Organisation Studies

The Organisation Studies group conducts research at the individual, organisational, industry and field level.

Our research sites are diverse and include professional service firms, multinational corporations, healthcare, and hybrid, mission-driven organisations. Within these contexts, we have explored a wide range of change and other core organising processes, including:

• professionals’ career transitions
• mergers and acquisitions
• socio-technical disruption
• strategic alignment
• implementation in health care.

We are committed to exploring leadership and its challenges, such as: navigating competing expectations and goals, mental health in leadership roles and the distinctive obstacles and opportunities for women in leadership. Several of our members study the emotional aspects of work, and processes of individual and organisational resilience and growth. 

• Understanding the spread of sustained employee volunteering: how volunteers influence their coworkers’ moral identity work. 
  Journal article | Journal of Management |12-9-2021 
  Michael Gill

• Strategy as language and communication: theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research. 
  Journal article | Strategic Management Journal | 9-9-2021 
  Eero Vaara, Laura Fritsch

• Meaning, mission, and measurement: How organizational performance measurement shapes perceptions of work as worthy 
  Journal article | Academy of Management Journal | 3-9-2021 
  Haley Allison Beer, Pietro, Micheli, Marya Besharov.

• Intersectionality in intractable dirty work: How Mumbai ragpickers make meaning of their work and lives. 
  Journal article | Academy of Management Journal | 1-8-2021 
  Dean Shepherd, Sally Maitlis, Vinit Parida, Joachim Wincent, Thomas B Lawrence

• Creating space for religious diversity at work. 
  Journal article | Harvard Business Review | 10-12-2020 
  A Gümüsay, Michael Smets, Timothy Morris