Professor Robert Chia

Research Professor in Management (Management)

Adam Smith Business School, Main Building, Universtiy Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8qq

Biography

Robert Chia is Research Professor of Management at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. He holds a PhD in Organization Studies (Lancaster), an MA with distinction in Organizational Analysis, a Diploma in Training and Development Management, and a Technical Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Singapore Polytechnic. He is an elected Fellow (by invitation) of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, (FRSA) United Kingdom, as well as a former invited member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS), UK.

Prior to entering academia, Robert worked for 16 years in aircraft maintenance engineering, manufacturing management and human resource management for a large multinational corporation based in the Asia Pacific. As an academic, he has held various positions including professorial appointments at the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and Strathclyde prior to taking up his research professorship at the University of Glasgow. Robert has consulted extensively with well-known international organizations and institutions such as the International Federation of Red Cross (Geneva), British Airways, BNFL, British Aerospace, Ciba-Geigy and Cathay Pacific Airlines. He has been invited to give numerous keynote presentations at major academic conferences as well as in practitioner conferences.

Research interests

Robert is a member of the Strategy and Technology Management research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Decision-Making & Unintended Consequences;
Strategic Capabilities, Action & Practice;
Organizing/Organizational Functions/Dysfunctions;
The Aim of University Business Schools;
East-West Mentalities & Predispositions and their Implications for Business Practices.

Publications

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Number of items: 88.

2025

Omidvar, Omid, Hadjimichael, Demetris, Burke, Gary T. and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2025) Temporal patterns in management: integrating perspectives on rhythms of work and organizing. Academy of Management Annals, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Adekola, Josephine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-4985 and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2024) Stakeholder theory, public engagement, and epistemic injustice: the case of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Scotland’s African, Caribbean, and Black communities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 15, pp. 552-564. (doi: 10.1007/s13753-024-00572-8)

2023

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, Robin (2023) Strategy, intentionality and success: four logics for explaining strategic action. Organization Theory, 4(3), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1177/26317877231186436)

Zhou, Qijun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-6756, Dekkers, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-5490 and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2023) Are James March’s ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, 122592. (doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122592)

Chia, Robert C.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Mackay, David (2023) Strategy-In-Practices: A Process-Philosophical Perspective on Strategy-Making. Series: Elements in business strategy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009096485 (doi: 10.1017/9781009099592)

Yuan, Li, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Gosling, Jonathan (2023) Confucian virtue ethics and ethical leadership in modern China. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), pp. 110-133. (doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-05026-5)

2022

Valentinov, Vladislav and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2022) Stakeholder theory: a process-ontological perspective. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 31(3), pp. 762-776. (doi: 10.1111/beer.12441)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Rasche, Andreas (2022) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews. In: Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice [Third Edition]. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)

2021

MacKay, Brad, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Nair, Anup Karath (2021) Strategy-in-practices: a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes. Human Relations, 74(9), pp. 1337-1369. (doi: 10.1177/0018726720929397)

2020

Nayak, Ajit, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Canales, Ignacio (2020) Noncognitive microfoundations: understanding dynamic capabilities as idiosyncractically refined sensitivities and predispositions. Academy of Management Review, 45(2), pp. 280-303. (doi: 10.5465/amr.2016.0253)

2019

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2019) Becoming a learning organisation: A process-philosophical perspective. In: Ortenblad, Anders (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780198832355 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.29)

Bouty, Isabelle, Gomez, Marie-Leandre and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2019) Strategy emergence as wayfinding. Management, 22(3), pp. 438-465.

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2019) Before and beyond paradigms in organization studies: back to the ‘rough ground’. Studi di Sociologia, 2019(1), pp. 57-68. (doi: 10.26350/000309_000051)

2018

Zhou, Q. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-6756, Dekkers, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-5490 and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2018) How Ambidextrous Are They Actually? An Empirical Test of Exploration and Exploitation as Innovation Capabilities Using Data Envelopment Analysis. 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Porto, Portugal, 10-13 Jun 2018.

2017

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Nayak, Ajit (2017) Circumventing the logic and limits of representation: Otherness in east-west approaches to paradox approaches. In: Smith, Wendy K., Lewis, Marianne W., Jarzabkowski, Paula and Langley, Ann (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox: Approaches to Plurality, Tensions, and Contradictions. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198754428

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2017) A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as 'wayfinding': process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances. Learning Organization, 24(2), pp. 107-118. (doi: 10.1108/TLO-11-2016-0083)

2016

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Nayak, Ajit (2016) The art of relevation/revelation: a Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Steyaert, Chris, Beyes, Timon and Parker, Martin (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London, pp. 120-132. ISBN 9780415727372

Bosma, Bas, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Fouweather, Ian (2016) Radical learning through semantic transformation capitalizing on novelty. Management Learning, 47(1), pp. 14-27. (doi: 10.1177/1350507615602480)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2016) Process, practices, and organizational competitiveness: understanding dynamic capabilities through a process philosophical worldview. In: Langley, Ann and Tsoukas, Haridimos (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies. SAGE Publications: London. ISBN 9781446297018

Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-5490 and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: Forum Innovation VII, Paris, France, 9-11 June 2016,

Zhou, Qijun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-6756, Dekkers, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-5490 and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: R&D Management Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK, 3-7 July 2016,

2014

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2014) Reflections on the distinctiveness of European management scholarship. European Management Journal, 32(5), pp. 683-688. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2014.06.002)

Nonaka, Ikujiro, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517, Holt, Robin and Peltokorpi, Vesa (2014) Wisdom, management and organization. Management Learning, 45(4), pp. 365-376. (doi: 10.1177/1350507614542901)

Paton, Steve, Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Burt, George (2014) Relevance or 'relevate'? How university business schools can add value through reflexively learning from strategic partnerships with business. Management Learning, 45(3), pp. 267-288. (doi: 10.1177/1350507613479541)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2014) From relevance to relevate: how university-based business school can remain seats of “higher” learning and still contribute effectively to business. Journal of Management Development, 33(5), pp. 443-455. (doi: 10.1108/JMD-02-2014-0013)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2014) Reflections: In praise of silent transformation: Allowing change through ‘letting happen’. Journal of Change Management, 14(1), pp. 8-27. (doi: 10.1080/14697017.2013.841006)

2013

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517, Holt, R. and Li, Y. (2013) In praise of strategic indirection: Towards a non-instrumental understanding of phronésis as practical wisdom. In: Thompson, M. and Bevan, D. (eds.) Wise Management in Organizational Complexity. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 53-67. ISBN 9781137002655 (doi: 10.1057/9781137002655_4)

MacKay, B. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2013) Choice, chance and unintended consequences in strategic change: a process understanding of the rise and fall of Northco Automotive. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), pp. 208-230. (doi: 10.5465/amj.2010.0734)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2013) Paradigms and perspectives in organizational project management research: implications for knowledge-creation. In: Drouin, N., Müller, R. and Shankar, S. (eds.) Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational. Series: Advances in organisation studies. Copenhagen Business Press: Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 33-55. ISBN 9788763002493

2012

Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2012) Reflexive practice and the making of elite business careers. Management Learning, 43(4), pp. 385-404. (doi: 10.1177/1350507612449680)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Nayak, A. (2012) Décisions dramatiques ou incisions imperceptibles? Vers une théorie de la prise de décision en devenir. Revue Française de Gestion, 225(June), pp. 147-166.

Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2012) Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers. Human Relations, 65(1), pp. 17-40. (doi: 10.1177/0018726711425616)

2011

Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (Eds.) (2011) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK. ISBN 9780857245953

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2011) Complex thinking: Towards an oblique strategy for dealing with the complex. In: Allen, P., Maguire, S. and McKelvey, B. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781847875693

Nayak, A. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2011) Thinking becoming and emergence: Process philosophy and organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 281-309. ISBN 9780857245953

Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2011) Introduction: Why philosophy matters to organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780857245953

Yuan, L. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2011) The effect of traditional Chinese fuzzy thinking on human resource practices in mainland China. Chinese Management Studies, 5(4), pp. 431-449. (doi: 10.1108/17506141111183479)

2010

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2010) Rediscovering becoming: Insights from an Oriental perspective on process organization studies. In: Hernes, S. and Maitlis, S. (eds.) Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing. Series: Perspectives on process organization studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 112-139. ISBN 9780199594566

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2010) Shifting paradigms through "letting go": On allowing oneself to become a management education scholar. In: Wankel, C. and DeFillippi, B. (eds.) Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar. Series: Research in management education and development. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC, USA, pp. 11-41. ISBN 9781607523475

Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2010) Dominant corporate agents and the power elite in France and Britain. Organization Studies, 31(3), pp. 327-348. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609357377)

Rasche, A. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2010) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy-as-practice: Building and dwelling worldviews. In: Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 34-46. ISBN 9780521517287

2009

Rasche, A. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2009) Researching strategy practices: A genealogical social theory perspective. Organization Studies, 30(7), pp. 713-734. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609104809)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2009) The nature of knowledge and knowing in the context of management learning, education and development. In: Armstrong, S. and Fukami, C. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development. SAGE: London, UK, pp. 23-41. ISBN 9781412935395

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2009) Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521189859

Pavlovich, K. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2009) Perplexity, process and practice. In: Lowe, S. (ed.) Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager. Response Books: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, pp. 113-134. ISBN 9788132102335

2008

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2008) The nature of knowledge in business schools. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7(4), pp. 471-486. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882188)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2008) Enhancing entrepreneurial learning through peripheral vision. In: Harrison, R. and Leitch, C. (eds.) Entrepreneurial Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Applications. Series: Routledge studies in entrepreneurship. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9780415394161

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2008) Feeding marshmallows to alligators: The inherent fragility of human organization. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. (eds.) Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA. ISBN 9781412912181

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2008) On managerial knowledge. Management Learning, 39(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607087579)

2007

O'Leary, M. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2007) Epistemes and structures of sensemaking in organizational life. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(4), pp. 392-406. (doi: 10.1177/1056492607310976)

Harrison, R.T., Leitch, C.M. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2007) Developing paradigmatic awareness in University Business Schools: The challenge for executive education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6(3), pp. 332-343. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2007.26361624)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2007) Ontology. In: Clegg, S.R. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. SAGE: London, UK. ISBN 9781412915151

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2007) Wisdom as learning ignorance: Integrating East-West persepectives. In: Kessler, E.H. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 505-526. ISBN 9781412915618

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and MacKay, B. (2007) Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice. Human Relations, 60(1), pp. 217-242. (doi: 10.1177/0018726707075291)

Nayak, A., Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2007) Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and Indian business elites. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 1(1/2), p. 9. (doi: 10.1504/IJICBM.2007.014468)

Pina e Cunha, M. and Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2007) Using teams to avoid peripheral blindness. Long Range Planning, 40(6), pp. 559-573. (doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2007.08.004)

2006

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2006) Strategy as practical coping: A Heideggerian perspective. Organization Studies, 27(5), pp. 635-655. (doi: 10.1177/0170840606064102)

2005

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2005) Book Review: The Aim of Management Education: Reflections on Mintzberg’s Managers not MBAs. Organization Studies, 26(7), pp. 1090-1092. (doi: 10.1177/017084060502600707)[Book Review]

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2005) A Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Riffert, Franz G. (ed.) Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, pp. 215-235. ISBN 9781904303572

2004

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2004) Re-educating attention: what is foresight and how is it cultivated? In: Tsoukas, Haridimos and Shepherd, Jill (eds.) Managing the Future: Strategic Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 21-37. ISBN 9781405116145

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2004) The shaping of dominant modes of thought: rediscovering the foundations of management knowledge. In: Jeffcutt, Paul (ed.) The Foundations of Management Knowledge. Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies (23). Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 169-187. ISBN 9780415207782

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2004) Strategy-as-practice: reflections on the research agenda. European Management Review, 1(1), pp. 29-34. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500012)

2003

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2003) From knowledge-creation to the perfecting of action: Tao, Basho and pure experience as the ultimate ground of knowing. Human Relations, 56(8), pp. 953-981. (doi: 10.1177/00187267030568003)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2003) Organization theory as postmodern science. In: Tsoukas, Haridimos and Knudsen, Christian (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford ; New York, pp. 113-140. ISBN 9780199258321

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Tsoukas, H. (2003) Everything changes and nothing endures... Process Studies, 32(2), pp. 196-224.

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2003) Ontology: organization as World-making. In: Westwood, Robert and Clegg, Stewart (eds.) Debating Organization: Point/Counterpoint in Organization Studies. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, Mass ; Oxford, pp. 98-113. ISBN 9780631216926

2002

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2002) Time, duration and simultaneity: rethinking process and change in organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 23(6), pp. 863-868. (doi: 10.1177/0170840602236007)

Tsoukas, Haridimos and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2002) On organizational becoming: rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13(5), pp. 567-582. (doi: 10.1287/orsc.13.5.567.7810)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2002) Postmodernism and management. In: Warner, Malcolm (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management [2nd Edition]. Thomson Learning: London, pp. 5360-5368. ISBN 9781861521613

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2002) The production of management knowledge: philosophical underpinnings of research design. In: Partington, David (ed.) Essential Skills for Management Research. SAGE Publications: London, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780761970071

2001

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and King, I. (2001) The language of organization theory. In: Westwood, Robert and Linstead, Stephen (eds.) The Language of Organization. SAGE: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 310-328. ISBN 9780761953340

2000

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2000) Discourse analysis as organizational analysis. Organization, 7(3), pp. 513-518. (doi: 10.1177/135050840073009)

1999

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1999) A 'rhizomic' model of organizational change and transformation: perspective from a metaphysics of change. British Journal of Management, 10(3), pp. 209-227. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.00128)

1998

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and King, Ian W. (1998) The organizational structuring of novelty. Organization, 5(4), pp. 461-478. (doi: 10.1177/135050849854002)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1998) From complexity science to complex thinking: organization as simple location. Organization, 5(3), pp. 341-369. (doi: 10.1177/135050849853003)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (Ed.) (1998) In the Realm of Organization: Essays for Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415126991

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (Ed.) (1998) Organized Worlds: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415127561

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1998) Exploring the expanded Realm of Technology, Organization and Modernity. In: Chia, R. (ed.) Organized Words: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780415127561

1997

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1997) Thirty years on: from organizational structures to the organization of thought. Organization Studies, 18(4), pp. 685-707. (doi: 10.1177/017084069701800406)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1997) Process philosophy and management learning: the role of foresight in management education. In: Burgoyne, John and Reynolds, Michael (eds.) Management Learning: Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice. SAGE: London, pp. 71-88. ISBN 9780803976436

1996

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1996) Teaching paradigm shifting in management education: university business schools and the entrepreneurial imagination. Journal of Management Studies, 33(4), pp. 409-428. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1996.tb00162.x)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Morgan, Stuart (1996) Educating the philosopher-manager: de-signing the times. Management Learning, 27(1), pp. 37-64. (doi: 10.1177/1350507696271004)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1996) The problem of reflexivity in organizational research: towards a postmodern science of organization. Organization, 3(1), pp. 31-59. (doi: 10.1177/135050849631003)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1996) Metaphors and metaphorization in organizational analysis: thinking the unthinkable. In: Grant, David and Oswick, Cliff (eds.) Metaphor and Organizations. SAGE Publications: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 127-145. ISBN 9780803976290

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1996) Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice. Series: De Gruyter studies in organization (77). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin ; New York. ISBN 9783110145595

1995

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1995) From modern to postmodern organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 16(4), pp. 579-604. (doi: 10.1177/017084069501600406)

1994

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1994) The concept of decision: a deconstructive analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 31(6), pp. 781-806. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1994.tb00639.x)

1991

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1991) The management development process: puzzle solving or paradigm shifting? Management Research News, 14(7/8/9), pp. 57-60. (doi: 10.1108/eb028156)

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Articles

Bouty, Isabelle, Gomez, Marie-Leandre and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2019) Strategy emergence as wayfinding. Management, 22(3), pp. 438-465.

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2008) On managerial knowledge. Management Learning, 39(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607087579)

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Tsoukas, H. (2003) Everything changes and nothing endures... Process Studies, 32(2), pp. 196-224.

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2000) Discourse analysis as organizational analysis. Organization, 7(3), pp. 513-518. (doi: 10.1177/135050840073009)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and King, Ian W. (1998) The organizational structuring of novelty. Organization, 5(4), pp. 461-478. (doi: 10.1177/135050849854002)

Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (1995) From modern to postmodern organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 16(4), pp. 579-604. (doi: 10.1177/017084069501600406)

Books

Chia, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 and Holt, R. (2009) Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521189859

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Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (Ed.) (1998) In the Realm of Organization: Essays for Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415126991

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Conference Proceedings

Zhou, Qijun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-6756, Dekkers, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-5490 and Chia, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-0517 (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: R&D Management Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK, 3-7 July 2016,

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Executive Education: Strategic Thinking/Practice
MBA: Scenarios Thinking

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EGOS 2015 Symposium, Athens
Strategy Process Sub-Plenary EGOS 2014 Symposium, Rotterdam
Strategy AS Practice Sub-Plenary EGOS 2016, Naples
Strategy Conference: ‘Practices, Processes, Governance’, Edinburgh Business School, April 2015
East-West Conference: Rebuilding Management Theory with Inspiration from China, Stockholm Business School, Aug 2014.

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Robert has published extensively in top international management and organization journals including:

Organization Science
Organization Studies
Organization
Human Relations
Long Range Planning
British Journal of Management
Academy of Management Journal
Journal of Management Studies
Management Learning
Academy of Management Learning and Education
Journal of Management Inquiry and Revue Française de Gestion.

He is the author/editor of five books as well as book chapters in a variety of management sub-fields. His latest books include Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action (with Robin Holt), published by Cambridge University Press, 2009 and Philosophy and Organization Theory: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald Group Publishing. He has been a senior editor with the international journal Organization Studies and is on the international advisory board of several established management journals including Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, European Management Journal, Journal of Change Management and the Journal of Chinese Management.

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Cambridge University
Warwick University
Cranfield University
Exeter University
University of Lund (Sweden)
University of Limburg (Belgium)
Norwegian BI Business School (Oslo)
University of Bristol
University of Lancaster
University of East Anglia

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University of Nottingham,
Strathclyde University
Queens University Belfast

Professor Robert Chia, Research Professor in Management

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