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Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Meissner, K., Riordan, T. & Gallagher, R.view all authors (2025). What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters. The Journal of Practice Theory, 1, doi: 10.71936/xz4v-vp76

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Lê, J., Seidl, D. & Vaara, E.view all authors (2025). Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: how strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy. Academy of Management Collections, 4(2), pp. 55-76. doi: 10.5465/amc.2023.0005

Knight, E., Lok, J., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Wenzel, M.view all authors (2025). Sensing the room: the role of atmosphere in collective sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 68(2), pp. 326-356. doi: 10.5465/amj.2021.1389

Chalkias, K., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Kavas, M. & Krull, E.view all authors (2025). That’s not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance. British Journal of Sociology, doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13206

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. , Cacciatori, E. ORCID: 0000-0001-6229-7266, Kavas, M., Krull, E. & Gallagher Rodgers, R.view all authors (2025). Translating, co-creating, and performing: Reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance. Strategic Organization, 23(1), pp. 79-97. doi: 10.1177/14761270231218094

Kilminster, W. ORCID: 0009-0002-2134-6011, Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Giudici, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-6033-1643 (2025). Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing. Business History, 67(2), pp. 430-465. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2289580

Li, Q. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2025). Reinstating the Radical: Trajectory, Debates, and Proposals for Strategy as Practice. Journal of Business Research, 187, article number 115055. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115055

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Unger, C. & Meissner, K. (2025). Valuing what you risk and risking what you value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies. Organization Studies, 46(1), pp. 121-139. doi: 10.1177/01708406241290038

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Meissner, K. & Mason, M. (2024). Insurance options in a climate changed future: The way forward for urban climate policy and practice. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy,

Hamdali, Y., Skade, L., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 , Nicolini, D., Reinecke, J., Vaara, E. & Zietsma, C.view all authors (2024). Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact through Practice-Based Scholarship. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33(3), pp. 230-243. doi: 10.1177/10564926231219621

Bednarek, R., Cacciatori, E. ORCID: 0000-0001-6229-7266, Chalkias, K. , Gallagher Rodgers, R., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Kavas, M. & Krull, E.view all authors (2024). Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 60(1), pp. 194-214. doi: 10.1177/00218863231207873

Couture, F., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Le, J. K. (2023). Triggers, traps, and disconnect: How governance obstacles hinder progress on grand challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 66(6), pp. 1651-1680. doi: 10.5465/amj.2020.1716

Splitter, V., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Seidl, D. (2023). Middle managers’ struggle over their subject position in Open Strategy processes. Journal of Management Studies, 60(7), pp. 1884-1923. doi: 10.1111/joms.12776

Knight, E. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2023). Presenting as a Chief Strategy Officer: a discourse-analytical study of elite subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Human Relations, 76(9), pp. 1414-1440. doi: 10.1177/00187267221099773

Alexy, O., Berchicci, L. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2023). The buzzing, blooming, (potentially) confusing field of theory development in entrepreneurship research. Strategic Organization, 21(2), pp. 400-402. doi: 10.1177/14761270231167005

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Bednarek, R., Kilminster, W. & Spee, P.view all authors (2023). An integrative approach to investigating longstanding organizational phenomena: Opportunities for practice theorists and historians. Business History, 65(3), pp. 414-422. doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1906227

Alexy, O., Berchicci, L., Dowell, G. , Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Langley, A., Moschieri, C. & Nigam, A.view all authors (2022). SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20. Strategic Organization, 20(4), pp. 677-682. doi: 10.1177/14761270221137160

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. & Cacciatori, E.view all authors (2022). Enabling rapid financial response to disasters: Knotting and reknotting multiple paradoxes in inter-organizational systems. Academy of Management Journal, 65(5), pp. 1477-1506. doi: 10.5465/amj.2019.0745

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Seidl, D. & Balogun, J. (2022). From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions. Human Relations, 75(8), pp. 1533-1559. doi: 10.1177/00187267221089473

Kilminster, W., Giudici, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-6033-1643 & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2021). The Active Persistence of Shared Characteristics in an Organized Market. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), article number 14645. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2021.135

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Dowell, G. & Berchicci, L. (2021). Strategy and organization scholarship through a radical sustainability lens: A call for 5.0. Strategic Organization, 19(3), pp. 449-455. doi: 10.1177/14761270211033093

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Kavas, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-6881-2262 & Krull, E. (2021). It’s Practice. But is it Strategy? Reinvigorating Strategy-as-Practice by Rethinking Consequentiality. Organization Theory, 2(3), article number 26317877211029665. doi: 10.1177/26317877211029665

Seidl, D., Le, J. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2021). The Generative Potential of Luhmann’s Theorizing for Paradox Research: Decision Paradox and Deparadoxization. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 73b, pp. 49-64. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x2021000073b004

Keller, J., Carmine, S., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 , Lewis, M. W., Pradies, C., Sharma, G., Smith, W. K. & Vince, R.view all authors (2021). Our Collective Tensions: Paradox Research Community’s Response to COVID-19. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(2), pp. 168-176. doi: 10.1177/1056492620986859

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Langley, A. & Nigam, A. (2021). Navigating the tensions of quality in qualitative research. Strategic Organization, 19(1), pp. 70-80. doi: 10.1177/1476127020985094

Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 (2021). Managing risk as a duality of harm and benefit: A study of organizational risk objects in the global insurance industry. British Journal of Management, 32(1), pp. 235-254. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12389

Weiser, A-K., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Laamanen, T. (2020). Completing the adaptive turn: An integrative view of strategy implementation. The Academy of Management Annals, 14(2), pp. 969-1031. doi: 10.5465/annals.2018.0137

Kavas, M., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Nigam, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-6772-9643 (2020). Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion in Business. Journal of Business Ethics, 163(4), pp. 689-700. doi: 10.1007/s10551-019-04384-5

Hengst, A., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Hoegl, M. & Muethel, M.view all authors (2020). Toward a Process Theory of Making Sustainability Strategies Legitimate in Action. Academy of Management Journal, 63(1), pp. 246-271. doi: 10.5465/amj.2016.0960

Anesa, M., Chalkias, K., Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628 & Spee, A. P.view all authors (2019). Practicing Capitals Across Fields: Extending Bourdieu to Study Inter-Field Dynamics. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 65B, pp. 129-142. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b010

Cacciatori, E. ORCID: 0000-0001-6229-7266, Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Bednarek, R. & Chalkias, K.view all authors (2019). What's in a model? Computer simulations and the management of ignorance. Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2019(1), doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.250

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Le, J. & Balogun, J. (2019). The social practice of co-evolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change. Academy of Management Journal, 62(3), pp. 850-882. doi: 10.5465/amj.2016.0689

Feldman, M., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, K. & Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628view all authors (2019). Routine dynamics in action: replication and transformation. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 61, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x20190000061001

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. & Cacciatori, E.view all authors (2019). Exploring inter-organizational paradoxes: Methodological lessons from a study of a grand challenge. Strategic Organization, 17(1), pp. 120-132. doi: 10.1177/1476127018805345

LeBaron, C., Jarzabkowski, P., Pratt, M. & Fetzer, G.view all authors (2018). An introduction to video methods in organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 21(2), pp. 239-260. doi: 10.1177/1094428117745649

Jarzabkowski, P. & Bednarek, R. (2018). Toward a Social Practice Theory of Relational Competing. Strategic Management Journal, 39(3), pp. 794-829. doi: 10.1002/smj.2724

Jarzabkowski, P. & Lê, J. (2017). We have to do this and that? You must be joking: Constructing and responding to paradox through humour. Organization Studies, 38(3-4), pp. 433-462. doi: 10.1177/0170840616640846

Spee, A. P. & Jarzabkowski, P. (2017). Agreeing on what? creating joint accounts of strategic change. Organization Science, 28(1), pp. 152-176. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2016.1105

Jarzabkowski, P., Kaplan, S., Seidl, D. & Whittington, R.view all authors (2016). On the risk of studying practices in isolation: Linking what, who and how in strategy research. Strategic Organization, 14(3), pp. 248-259. doi: 10.1177/1476127015604125

Jarzabkowski, P., Kaplan, S., Seidl, D. & Whittington, R.view all authors (2016). If you arent talking about practices, dont call it a practice-based view: Rejoinder to Bromiley and Rau in Strategic Organization. Strategic Organization, 14(3), pp. 270-274. doi: 10.1177/1476127016655998

Spee, P., Jarzabkowski, P. & Smets, M. (2016). The influence of routine interdependence and skillful accomplishment on the coordination of standardizing and customizing. Organization Science, 27(3), pp. 759-781. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2016.1050

Bednarek, R., Burke, G., Jarzabkowski, P. & Smets, M.view all authors (2016). Dynamic Client Portfolios as Sources of Ambidexterity: Exploration and Exploitation Within and Across Client Relationships. Long Range Planning, 49(3), pp. 324-341. doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2015.12.003

Le, J. K. & Jarzabkowski, P. (2015). The Role of Task and Process Conflict in Strategizing. British Journal of Management, 26(3), pp. 439-462. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12076

Jarzabkowski, P. & Kaplan, S. (2015). Strategy tools-in-use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice. Strategic Management Journal, 36(4), pp. 537-558. doi: 10.1002/smj.2270

Jarzabkowski, P., Burke, G. & Spee, P. (2015). Constructing Spaces for Strategic Work: A Multimodal Perspective. BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, 26(S1), S26-S47. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12082

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. & Cabantous, L. (2015). Conducting global team-based ethnography: Methodological challenges and practical methods. Human Relations, 68(1), pp. 3-33. doi: 10.1177/0018726714535449

Jarzabkowski, P. & Bednarek, R. (2015). Towards a social-practice theory of competition. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), pp. 720-725. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2015.102

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. & Le, J. K. (2014). Producing persuasive findings: Demystifying ethnographic textwork in strategy and organization research. Strategic Organization, 12(4), pp. 274-287. doi: 10.1177/1476127014554575

Smets, M., Burke, G., Jarzabkowski, P. & Spee, P.view all authors (2014). Charting new territory for organizational ethnography : Insights from a team-based video ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3(1), pp. 10-26. doi: 10.1108/joe-12-2012-0056

Balogun, J., Jacobs, C., Jarzabkowski, P. , Mantere, S. & Vaara, E.view all authors (2014). Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking, and Power. Journal of Management Studies, 51(2), pp. 175-201. doi: 10.1111/joms.12059

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. & Cabantous, L. (2014). Conducting Global Team-based Ethnography: Methodological Challenges and Reflections. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014(1), article number 16809. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2014.16809abstract

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. & Cabantous, L. (2014). Changing competitive dynamics in the reinsurance industry: implications of changes in buyer behavior for reinsurance executives. The Journal of Financial Perspectives, 2(1), pp. 27-38.

Smets, M. & Jarzabkowski, P. (2013). Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity. Human Relations, 66(10), pp. 1279-1309. doi: 10.1177/0018726712471407

Jarzabkowski, P., Le, J. K. & Van de Ven, A. H. (2013). Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve. Strategic Organization, 11(3), pp. 245-280. doi: 10.1177/1476127013481016

Jarzabkowski, P., Paul Spee, A. & Smets, M. (2013). Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'. European Management Journal, 31(1), pp. 41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2012.09.001

Jarzabkowski, P., Giulietti, M., Oliveira, B. & Amoo, N.view all authors (2013). "We Don't Need No Education"-Or Do We? Management Education and Alumni Adoption of Strategy Tools. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22(1), pp. 4-24. doi: 10.1177/1056492612460588

Jarzabkowski, P. & Pinch, T. (2013). Sociomateriality is 'the New Black': Accomplishing repurposing, reinscripting and repairing in context. Management (France), 16(5), pp. 579-592. doi: 10.3917/mana.165.0579

Jarzabkowski, P., Le, J. K. & Feldman, M. S. (2012). Toward a theory of coordinating: Creating coordinating mechanisms in practice. Organization Science, 23(4), pp. 907-927. doi: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0693

Sillince, J., Jarzabkowski, P. & Shaw, D. (2012). Shaping Strategic Action Through the Rhetorical Construction and Exploitation of Ambiguity. Organization Science, 23(3), pp. 630-650. doi: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0670

Jarzabkowski, P. & Balogun, J. (2009). The practice and process of delivering integration through strategic planning. Journal of Management Studies, 46(8), pp. 1255-1288. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00853.x

Spee, P. & Jarzabkowski, P. (2009). Strategy tools as boundary objects. Strategic Organization, 7(2), pp. 223-232. doi: 10.1177/1476127009102674

Jarzabkowski, P. & Spee, A. P. (2009). Strategy-as-practice: A review and future directions for the field. International Journal of Management Reviews, 11(1), pp. 69-95. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2008.00250.x

Jarzabkowski, P. & Seidl, D. (2008). The role of meetings in the social practice of strategy. Organization Studies, 29(11), pp. 1391-1426. doi: 10.1177/0170840608096388

Jarzabkowski, P. (2008). Shaping strategy as a structuration process. Academy of Management Journal, 51(4), pp. 621-650. doi: 10.5465/amj.2008.33664922

Jarzabkowski, P., Balogun, J. & Seidl, D. (2007). Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective. Human Relations, 60(1), pp. 5-27. doi: 10.1177/0018726707075703

Jarzabkowski, P. (2004). Strategy as practice: Recursiveness, adaptation, and practices-in-use. Organization Studies, 25(4), pp. 529-560. doi: 10.1177/0170840604040675

Book

Jarzabkowski, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-8674-6628, Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. ORCID: 0000-0001-6229-7266 & Bednarek, R.view all authors (2023). Disaster Insurance Reimagined Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Book Section

Andriopoulos, C. & Gotsi, M. (2017). Methods of Paradox. In: Smith, W. K., Lewis, M. W., Jarzabkowski, P. & Langley, A.view all authors (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox. (pp. 513-529). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754428.001.0001

Report

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, G., Burke, G. & Cabantous, L.view all authors (2012). Beyond Borders: Charting the Changing Global Reinsurance Landscape. Cass Business School, City University London.

Jarzabkowski, P., Smets, M. & Spee, A. P. (2010). Trading risks: The value of relationships, models and face-to-face interaction in the global reinsurance market. Aston University.