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Overview

Robin Holt is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Museology.

Their work covers a broad range of topics including Management and Organizational Studies, Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Crafts, Textile, and Design, Artistic and Creative Research, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Holt's recent papers include these publications:

  • "Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in 'New' Modes of Organizing," 2021, Organization Studies
  • "The Topographical Imagination: Space and organization theory," 2020, Organization Theory
  • "Ten Theses on Technology and Organization: Introduction to the Special Issue," 2022, Organization Studies
  • "Hannah Arendt and the Raising of Conscience in Business Schools," 2020, Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • "Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action," 2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Frequent co-authors of Holt include:

  • Mike Zundel
  • François-Xavier de Vaujany
  • Albane Grandazzi
  • Annika Skoglund
  • Sverre Raffnsøe

Their publications have appeared often in the following venues:

  • Foucault Studies
  • Organization Studies
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Organization Theory
  • Academy of Management Learning and Education

Robin Holt is also an author of books published by Cambridge University Press. Two titles from 2023 are noted:

  • Organization as Time
  • The Poverty of Strategy

Best Publications

  • Using knowledge within small and medium-sized firms: A systematic review of the evidence

    Richard Thorpe;Robin Holt;Allan Macpherson;Luke Pittaway

  • Strategy as Practical Coping: A Heideggerian Perspective

    Robert Chia;Robin Holt

  • Knowledge, learning and small firm growth: A systematic review of the evidence

    Allan Macpherson;Robin Holt

  • Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action

    Robert C. H. Chia;Robin Holt

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research

    Richard Thorpe;Robin Holt

  • The nature of knowledge in business schools

    Robert Chia;Robin Holt

  • The Role of Analogy and Metaphor in the Framing and Legitimization of Strategic Change

    Joep P. Cornelissen;Robin Holt;Mike Zundel

  • Entrepreneurship and process studies

    Daniel Hjorth;Robin Holt;Chris Steyaert

  • The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

    Jenny Helin;Tor Hernes;Daniel Hjorth;Robin Holt

  • Sensemaking, rhetoric and the socially competent entrepreneur.

    Robin Holt;Allan Macpherson

  • Wisdom, management and organization

    Ikujiro Nonaka;Robert Chia;Robin Holt;Vesa Peltokorpi

  • Sensemaking revisited

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  • Phenomenology and organization theory

    Robin Holt;Jörgen Sandberg

  • Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing:

    François-Xavier de Vaujany;Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte;Iain Munro;Yesh Nama

  • The presence of entrepreneurial opportunity

    Andrew Popp;Robin Holt

  • Reflective Judgement: Understanding Entrepreneurship as Ethical Practice

    Jean Clarke;Robin Holt

  • The Mature Entrepreneur: A Narrative Approach to Entrepreneurial Goals

    Jean Clarke;Robin Holt

  • Using History in the Creation of Organizational Identity

    Mike Zundel;Robin Holt;Andrew Popp

  • Strategy without Design by Robert C. H. Chia

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  • Risk Management: the Talking Cure

    Robin Holt

  • Project sponsors under New Public Management: lessons from the frontline

    Mark Hall;Robin Holt;David Purchase

  • Absorptive and transformative capacities in nanotechnology innovation systems

    Krsto Pandza;Robin Holt

  • The silent efficacy of indirect action

    Robert C. H. Chia;Robin Holt

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Chia
Robert Chia University of Glasgow
Oswald Jones
Oswald Jones University of Liverpool
Trish Reay
Trish Reay University of Alberta
Frank Mueller
Frank Mueller Durham University
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

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