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D-Index
57
Citations
37048
World Ranking
627
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Roy Suddaby is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research contributions span various fields related to business, management, and social sciences, with a particular focus on organizational behavior, sociology, strategy, and technology management.

The scientist has produced significant work within the subfields of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Information Systems and Management, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The recurring themes in their research include Management and Organizational Studies, Management Theory and Practice, Ethics in Business and Education, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Social and Cultural Dynamics, and Family Business Performance and Succession.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Roy Suddaby include:

  • Technology, entrepreneurship, innovation and social change in digital economics (2022, Technovation)
  • Managing Traditions: A Critical Capability for Family Business Success (2020, Family Business Review)
  • Configurations of Craft: Alternative Models for Organizing Work (2021, Academy of Management Annals)
  • Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment (2021, Academy of Management Review)
  • Temporal Work: The Strategic Organization of Time (2022, Strategic Organization)

Frequent collaboration has been established with several scholars, with multiple co-authored publications including Diego M. Coraiola, Oliver Laasch, Mairi Maclean, Jochem Kroezen, and R. Edward Freeman.

The principal publication venues for Roy Suddaby's work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Family Business Review
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Organization Studies
  • Strategic Change

In addition to journal articles, Roy Suddaby has contributed to academic books published by Informa and Transcript Verlag. Their book publications include chapter contributions addressing historical organization studies and organizational change related to migration.

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Dean of Fellow from the Academy of Management, reflecting their standing within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • From the Editors: What Grounded Theory is Not

    Roy Suddaby

  • Theorizing Change: The Role of Professional Associations in the Transformation of Institutionalized Fields

    Royston Greenwood;Roy Suddaby;C. R. Hinings

  • Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy

    Roy Suddaby;Royston Greenwood

  • INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MATURE FIELDS: THE BIG FIVE ACCOUNTING FIRMS

    Royston Greenwood;Roy Suddaby

  • Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Institutions and Institutional Work

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Bernard Leca;Roy Suddaby

  • Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Challenges for Institutional Theory

    Roy Suddaby

  • Editor's Comments: Construct Clarity in Theories of Management and Organization

    Roy Suddaby

  • Legitimacy

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  • Introduction: Theorizing and Studying Institutional Work

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Transnational regulation of professional services: Governance dynamics of field level organizational change

    Roy Suddaby;David J. Cooper;Royston Greenwood

  • Professionals and field-level change: Institutional work and the professional project

    Roy Suddaby;Thierry P Viale

  • Professions and Institutional Change: Towards an Institutionalist Sociology of the Professions

    Daniel Muzio;David M. Brock;Roy Suddaby

  • The organizational context of professionalism in accounting

    Roy Suddaby;Yves Gendron;Helen Lam

  • Entrepreneurship through a qualitative lens: Insights on the construction and/or discovery of entrepreneurial opportunity

    Roy Suddaby;Roy Suddaby;Garry D. Bruton;Garry D. Bruton;Steven X. Si;Steven X. Si

  • Rhetorical history as a source of competitive advantage

    Roy Suddaby;William M. Foster;Chris Quinn Trank

  • Colonizing Knowledge: Commodification as a Dynamic of Jurisdictional Expansion in Professional Service Firms

    Roy Suddaby;Royston Greenwood

  • Organizations and Their Institutional Environments—Bringing Meaning, Values, and Culture Back In: Introduction to the Special Research Forum

    Roy Suddaby;Kimberly D. Elsbach;Royston Greenwood;John W. Meyer

  • Introduction to Special Topic Forum: Where are the New Theories of Organization?

    Roy Suddaby;Cynthia Hardy;Quy Nguyen Huy

  • Strategy-as-practice meets neo-institutional theory

    Roy Suddaby;David Seidl;Jane K Lê

  • Theory Building A Review and Integration

    Dean A. Shepherd;Roy Suddaby

  • Theorizing Change: The Role of Professional Associations in the Transformation of Institutionalized Fields

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Frequent Co-Authors

Royston Greenwood
Royston Greenwood University of Alberta
Mairi Maclean
Mairi Maclean University of Bath
Yves Gendron
Yves Gendron Université Laval
Majken Schultz
Majken Schultz Copenhagen Business School
Thomas B. Lawrence
Thomas B. Lawrence University of Oxford
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
R. Edward Freeman
R. Edward Freeman University of Virginia
Daniel Muzio
Daniel Muzio University of York
Dean A. Shepherd
Dean A. Shepherd University of Notre Dame
Garry D. Bruton
Garry D. Bruton Texas Christian University

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