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Paula Jarzabkowski is Professor of Strategic Management at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. She specializes in strategy-as-practice approaches, examining how strategy is developed and implemented in complex contexts. Her ethnographic research focuses on organizational paradoxes, particularly in reinsurance markets and disaster response systems.
Her primary research areas include:
- Strategy formation in pluralistic organizations
- Risk trading in global reinsurance markets
- Organizational responses to paradoxical demands
- Qualitative methodologies for studying strategy
- Disaster response and crisis management systems
Jarzabkowski's publications demonstrate consistent focus on practice-based approaches to strategy, with recent work examining governance obstacles for grand challenges, middle management in strategic processes, and financial response mechanisms for disasters. Her research combines ethnographic methods with institutional theory to analyze how organizations navigate complex, contradictory demands.
She has received significant recognition including:
- Fellow of the Academy of Management
- ESRC Outstanding Impact on Business Award
- Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
Jarzabkowski leads international research projects on risk governance and has supervised numerous doctoral students to completion on topics spanning strategy practice, organizational paradox, and qualitative methodologies.
