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Ann Langley

Ann Langley

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
65
Citations
34631
World Ranking
394
National Ranking
20

Overview

Ann Langley is affiliated with HEC Montréal in Canada and has specialized in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research predominantly focuses on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Accounting and Organizational Management, Management Theory and Practice, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, as well as Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies.

Ann Langley has contributed a number of papers to academic literature, with recent publications including:

  • "What Makes a Process Theoretical Contribution?" (2020) in Organization Theory
  • "Making Interviews Meaningful" (2020) in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
  • "A Curated Debate: On Using 'Templates' in Qualitative Research" (2022) in Journal of Management Inquiry
  • "Temporal Work: The Strategic Organization of Time" (2022) in Strategic Organization
  • "Exploring the strategy-identity nexus" (2020) in Strategic Organization

Their frequent co-authors include Juliane Reinecke, Paula Jarzabkowski, Amit Nigam, Davide Ravasi, and Roy Suddaby.

Ann Langley's research has been published in various academic venues, with numerous contributions to:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Strategic Organization
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Organization Studies

Best Publications

  • Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data

    Ann Langley

  • Process studies of change in organization and management : unveiling temporality, activity, and flow

    Ann Langley;Clive Smallman;Haridimos Tsoukas;Andrew H. Van de Ven

  • Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data

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  • The Dynamics of Collective Leadership and Strategic Change in Pluralistic Organizations

    Jean-Louis Denis;Lise Lamothe;Ann Langley

  • Finding Theory–Method Fit: A Comparison of Three Qualitative Approaches to Theory Building:

    Joel Gehman;Vern L. Glaser;Kathleen M. Eisenhardt;Denny Gioia

  • Strategy as Practice: Research Directions and Resources

    Gerry Johnson;Ann Langley;Leif Melin;Richard Whittington

  • Opening up Decision Making: The View from the Black Stool

    Ann Langley;Henry Mintzberg;Patricia Pitcher;Elizabeth Posada

  • Strategizing in pluralistic contexts: Rethinking theoretical frames:

    Jean-Louis Denis;Ann Langley;Linda Rouleau

  • Leadership in the Plural

    Jean-Louis Denis;Ann Langley;Viviane Sergi

  • Explaining diffusion patterns for complex health care innovations.

    Jean-Louis Denis;Yann Hébert;Ann Langley;Daniel Lozeau

  • Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn

    Christopher Fenton;Ann Langley

  • Process thinking in strategic organization

    Ann Langley

  • THE DYNAMICS OF COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC CHANGE IN PLURALISTIC ORGANIZATIONS.

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  • Introducing perspectives on process organization studies

    A. Langley;Haridimos Tsoukas

  • Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management

    Ann Langley;Chahrazad Abdallah

  • In search of rationality: the purposes behind the use of formal analysis in organizations.

    Ann Langley

  • The SAGE handbook of process organization studies

    Ann Langley;Haridimos Tsoukas

  • Leadership and Strategic Change under Ambiguity

    Jean-Louis Denis;Ann Langley;Linda Cazale

  • Approaching the Conceptual Leap in Qualitative Research

    Malvina Klag;Ann Langley

  • Leadership in the Plural

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  • Studying processes in and around organizations.

    Ann Langley

  • The Logic of Institutional Logics: Insights From French Pragmatist Sociology

    Charlotte Cloutier;Ann Langley

  • Strategy as Practice : Research Models and Resources

    Gerry Johnson;Ann Langley;Leif Melin;Richard Whittington

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Denis
Jean-Louis Denis University of Toronto
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Richard J. Whittington
Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney
Trish Reay
Trish Reay University of Alberta
Gerry Johnson
Gerry Johnson Lancaster University
Paula Jarzabkowski
Paula Jarzabkowski University of Queensland
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Andrew H. Van de Ven University of Minnesota
Raghu Garud
Raghu Garud Pennsylvania State University
Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Davide Nicolini
Davide Nicolini University of Warwick

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