Professor Paula Jarzabkowski
Professor in Strategy
School of Business
Publications
Books
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Spee, Paul Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Paula Jarzabkowski Strategy as practice: An activity-based approach. SAGE Publications Inc., 2005.doi:10.4135/9781446215777
Book Chapters
Anesa, Mattia, Chalkias, Konstantinos, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Andreas Paul (2019). Practicing capitals across fields: extending Bourdieu to study inter-field dynamics. In Patrick Haack, Jost Sieweke and Lauri Wessel (Ed.), Microfoundations of institutions (pp. 129-142) Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing. doi:10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b010
Feldman, Martha S., D’adderio, Luciana, Dittrich, Katharina and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2019). Introduction: Routine dynamics in action. In Routine Dynamics in Action: Replication and Transformation (pp. 1-10) Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20190000061001
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Lê, Jane K. (2018). Studying paradox as process and practice. In Moshe Farjoun, Wendy Smith, Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas (Ed.), Dualities, dialectics, and paradoxes in organizational life (pp. 175-194) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198827436.003.0009
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2018). Making markets for uninsured risk: Protection gap entities (PGEs) as risk-processing organizations in society. In Robert P. Gephart, Jr., C. Chet Miller and Karin Svedberg Helgesson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management (pp. 477-480) New York, NY, United States: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315458175
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Le, Jane and Spee, Paul (2017). Taking a strong process approach to analyzing qualitative process data. In Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies (pp. 237-253) London, United Kingdom: SAGE.
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Lewis, Marianne and Smith, Wendy (2017). Practices for leveraging the paradoxes of engaged scholarship. In Jean M. Bartunek and Jane McKenzie (Ed.), Academic-Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities (pp. 126-141) London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315657530
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Spee, Paul (2016). The role of artifacts in establishing connectivity within professional routines: a question of entanglement. In Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Glaus Rerup, Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas (Ed.), Organizational routines: how they are created, maintained and changed (pp. 117-139) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Wolf, Carola (2015). An activity theory approach to strategy as practice. In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice 2nd ed. (pp. 165-183) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139681032.010
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets Michael and Spee, Paul (2012). Leveraging relationships to get ready for change. In Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone (Ed.), Ready for change? : transition through turbulence to reformation and transformation (pp. 165-184) Basomgstple: Palgrave MacMillan. doi:10.1057/9781137008404
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Matthiesen, Jane and Van De Ven, Andrew H. (2009). Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism. In Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations (pp. 284-316) : Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511596605.011
Paula Jarzabkowski (2008). Strategy-as-practice. In The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (pp. 364-378) : SAGE Publications Inc..doi:10.4135/9781849200394.n63
Journal Articles
Bednarek, Rebecca, Chalkias, Konstantinos and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2019) Managing risk as a duality of harm and benefit: a study of organizational risk objects in the global insurance industry. British Journal of Management, . doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12389
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Le, Jane and Balogun, Julia (2019) The social practice of coevolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change. Academy of Management Journal, 62 3: 850-882. doi:10.5465/amj.2016.0689
Hengst, Iris-Ariane, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Hoegl, Martin and Muethel, Miriam (2019) Toward a process theory of making sustainability strategies legitimate in action. Academy of Management Journal, . doi:10.5465/amj.2016.0960
Kavas, Mustafa, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Nigam, Amit (2019) Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion in Business. Journal of Business Ethics, . doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04384-5
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca, Chalkias, Konstantinos and Cacciatori, Eugenia (2018) Exploring inter-organizational paradoxes: methodological lessons from a study of a grand challenge. Strategic Organization, 17 1: 120-132. doi:10.1177/1476127018805345
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Lê, Jane Kirsten and Balogun, Julia (2018) The social practice of co-evolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change. Academy of Management Journal, . doi:10.5465/amj.2016.0689
LeBaron, Curtis, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Pratt, Michael G. and Fetzer, Greg (2018) An introduction to video methods in organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 21 2: 239-260. doi:10.1177/1094428117745649
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Bednarek, Rebecca (2018) Toward a social practice theory of relational competing. Strategic Management Journal, 39 3: 794-829. doi:10.1002/smj.2724
Jarzabkowski, Paula A. and Le, Jane K. (2017) We have to do this and that? You must be joking: constructing and responding to paradox through humor. Organization Studies, 38 3-4: 433-462. doi:10.1177/0170840616640846
Spee, Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2017) Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change. Organization Science, 28 1: 152-176. doi:10.1287/orsc.2016.1105
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Kaplan, Sarah, Seidl, David and Whittington, Richard (2016) On the risk of studying practices in isolation: Linking what, who, and how in strategy research. Strategic Organization, 14 3: 248-259. doi:10.1177/1476127015604125
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Kaplan, Sarah, Seidl, David and Whittington, Richard (2016) If you aren't talking about practices, don't call it a practice-based view: Rejoinder to Bromiley and Rau in Strategic Organization. Strategic Organization, 14 3: 270-274. doi:10.1177/1476127016655998
Bednarek, Rebecca, Burke, Gary, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Smets, Michael (2016) Dynamic client portfolios as sources of ambidexterity: Exploration and exploitation within and across client relationships. Long Range Planning, 49 3: 324-341. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2015.12.003
Spee, Paul, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Smets, Michael (2016) The influence of routine interdependence and skillful accomplishment on the coordination of standardizing and customizing. Organization Science, 27 3: 759-781. doi:10.1287/orsc.2016.1050
Le, Jane K. and Jarzabkowski, Paula A. (2015) The role of task and process conflict in strategizing. British Journal of Management, 26 3: 439-462. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12076
Smets, Michael, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary T. and Spee, Paul (2015) Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice. Academy of Management Journal, 58 3: 932-970. doi:10.5465/amj.2012.0638
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Kaplan, Sarah (2015) Strategy tools-in-use: a framework for understanding "technologies of rationality" in practice. Strategic Management Journal, 36 4: 537-558. doi:10.1002/smj.2270
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Cabantous, Laure (2015) Conducting global team-based ethnography: Methodological challenges and practical methods. Human Relations, 68 1: 3-33. doi:10.1177/0018726714535449
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary and Spee, Paul (2015) Constructing spaces for strategic work: a multimodal perspective. British Journal of Management, 26 Supplement S1: S26-S47. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12082
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Le, Jane K. (2014) Producing persuasive findings: Demystifying ethnographic textwork in strategy and organization research. Strategic Organization, 12 4: 274-287. doi:10.1177/1476127014554575
Balogun, Julia, Jacobs, Claus, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Mantere, Saku and Vaara, Eero (2014) Placing strategy discourse in context: Sociomateriality, sensemaking, and power. Journal of Management Studies, 51 2: 175-201. doi:10.1111/joms.12059
Smets, Michael, Burke, Gary, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Paul (2014) Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: insights from a team-based video ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3 1: 10-26. doi:10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Pinch, Trevor (2013) Sociomateriality is 'the New Black': Accomplishing repurposing, reinscripting and repairing in context. Management (France), 16 5: 579-592.
Smets, Michael and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2013) Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity. Human Relations, 66 10: 1279-1309. doi:10.1177/0018726712471407
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Le, Jane K. and Van de Ven, Andrew H. (2013) Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve. Strategic Organization, 11 3: 245-280. doi:10.1177/1476127013481016
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Spee, Andreas Paul and Smets, Michael (2013) Material artifacts: practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'. European Management Journal, 31 1: 41-54. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2012.09.001
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets, Michael, Bednarek, Rebecca, Burke, Gary and Spee, Paul (2013) Institutional ambidexterity: leveraging institutional complexity in practice. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 39 B 37-61. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0039AB015
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Giulietti, Monica, Oliveira, Bruno and Amoo, Nii (2013) "We don't need no education" - Or do we? Management education and alumni adoption of strategy tools. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22 1: 4-24. doi:10.1177/1056492612460588
Jarzabkowski, Paula A., Le, Jane K. and Feldman, Martha S. (2012) Toward a theory of coordinating: creating coordinating mechanisms in practice. Organization Science, 23 4: 907-927. doi:10.1287/orsc.1110.0693
Sillince, John, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Shaw, Duncan (2012) Shaping strategic action through the rhetorical construction and exploitation of ambiguity. Organization Science, 23 3: 630-650. doi:10.1287/orsc.1110.0670
Spee, A. Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2011) Strategic planning as communicative process. Organization Studies, 32 9: 1217-1245. doi:10.1177/0170840611411387
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Mohrman, Susan Albers and Scherer, Andreas Georg (2010) Organization studies as applied science: The generation and use of academic knowledge about organizations introduction to the special issue. Organization Studies, 31 9-10: 1189-1207. doi:10.1177/0170840610374394
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Sillince, John AA and Shaw, Duncan (2010) Strategic ambiguity as a rhetorical resource for enabling multiple interests. Human Relations, 63 2: 219-248. doi:10.1177/0018726709337040
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Balogun, Julia (2009) The practice and process of delivering integration through strategic planning. Journal of Management Studies, 46 8: 1255-1288. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00853.x
Spee, Andreas Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2009) Strategy tools as boundary objects. Strategic Organization, 7 2: 223-232. doi:10.1177/1476127009102674
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Andreas Paul (2009) Strategy-as-practice: a review and future directions for the field. International Journal of Management Reviews, 11 1: 69-95. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2008.00250.x
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Whittington, Richard (2008) Directions for a troubled discipline: Strategy research, teaching, and practice-introduction to the dialog. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17 4: 266-268. doi:10.1177/1056492608318148
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Whittington, Richard (2008) A strategy-as-practice approach to strategy research and education. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17 4: 282-286. doi:10.1177/1056492608318150
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Seidl, David (2008) The role of meetings in the social practice of strategy. Organization Studies, 29 11: 1391-1426. doi:10.1177/0170840608096388
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Sillince, John (2007) A rhetoric-in-context approach to building commitment to multiple strategic goals. Organization Studies, 28 11: 1639-1665. doi:10.1177/0170840607075266
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Balogun, Julia and Seidl, David (2007) Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective. Human Relations, 60 1: 5-27. doi:10.1177/0018726707075703
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Fenton, Evelyn (2006) Strategizing and Organizing in Pluralistic Contexts. Long Range Planning, 39 6: 631-648. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2006.11.002
Paula Jarzabkowski (2003) Strategic practices: an activity theory perspective on continuity and change. Journal of Management Studies, 40 1: 23-55.doi:10.1111/1467-6486.t01-1-00003
Conference Papers
Kavas, Mustafa, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Nigam, Amit (2017). Islamic family business: The constitutive role of religion on business. In: 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017, Atlanta, United States, (). 4-8 August 2017. doi:10.5465/ambpp.2017.267
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Cabantous, Laure (2017). Timing practices and material markers in coordinating collective market patterns. In: 2017 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, United States, (). 4- 8 August, 2017. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.126
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Bednarek, Rebecca (2015). Towards a social-practice theory of competition. In: 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2015. 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (720-725). 7-11 August, 2015. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2015.102
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Wolf, Carola (2014). The role of practical coping in strategy making. In: Guclu Atinc, 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2014. 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2014, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (1332-1337). 1-4 August, 2014. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2014.259
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Cabantous, Laure (2013). Markets as meta-interpretive systems. In: Guclu Atinc, Academy of Management 2013 Annual Meeting, AOM 2013. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2013, Orlando, FL, United States, (473-478). 10-12 August, 2013. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2013.174
Smets, Michael, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary T. and Spee, Paul (2012). Reinsurance trading in Lloyd's of London: Balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice. In: Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting, AOM 2012. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2012, Boston, MA, (840-845). 7-10 August 2012. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2012.246
Spee, Andreas Paul, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Smets, Michael (2012). Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'Stuff'. In: Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting, AOM 2012, Boston, MA United States, (353-358). 3-7 August 2012. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2012.250
Research Report
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets, Michael and Spee, Paul (2010) Trading risk: The value of relationships, models and face-to-face interaction in the global reinsurance market Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom: Aston Business School