Dr Ali Intezari Harsini
Senior Lecturer in Management
School of Business
+61 7 344 31249
Room 408, Joyce Ackroyd (37), St. Lucia Campus
Researcher biography
Dr Ali Intezari is a Senior Lecturer at UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Prior to joining the University of Queensland, he held academic positions in New Zealand. His research interests include decision-making, human-technology interaction, wisdom theory, knowledge management, cultural studies, and business in the Middle East. He has published in the fields of organisation/management, knowledge management, and information systems. Dr Intezari has taught courses at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He has won multiple teaching and research awards.
Publications
Books
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2019). Wisdom, analytics and wicked problems: integral decision making for the data age. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315547022
Muenjohn, Muttawuth , McMurray, Adela , Fernando, Mario , Hunt, James , Fitzgerald, Martin , McKenna, Bernard , Intezari, Ali , Bankins, Sarah and Waterhouse, Jennifer (2018). Leadership: regional and global perspectives. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108617666
Book Chapters
Soleimani, Melika, Arrowsmith, Jim, Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2024). Human resource management and disruptive technologies. Research Handbook on Human Resource Management and Disruptive Technologies. (pp. 1-18) edited by Tanya Bondarouk and Jeroen Meijerink. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Asadi, Samaneh and Intezari, Ali (2021). The wisdom of good thought and deed: the Persian perspective. Practical wisdom, leadership and culture: indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern perspectives. (pp. 189-206) edited by Ali Intezari, Chellie Spiller and Shih-ying Yang. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429055508-16
Intezari, Ali, Spiller, Chellie and Yang, Shih-ying (2020). Introducing “Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture: Indigenous, Asian, and Middle-Eastern Perspectives”. Practical wisdom and leadership in a poly-cultural world: Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern perspectives. (pp. 1-11) edited by Ali Intezari, Chellie Spiller and Shih-ying Yang. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2020). Time-bounded decision-making: what we need to know about knowledge. Knowledge management, innovation, and entrepreneurship in a changing world. (pp. 187-208) edited by Murray Eugene Jennex. Hershey, PA USA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2355-1.ch008
Yang, Shih-ying and Intezari, Ali (2019). Non-Western lay conceptions of wisdom. The Cambridge handbook of wisdom. (pp. 429-452) edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Judith Glück. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108568272.020
McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2018). Power, politics and influence. Leadership: regional and global perspectives. (pp. 190-218) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Intezari, Ali and McKenna, Bernard (2018). Creating organizational culture. Leadership: regional and global perspectives. (pp. 160-189) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Intezari, Ali (2016). Practical wisdom through sustainability: a meta-approach. Cultural roots of sustainable management: practical wisdom and corporate social responsibility. (pp. 23-37) edited by André Habisch and René Schmidpeter. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28287-9_3
Dalal, Nikunj, Intezari, Ali and Heitz, Marty H. (2016). Editors' preface introducing Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, issues and questions for a new millennium. Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, issues, and questions for a new millennium. (pp. xvi-xxii) edited by Nikunj Dalal, Ali Intezari and Marty H. Heitz. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Intezari, Ali (2016). Conceptualizing wisdom: theoretical perspectives. Practical wisdom in the age of technology: insights, issues, and questions for a new millennium. (pp. 1-15) edited by Nikunj Dalal, Ali Intezari and Mary H. Heitz. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2013). Students of wisdom: an integral meta-competencies theory of practical wisdom. Handbook of practical wisdom: Leadership, organization and integral business practice. (pp. 155-174) edited by Wendelin Kupers and David J. Pauleen. Farnham, United Kingdom: Gower. doi: 10.4324/9781315564814
Journal Articles
McKenna, Bernard, Brienza, Justin P. and Intezari, Ali (2023). Tribal games: Tribalist foundations of Trump supporters. Critical Sociology, 49 (4-5), 625-645. doi: 10.1177/08969205221135037
Pauleen, David, Intezari, Ali and Küpers, Wendelin (2022). Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 38 (3) 101218, 101218. doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2022.101218
Namvar, Morteza, Intezari, Ali, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Brienza, Justin P. (2022). Beyond effective use: integrating wise reasoning in machine learning development. International Journal of Information Management, 69 102566, 102566. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102566
Soleimani, Melika, Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2022). Mitigating cognitive biases in developing AI-assisted recruitment systems: a knowledge-sharing approach. International Journal of Knowledge Management, 18 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.4018/ijkm.290022
Intezari, Ali, Namvar, Morteza and Taghinejad, Ramin (2022). Knowledge identity (KI): a determining factor in the effective use of analytics. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 20 (1), 14-33. doi: 10.1080/14778238.2021.1967213
Rahmati, Mohammad Hossein, Intezari, Ali and McKenna, Bernard (2021). A Shi’a Islam approach to wisdom in management: a deep understanding opening to dialogue and dialectic. Journal of Business Ethics, 181 (4), 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-04958-2
Jafarzadeh, Hamed, Tafti, Mahdi, Intezari, Ali and Sohrabi, Babak (2021). All's well that ends well: Effective recovery from failures during the delivery phase of e-retailing process. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 62 102602, 102602. doi: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102602
Namvar, Morteza, Intezari, Ali and Im, Ghiyoung (2021). Sensegiving in organizations via the use of business analytics. Information Technology & People, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1615-1638. doi: 10.1108/itp-10-2020-0735
Intezari, Ali, Pauleen, David J. and Taskin, Nazim (2021). Towards a foundational KM theory: a culture-based perspective. Journal of Knowledge Management, 26 (6), 1516-1539. doi: 10.1108/JKM-03-2021-0249
Taskin, Nazim, Pauleen, David, Intezari, Ali and Scahill, Shane (2019). Why are leaders trusting their gut instinct over analytics? And what to do about it. New Zealand Management, 33 (3), 10-11.
M. Alammar, Fahad, Intezari, Ali, Cardow, Andrew and J. Pauleen, David (2019). Grounded theory in practice: novice researchers’ choice between Straussian and Glaserian. Journal of Management Inquiry, 28 (2), 228-245. doi: 10.1177/1056492618770743
Intezari, Ali (2018). What does wise management decision-making really mean?. Leader to Leader, 2018 (88), 61-62. doi: 10.1002/ltl.20360
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2017). Managing a path to wisdom. New Zealand Management, 31 (5), 4-5.
Intezari, Ali, Taskin, Nazim and Pauleen, David J. (2017). Looking beyond knowledge sharing: an integrative approach to knowledge management culture. Journal of Knowledge Management, 21 (2), 492-515. doi: 10.1108/JKM-06-2016-0216
Intezari, Ali and Gressel, Simone (2017). Information and reformation in KM systems: big data and strategic decision-making. Journal of Knowledge Management, 21 (1), 71-91. doi: 10.1108/JKM-07-2015-0293
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2017). Conceptualizing wise management decision-making: a grounded theory approach. Decision Sciences, 49 (2), 335-400. doi: 10.1111/deci.12267
Purleen, David J., Rooney, David and Intezari, Ali (2017). Big data, little wisdom: trouble brewing? Ethical implications for the information systems discipline. Social Epistemology, 31 (4), 400-416. doi: 10.1080/02691728.2016.1249436
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2017). The past-present-future conundrum: extending time-bound knowledge. International Journal of Knowledge Management, 13 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.4018/IJKM.2017010101
Intezari, Ali, Pauleen, David and Rooney, David (2016). Rediscovering Philosophia: The PhD as a path to enhancing knowledge, wisdom and creating a better world. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 13, 147-168.
Ali Intezari (2015). Integrating wisdom and sustainability: dealing with instability. Business Strategy and the Environment, 24 (7), 617-627. doi: 10.1002/bse.1892
Pauleen, David, Dalal, Nikunj, Rooney, David, Intezari, Ali and Wang, Wenli (2015). In bed with technology? Peril, promise, and prudence. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37 (1) 38, 783-796. doi: 10.17705/1cais.03738
Intezari, A., Pauleen, D. J. and Hocking, P. R. S. (2015). Directors must help deliver wise decisions. Boardroom, 38-39.
Pauleen, David, Campbell, John, Harmer, Brian and Intezari, Ali (2015). Making sense of mobile technology: the integration of work and private life. Sage Open, 5 (2), 215824401558385. doi: 10.1177/2158244015583859
Pauleen, David, Rooney, David and Intezari, Ali (2015). Big data, little wisdom: Trouble brewing? Ethical implications for the information systems discipline. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 4 (8), 9-33.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2013). Management wisdom in perspective: are you virtuous enough to succeed in volatile times?. Journal of Business Ethics, 120 (3), 393-404. doi: 10.1007/s10551-013-1666-6
Zahedi, S. M. and Intezari, A. (2007). Knowledge culture: Dimensions, criteria, and comparison of three organizations. Quarterly Journal of Management and Accounting School, 56, 45-69.
Zahedi, S. M. and Intezari, Ali (2007). Managing knowledge culture. Management & Development, Scientific: Promotive Quarterly Journal, 9 (34), 81-100.
Conference Papers
Manik, Hardo, Intezari, Ali and Brienza, Justin (2023). Wisdom as a meta-approach to sustainability: The case of the Batak Toba indigenous community in Indonesia. 36th ANZAM Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 5-7 December 2023.
Smith, M., Houghton, Luke, Riverola, Carla and Intezari, Ali (2022). How to Manage AI Wisely: Investigating the impact of AI-powered decisions in organisations. ABEN, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 1-2 December 2022.
Brienza, Justin P., McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2022). Perceptions of leader wisdom and follower resilience in crises. Society for the Study of Human Development 2021-2022 Conference Series, Online, 4-5 April 2022. Gainesville, FL, United States: Society For The Study Of Human Development.
Pauleen, David, Weerasinghe, Kasuni, Taşkın, Nazım and Intezari, Ali (2022). Mini-Track Judgement, Big Data Analytics and Decision-making. IEEE Computer Society.
Fu, Sarah M., Intezari, Ali and Callan, Victor J. (2021). Accountants’ whistleblowing behaviours: the macro, meso, and micro analysis in Indonesian context. British Academy of Management 2021 Conference, Online, 31 August-3 September 2021. London, United Kingdom: British Academy of Management.
Intezari, Ali, Namvar, Morteza and Taghinejhad, Ramin (2021). Knowledge Identity (KI): A New Approach to Integrating Knowledge Management into Enterprise Systems. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, United States, 5-8 January 2021. Honolulu, HI United States: HICCS.
Soleimani, Melika, Intezari, Ali, Taskin, Nazim and Pauleen, David (2021). Cognitive biases in developing biased Artificial Intelligence recruitment system. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, HI United States, 5-8 January 2021. Honolulu, HI United States: HICCS.
Pauleen, David, Weerasinghe, Kasuni, Taskin, Nazim and Intezari, Ali (2021). Introduction to the judgement, big data-analytics and decision-making minitrack. 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI United States, 5-8 January 2021. Washington, DC United States: IEEE Computer Society.
Namvar, Morteza and Intezari, Ali (2021). Wise data-driven decision-making. Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, Galway, Ireland, 1-3 September 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85447-8_10
Kia, Mahdis and Intezari, Ali (2020). Challenges of real-time applications of artificial intelligence in leading organisations. 10th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), The University of Notre Dame, Australia (virtual conference), 7-9 December.
Fu, Sarah , McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2020). Accountants’ whistleblowing behaviours: macro, meso, and micro analysis In Indonesian context. 10th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), The University of Notre Dame, Australia (virtual conference), 7-9 December.
Tsai, Amy , Intezari, Ali and Henman, Paul (2020). What responsible lending means to bank lenders within the Australian financial sector. 10th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), The University of Notre Dame, Australia (virtual conference), 7-9 December.
Intezari, Ali (2020). The Persian tradition of practical wisdom. International Leadership Association, 22nd Global Annual Conference, Virtual, 5-9 November 2020.
McKenna, Bernard, Gabriel, Cle-Anne and Intezari, Ali (2019). Degrowth as a Wise Choice. 9th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 8-10 December 2019.
Intezari, Ali (2019). Wisdom culture. Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), Taipei, Taiwan, 11-13 July 2019.
Kia, Mahdis and Intezari, Ali (2019). Securing sustainable satisfaction investigating the benefits of consumer relationship management with the use of RFM method. 16th International Conference on Business Management (ICBM), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 12-14 December 2019.
Kia, Mahdis and Intezari, Ali (2019). How to manage AI wisely? Wise leadership in the intelligent technologies era. The 9th Annual Australaisan Business Ethics Network (ABEN), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 8-10 December 2019.
Intezari, Ali and McKenna, Bernard (2018). Preparing leaders for the Anthropocene era. Australian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), Auckland, New Zealand, 9-11 December 2018.
Taskin, Nazim, Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2018). Culture, leadership and knowledge management. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26-30 June 2018.
Soleimani, Melika, Pauleen, David, Intezari, Ali and Taskin, Nazim (2018). Artificial intelligence and cognitive biases. Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), Auckland, New Zealand, 9-11 December 2018.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David J. (2017). Wise management decision-making: a new concept. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA United States, 4-9 August 2017. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2017.13346abstract
Pauleen, David, Taskin, Nazim and Intezari, Ali (2017). Technology, temporality and offroaders. 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2017), Boston, MA, United States, 10-12 August 2017. Atlanta, GA, United States: Association for Information Systems ( AIS ).
McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2016). The nature of Wisdom in Post-graduate students. Australian Business Ethics Network (ABEN), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 10-12 August 2016.
Intezari, Ali and Elms, Jonathan (2016). Enabling state-of-the art decision making for retail SMEs. The 23rd International Conference on Recent Advances In Retailing And Services Science (The European Institute Of Retailing And Services Studies - EIRASS), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 11-14 July 2016.
Intezari, Ali, Pauleen, David J. and Taskin, Nazim (2016). The DIKW hierarchy and management decision-making. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Koloa, HI, United States, 5-8 January 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.520
Intezari, Ali and Taskin, Nazim (2015). Knowledge processes as inter-related entities in knowledge culture. The Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Economics, Management and Marketing (MAC-EMM), Prague, Czech Republic, 4-6 December 2015. Prague, Czech Republic: MAC Prague consulting.
Dalal, N., Pauleen, D., Rooney, D., Intezari, A. and Wang, W. (2014). In bed with technology? Peril, promise, and prudence. Panel Presentation. The 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University of Technology, 8-10 December 2014.
Intezari, Ali, Pauleen, D. and Rooney, D. (2014). Is knowledge enough? The case for research that leads to a better world. Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 December 2014.
Taskin, N., Intezari, Ali, Verville, J. and Keskin, T. (2014). Quality of Output in Healthcare: An Empirical Study. Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 December 2014.
Taskin, Nazim, Intezari, Ali, Verville, Jacques and Keskin, Tayfun (2014). Interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare systems: an empirical study. 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Auckland, New Zealand, 8-10 December 2014. Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland Business School.
Intezari, Ali (2013). Wisdom through sustainability: Dealing with turbulence and inconsistency. Sustainability Conference: Sustainability rhetoric: Facts and fictions, Auckland, New Zealand, 13-15 November 2013.
Intezari, Ali (2013). Praxio-integrative decision-making: from information-supported decisions towards wisdom-fostered decisions. New Zealand Information Systems Doctoral Consortium (NZISDC), Auckland, New Zealand, 26-27 July 2013.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, D.J. (2013). Looking beyond knowledge: can wisdom be nurtured in management programs?. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Orlando, FL, United States, 9-13 August 2013.
Intezari, Ali (2012). From wisdom to praxis: empirical findings on practical wisdom and decision-making. The Wise Management in Organizational Complexity Conference, Shanghai, China, 23-24 May 2012.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2012). When knowledge is insufficient: wisdom in a complex world. The Eighteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Seattle, WA, United States, 9-11 August 2012.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, D. J. (2011). Wisdom, management and extreme unpredictability: a conceptual model. The 8th International Conference of Spirituality, Leadership & Management (SLaM), Sydney, Australia, 8-11 September 2011.
Intezari, Ali (2011). The role of wisdom in management: preliminary findings. Wisdom Symposium, Practical Wisdom: Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2011.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, D. J. (2011). When knowledge is not enough: teaching wisdom for a complex world. Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS 14th), Auckland, New Zealand, 28 December - 1 November 2011.
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, D. J. (2010). Managing knowledge in a complex world. The 14th Annual Waikato Management School Student Research Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 18 October 2010.
Research Report
Collins, Michael, McKenna, Bernard and Intezari, Ali (2020). Leading to serve: a community-centred approach to leadership in the Queensland Police Service. Brisbane, Queensland: The University of Queensland.
Newspaper Articles
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2020, 09 30). Wisdom of Oz: The Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion Inside Small Business
Taskin, Nazim, Pauleen, David, Intezari, Ali and Scahill, Shane (2019, 04 24). Why do many senior managers distrust big data Human Resources Director
Intezari, Ali and Pauleen, David (2017, 05 01). The road to management wisdom Momentum
Intezari, Ali (2016, 06 01). Are Australian banks missing the opportunity in Iran? Momentum 1-2.