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Paula Jarzabkowski

Paula Jarzabkowski

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
20467
World Ranking
536
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Paula Jarzabkowski is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in fields related to business, management, and accounting. Their research spans subfields including organizational behavior and human resource management, management science and operations research, strategy and management, sociology and political science, as well as economics and econometrics.

The main areas of their research focus on management and organizational studies, complex systems and decision making, innovation and knowledge management, evaluation and performance assessment, accounting and organizational management, insurance and financial risk management, and information systems theories and implementation.

Recent publications include:

  • "Completing the Adaptive Turn: An Integrative View of Strategy Implementation," 2020, Academy of Management Annals
  • "It's Practice. But is it Strategy? Reinvigorating strategy-as-practice by rethinking consequentiality," 2021, Organization Theory
  • "From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions," 2022, Human Relations
  • "Enabling Rapid Financial Response to Disasters: Knotting and Reknotting Multiple Paradoxes in Interorganizational Systems," 2021, Academy of Management Journal
  • "Middle Managers' Struggle Over Their Subject Position in Open Strategy Processes," 2021, Journal of Management Studies

Jarzabkowski frequently collaborates with other scholars, with prominent co-authors including Konstantinos Chalkias, Rebecca Bednarek, David Seidl, Eugenia Cacciatori, and Mustafa Kavas.

The scholar's work often appears in notable publication venues such as Academy of Management Proceedings, Strategic Organization, Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, and Journal of Management Inquiry.

Among professional recognitions, Paula Jarzabkowski holds the distinction of Dean Fellow from the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective

    Paula A. Jarzabkowski;Julia Balogun;David Seidl

  • Strategy as Practice: An Activity Based Approach

    Paula A. Jarzabkowski

  • Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use

    Paula Jarzabkowski

  • Strategy‐as‐practice: A review and future directions for the field

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Andreas Paul Spee

  • Strategic practices: an activity theory perspective on continuity and change

    Paula Jarzabkowski

  • Shaping Strategy as a Structuration Process

    Paula Jarzabkowski

  • Institutional Work

    Unknown

  • Strategy tools-in-use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Sarah Kaplan

  • The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

    Paula A. Jarzabkowski;David Seidl

  • Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd’s of London: Balancing Conflicting-yet-Complementary Logics in Practice

    Michael Smets;Paula Jarzabkowski;Gary T. Burke;Paul Spee

  • Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Jane K Lê;Andrew H Van de Ven

  • Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity

    Michael Smets;Paula Jarzabkowski

  • Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking and Power

    Julia Christine Balogun;Claus Jacobs;Paula Jarzabkowski;Paula Jarzabkowski;Saku Mantere

  • Strategy tools as boundary objects

    Andreas Paul Spee;Paula Jarzabkowski

  • Toward a Theory of Coordinating: Creating Coordinating Mechanisms in Practice

    Paula A. Jarzabkowski;Jane K. Lê;Martha S. Feldman

  • Strategic planning as communicative process

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  • Strategizing and organizing in pluralistic contexts

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Evelyn Fenton

  • The Practice and Process of Delivering Integration through Strategic Planning

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Julia Balogun

  • Taking Strategy Seriously Responsibility and Reform for an Important Social Practice

    Richard Whittington;Paula Jarzabkowski;Michael Mayer;Eléonore Mounoud

  • Top Teams and Strategy in a UK University

    Paula Jarzabkowski;David C. Wilson

  • Actionable Strategy Knowledge:: A Practice Perspective☆

    Paula Jarzabkowski;David C. Wilson

  • Strategy-as-practice

    Paula Jarzabkowski

Frequent Co-Authors

David Seidl
David Seidl University of Zurich
Richard J. Whittington
Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Andrew H. Van de Ven University of Minnesota
Ann Langley
Ann Langley HEC Montréal
Susan Albers Mohrman
Susan Albers Mohrman University of Southern California
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Martha S. Feldman
Martha S. Feldman University of California, Irvine
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Michael G. Pratt
Michael G. Pratt Boston College

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