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1498
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Dennis A. Gioia is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their scholarly work spans multiple fields within social sciences, with a particular focus on business, management, and accounting. The scientist's research also encompasses subfields such as organizational behavior and human resource management, communication, social psychology, management of technology and innovation, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of their research include management and organizational studies, knowledge management and sharing, team dynamics and performance, entrepreneurship studies and influences, creativity in education and neuroscience, innovation and knowledge management, and design education and practice.

Dennis A. Gioia has contributed to academic discourse through publications in various journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Academy of Management Discoveries
  • Journal of Management Inquiry

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • Identity Transitions via Subtle Adaptive Sensemaking: The Empirical Pursuit of the Intangible (2022), published in Academy of Management Discoveries
  • Thinking Differently About Thinking Theoretically: Developing a Design-Centered Approach to Organizational Theorizing (2025), published in Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Response to Commentaries on "Leveraging a Recessive Narrative to Transform Joe Paterno's Image: Media Sensebreaking, Sensemaking, and Sensegiving during Scandal" (2020), published in Academy of Management Discoveries

Dennis A. Gioia frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Kevin G. Corley
  • Alexandra Rheinhardt
  • Claus Rerup
  • Ileana Stigliani
  • Derron G. Bishop

Their work examines complex organizational phenomena through various lenses such as adaptive sensemaking, theoretical thinking in organizational studies, and media narratives in the context of institutional scandals. This interdisciplinary approach integrates elements of social psychology and communication with core management theories and practices.

Best Publications

  • Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research: Notes on the Gioia Methodology

    Dennis A. Gioia;Kevin G. Corley;Aimee L. Hamilton

  • Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation

    Dennis A. Gioia;Kumar Chittipeddi

  • Organizational Identity, Image, and Adaptive Instability

    Dennis A. Gioia;Majken Schultz;Kevin G. Corley

  • Identity, Image, and Issue Interpretation: Sensemaking during Strategic Change in Academia.

    Dennis Arnold Gioia;James B. Thomas

  • Identity ambiguity and change in the wake of a corporate spin-off

    Kevin G. Corley;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Building Theory about Theory Building: What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?

    Kevin G. Corley;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Multiparadigm Perspectives on Theory Building

    Dennis A. Gioia;Evelyn Pitre

  • Strategic Sensemaking and Organizational Performance: Linkages Among Scanning, Interpretation, Action, and Outcomes

    James B. Thomas;Shawn M. Clark;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Symbolism and Strategic Change in Academia: The Dynamics of Sensemaking and Influence

    Dennis A. Gioia;James B. Thomas;Shawn M. Clark;Kumar Chittipeddi

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

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

  • Scripts in Organizational Behavior

    Dennis A. Gioia;Peter P. Poole

  • Forging an Identity: An Insider-outsider Study of Processes Involved in the Formation of Organizational Identity

    Dennis A. Gioia;Kristin N. Price;Aimee L. Hamilton;James B. Thomas

  • The Intersection of Organizational Identity, Knowledge, and Practice: Attempting Strategic Change Via Knowledge Grafting

    Rajiv Nag;Kevin G. Corley;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Behind the Mask: The Politics of Employee Appraisal

    Clinton O. Longenecker;Henry P. Sims;Dennis A. Gioia

  • From individual to organizational identity.

    Dennis A. Gioia

  • Re-Viewing Organizational Corruption

    Blake E. Ashforth;Dennis A. Gioia;Sandra L. Robinson;Linda K. Treviño

  • Mapping Strategic Thought.

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  • Strategic sensemaking and organizational performance: linkages among scanning, interpretation, action, and outcomes.

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  • Organizational Identity Formation and Change

    Dennis Arnold Gioia;Shubha D. Patvardhan;Aimeeg L. Hamilton;Kevin G. Corley

  • Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger

    Shawn M. Clark;Dennis A. Gioia;David J. Ketchen;James B. Thomas

  • The thinking organization

    Henry P. Sims;Dennis A. Gioia

  • Factors Influencing Creativity in the Domain of Managerial Decision Making

    Cameron M. Ford;Dennis A. Gioia

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin G. Corley
Kevin G. Corley Imperial College London
Henry P. Sims
Henry P. Sims University of Maryland, College Park
Majken Schultz
Majken Schultz Copenhagen Business School
Blake E. Ashforth
Blake E. Ashforth Arizona State University
Mary Jo Hatch
Mary Jo Hatch University of Virginia
Sally Maitlis
Sally Maitlis University of Oxford
Stephen P. Borgatti
Stephen P. Borgatti University of Kentucky
Brian K. Boyd
Brian K. Boyd City University of Hong Kong

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