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D-Index
68
Citations
41554
World Ranking
830
National Ranking
60

Overview

Cynthia Hardy is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans several areas within Business, Management, and Social Sciences, with a focus on Organizational Behavior, Sociology, Strategy, Communication, and Management Information Systems.

Their recent publications include:

  • Organizing Risk: Organization and Management Theory for the Risk Society, 2020, Academy of Management Annals
  • A New Methodology for Supply Chain Management: Discourse Analysis and its Potential for Theoretical Advancement, 2020, Journal of Supply Chain Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cynthia Hardy are:

  • Steve Maguire
  • Haridimos Tsoukas
  • Graham Dwyer
  • Vikram Bhakoo
  • Michael Power

The primary venues for their work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Annals
  • Human Relations
  • Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Organization Studies

Hardy has contributed to book literature, specifically published by Edward Elgar Publishing, including the book titled How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations (2022).

Their main fields of research consist of:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these areas, subfields addressed include:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Communication
  • Management Information Systems

The main topics covered by Hardy's work are:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Quality and Supply Management

Best Publications

  • Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction

    Nelson Phillips;Cynthia Hardy

  • Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada

    Steve Maguire;Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • Discourse and Institutions

    Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy

  • Handbook of Organization Studies

    Larry Hubbell;Stewart R. Clegg;Cynthia Hardy;Walter R. Nord

  • Sustained product innovation in large, mature organizations: Overcoming innovation-to-organization problems.

    Deborah Dougherty;Cynthia Hardy

  • Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency: An Introduction to the Special Issue:

    Raghu Garud;Cynthia Hardy;Steve Maguire

  • Institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration: The emergence of proto-institutions

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy;Nelson Phillips

  • Resources, Knowledge and Influence: The Organizational Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration*

    Cynthia Hardy;Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity

    Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence;David Grant

  • Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: the Decline of DDT

    Steve Maguire;Cynthia Hardy

  • Inter-organizational collaboration and the dynamics of institutional fields

    Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy

  • Discourse as a Strategic Resource

    Cynthia Hardy;Ian Palmer;Nelson Phillips

  • Strategies of Engagement: Lessons From the Critical Examination of Collaboration and Conflict in An Interorganizational Design

    Cynthia Hardy;Nelson Phillips

  • Some dare call it power

    C. Hardy;S.R. Clegg

  • The Power Behind Empowerment: Implications for Research and Practice

    Cynthia Hardy;Sharon Leiba-O'Sullivan

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse

    D Grant;C Hardy;C Oswick;LL Putnam

  • Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management Theory

    Mats Alvesson;Cynthia Hardy;Bill Harley

  • DISCOURSE, FIELD-CONFIGURING EVENTS, AND CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL FIELDS: NARRATIVES OF DDT AND THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION

    Cynthia Hardy;Steve Maguire

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies

    Stewart R. Clegg;Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence;Walter R. Nord

  • Handbook of Organization Studies

    Stephen Wood;Stewart Clegg;Cynthia Hardy;Walter R. Nord

  • Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems

    Cynthia Hardy

Frequent Co-Authors

David Grant
David Grant Griffith University
Linda L. Putnam
Linda L. Putnam University of California, Santa Barbara
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

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