2026 Robert Chia: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3499	3222	590	540	134	15989

Overview

Robert Chia is primarily affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on various dimensions of business, management, and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on organizational behavior, strategy, and innovation.

The main fields of study associated with Robert Chia include Business, Management and Accounting, with 18 publications, and Social Sciences, with 5 publications. Within these fields, their work covers several subfields:

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Strategy and Management
Information Systems and Management
Demography
Management of Technology and Innovation

Their primary research topics also reflect a broad spectrum of interests:

Management and Organizational Studies
Management Theory and Practice
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Ethics in Business and Education
Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Accounting and Organizational Management
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Recent publications by Robert Chia showcase a variety of contributions to academic discourse. Notable papers include:

"Confucian Virtue Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Modern China" (2022, Journal of Business Ethics)
"Strategy-in-Practices: A process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes" (2020, Human Relations)
"Stakeholder theory: A process-ontological perspective" (2022, Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility)
"Are James March's 'exploration' and 'exploitation' separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management" (2023, Technological Forecasting and Social Change)
"Strategy, Intentionality and Success: Four Logics for Explaining Strategic Action" (2023, Organization Theory)

Robert Chia has collaborated frequently with several researchers:

Brad MacKay
Li Yuan
Jonathan Gosling
Anup Karath Nair
Qijun Zhou

Their work has been published in various academic journals, including:

Journal of Business Ethics
Human Relations
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility
Organization Theory

In addition to journal articles, Robert Chia has contributed to book literature. One such publication is "Strategy-In-Practices," published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press, which has attracted citations and adds to the scholarly discussion on strategy.

Best Publications

On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change

Haridimos Tsoukas;Robert Chia

4079
Citations
From Modern to Postmodern Organizational Analysis

Robert Chia

927
Citations
Strategy as Practical Coping: A Heideggerian Perspective

Robert Chia;Robin Holt

915
Citations
Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice

Robert C H Chia;Brad MacKay

818
Citations
A 'rhizomic' model of organizational change and transformation: perspective from a metaphysics of change

Robert Chia

729
Citations
Discourse Analysis Organizational Analysis

Robert Chia

603
Citations
The Problem of Reflexivity in Organizational Research: Towards a Postmodern Science of Organization

Robert Chia

514
Citations
Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action

Robert C. H. Chia;Robin Holt

485
Citations
Researching Strategy Practices: A Genealogical Social Theory Perspective

Andreas Rasche;Robert C. H. Chia

391
Citations
Choice, Chance, and Unintended Consequences in Strategic Change: A Process Understanding of the Rise and Fall of NorthCo Automotive

R. Bradley MacKay;Robert Chia

388
Citations
Strategy-as-practice: reflections on the research agenda

Robert Chia

375
Citations
Teaching paradigm shifting in management education: university business schools and the entrepreneurial imagination

Robert Chia

363
Citations
The nature of knowledge in business schools

Robert Chia;Robin Holt

351
Citations
Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers

Mairi Maclean;Charles Harvey;Robert Chia

338
Citations
From Knowledge-Creation to the Perfecting of Action: Tao, Basho and Pure Experience as the Ultimate Ground of Knowing

Robert C H Chia

286
Citations
From Complexity Science to Complex Thinking: Organization as Simple Location

Robert Chia

262
Citations
THE CONCEPT OF DECISION: A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS*

Robert Chia

260
Citations
THINKING BECOMING AND EMERGENCE: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION STUDIES

Ajit Nayak;Robert Chia

220
Citations
Dominant Corporate Agents and the Power Elite in France and Britain

Mairi Maclean;Charles Harvey;Robert Chia

206
Citations
Essai: Time, Duration and Simultaneity: Rethinking Process and Change in Organizational Analysis

Robert Chia

196
Citations
The silent efficacy of indirect action

Robert C. H. Chia;Robin Holt

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Holt University of Bristol

Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

External Links

Personal website of Robert Chia Google Scholar page

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