Lounsbury

 

Michael Lounsbury is Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology at the University of Alberta, and expert in innovation and institutions. Previously, he was a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University. He is editor-in-chief of Research in the Sociology of Organizations, co-editor of Organization Studies, and Associate Editor of Academy of Management Annals.

Course:
Origins and Evolution of New institutionalist Thought
April 25th, 2012

Sally Maitlis

Sally Maitlis

 

Sally Maitlis is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Her research examines how people make sense of important, challenging and sometimes painful issues at work. Her studies of these sensemaking processes highlight the emotional side of organizational life, in individuals, work groups, top management teams and boards of directors. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Organizational Science, and Organizational Studies. Sally specializes in qualitative research, closely observing individual, team and organizational processes as they unfold in real time, and analyzing these processes through talk and text. She is a former Associate Editor of Non-Traditional Research at the Journal of Management Inquiry, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Canadian Journal of the Administrative Sciences, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Management Inquiry.

Course:
„Sense-making in Organizations“
May 7th-9th, 2014

Bill McKinley

William McKinley is currently Rehn Professor of Management at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He received his PhD in organizational sociology from Columbia University. His research interests are organizational restructuring and downsizing, organizational change, organizational decline, epistemological issues in organizational research, and the history, sociology, and philosophy of organization science.

Course:
Writing for Scholarly Publication
June 9th, 2009
May 18th, May 24th, June 1st & June 8th, 2011

Davide Nicolini

Davide Nicolini

 

Davide Nicolini is Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School. His work has appeared in journals such as Organisation Science, Organisation Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, and Social Science and Medicine. From 2009 he is Editor of Management Learning. His recent research focuses on the development of a practice-based approach to the study of organizational phenomena and its implications for the understanding of knowing, collaboration and change in organizations. He is also interested in organisational reflection processes and the application and development of action based approaches.

Courses:
Practice theory
November 22nd, 2012

ABV and Practice Theory
May 27th-30th, 2024

Linda Rouleau

Linda Rouleau

 

Linda Rouleau is Professor of Business Administration at the HEC Montréal and co-director of the Strategy as Practice Study Group. Her main focus is on strategy-as-practice, organization theories, narratives of practice, middle managers, organizational restructuring, pluralistic contexts and permanently failing organizations. She was one of the main actors in developing and popularizing the concept of strategy as practice, and co-directed the Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice, the major reference in this research field.

Course: Organizational Ethnography in Practice
December 4th-6th, 2019

Theodore Schatzki

Theodore Schatzki

 

Ted Schatzki is Senior Associate Dean (Dean of Faculty) in the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Philosophy and Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA. His research and teaching interests lie in the theory of social life, including social ontology, theory of action, the philosophy of social science, and 20th-century continental philosophy. He is the author of four books: Social Practices (1996), The Site of the Social (2002), Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space (2007) and The Timespace of Human Activity (2010). In addition, he is author of numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and various topics in philosophy of action, social theory, and continental philosophy. Schatzki has been a research fellow of the Fulbright Commission and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Course:
A practice-theoretical perspective on organizations
September 7th to 9th 2015

Anne Smith

Anne Smith

 

Anne Smith is Professor of Business, Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her teaching focuses on why organizations succeed, become stagnate and/or fail. In research, she focuses on the practice of qualitative research, specifically data analysis of interviews and photographs. Her research has been published in many management and organizational journals, such as Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Journal of Management Inquiry.

Course:
Novel and Practical Approaches to Analyze Qualitative Data
October 24th to 26th 2022

Hari Tsoukas

Hari Tsoukas

 

Hari Tsoukas holds the Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management at the Department of Public and Business Administration, University of Cyprus, and is professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He received his Ph.D. from the Manchester Business School. His research interests include knowledge-based perspectives on organizations, organizational becoming, practical reason in management, and epistemological issues in organizational research.

Course:
Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Management
Research: Process, Practice and Small-N Research Designs
December 2nd - 4th, 2009

Eero Vaara

Eero Vaara

 

Eero Vaara (Ph.D. Econ) is a Professor of Organization and Impact at the University of Oxford. His research interests focus on organizational, strategic and institutional change, strategic practices and processes, multinational corporations and globalization, management history, management education, and methodological and philosophical issues. He is well known for his work on discursive and narrative approaches. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Annals; the Academy of Management Journal; the Academy of Management Review;  the Journal of Management Studies; Organization; Organization Science; Organization Studies; the Scandinavian Journal of Management; Strategic Management Journal; and Strategic Organization.


Course: 
Discursive and Narrative Approaches
October 3rd-5th, 2016

Klaus Weber

Prof Klaus Weber

 

Klaus Weber is an Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University. His research uses cultural and institutional analysis to understand globalization, the environmental movement and corporate social responsibility. His research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review.

Course:
Introduction to Social Movement
December 13th, 2012

Richard Whittington

Richard

 

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School where he has headed the Strategy, Innovation and International Business Area three times and served as Deputy Director. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, the University of Toulouse and the University of Technology Sydney. He has published singly or jointly eleven books, including a history of strategy: ‘Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today’ (OUP, 2019). He is committed to teaching, with his co-authored textbook ‘Exploring Strategy’ ranked by the Financial Times 2021 Teaching Power index as the most influential strategy textbook worldwide (recorded on nearly 3,000 course syllabi).

Course:
Practices, Processes, Routines and Institutions
April 21st - 23rd, 2020

Dvora Yanow

Dvora Yanow

 

Dvora Yanow is Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Political Science Department, University of Amsterdam. Her research has been shaped by an overall interest in the communication of meaning in organizational and policy settings.

Course:
Seminar Series on Organizational Ethnography
May 25-27th, 2011
Nov 9th-11th, 2011

Tammar Zilber

Tammar

 

Tammar B. Zilber is a Full Professor in the Organizational Behavior Department at the Business School, and currently serves as head of the Business School’s BA program and the Organizational Behavior Department. Additionally, she is an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Journal, a member of the Editorial Review Board for Organization Studies, and an elected board member for the European Group for Organization Studies.

Course:
Theorizing and Writing Qualitative Work
September 26th-28th, 2023