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Professor Sierk Ybema is a distinguished scholar in Organization Studies at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Business and Law, with a parallel appointment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His research centers on social, cultural and political processes in organizational settings, with particular expertise in ethnographic approaches to understanding workplace dynamics.
Ybema holds a Ph.D. in Social Science from VU University Amsterdam (2003) with a thesis on editorial conflicts in Dutch newspapers, and an M.Sc. in Organizational Psychology from the same institution (1992). His research spans two decades of ethnographic work in diverse settings including amusement parks, newspaper editorial offices, multinational corporations, police organizations, and healthcare institutions.
His research interests focus on organizational identities, cross-boundary collaboration, workplace resistance, organizational discourse and change, intercultural communication, and organizational ethnography. Ybema examines how social actors negotiate meaning, power, and identity in complex organizational environments, particularly during periods of radical change or cross-cultural interaction.
His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on boundary work, identity construction, and resistance dynamics across various sectors including healthcare, multinational corporations, and public services. The research demonstrates methodological sophistication through ethnographic approaches that uncover nuanced organizational processes often invisible to more traditional analytical frameworks.
- Associate Editor of Organization journal
- Member of the Editorial Board of Organization Studies
- Principal Organizer of the International Conference on Organizational Discourse
- Principal Organizer of the Ethnography Workshop (with Cardiff and Lyon)
- Member of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies)
Ybema has secured substantial research funding from diverse sources including the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, and various industry partners. His projects span cross-cultural collaboration in Chinese business in Europe, healthcare innovation and integration, nursing home change and innovation, and decentralization of long-term care. He has supervised numerous PhD students working on identity, talent management, diversity, cross-cultural collaboration, and boundary work in organizational settings.
His ethnographic approach has led to extensive fieldwork in Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch multinational companies, Amsterdam municipality, Dutch National Police, cultural industries, and healthcare organizations. This work has been funded by government agencies, public organizations, and industry partners across Europe.
