Professor Sabina Keston-Siebert

  • Professor of Management (Management)

telephone: 01413303034
email: Sabina.Siebert@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X

Biography

Sabina currently works as a Professor of Management in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. With her background in linguistics, literature and cultural studies she started her career as a tutor in British culture in the University of Łódź, and a tutor in Slavonic culture at the University of Glasgow. Her interest in social-cultural theory and research into representations of working-class culture brought her closer to the area organisational sociology, which consequently led to a move to Caledonian Business School where she worked in the Department of People Management, and the Department of Cultural Business. In 2010, she moved to the University of Glasgow where she researches and teaches in the area of change management, organizational behaviour and human resource management.

Research interests

Sabina is a member of the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Organisation studies
  • Organisational theory
  • Human resource management
  • Organisational trust
  • Management in the creative industries

Publications

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Number of items: 64.

2025

Keston-Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Orr, Kevin (2025) Zeitgeist and Ortgeist: time and place in institutional creation. British Journal of Management, (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12925) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Božič, Branko and Keston-Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) The profession that came in from the cold: trust and distrust in espionage. Journal of Professions and Organization, 11(3), pp. 195-215. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joae009)

Bilsland, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Walking interviews in organizational research. European Management Journal, 42(2), pp. 161-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.008)

Meakin, Alexandra and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Custodians of the Palace of Westminster. Parliamentary Affairs, 77(2), pp. 240-261. (doi: 10.1093/pa/gsad001)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Buildings and institutional change: stepping stones or stumbling blocks? British Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 281-294. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12711)

2023

Czarniawska, Barbara, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Mackay, John (2023) Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035301249

2021

Orr, Kevin and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2021) The Scottish Parliament: how the Parliament building shapes the workings of the institution. SPICe Briefing. Documentation. Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK.

Martin, Graeme, Bushfield, Stacey, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Howieson, Brian (2021) Changing logics in healthcare and their effects on the identity motives and identity work of doctors. Organization Studies, 42(9), pp. 1477-1499. (doi: 10.1177/0170840619895871)

2020

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Czarniawska, Barbara (2020) Distrust: not only in secret service organizations. Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(3), pp. 286-298. (doi: 10.1177/1056492618798939)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Simpson, Gavin (2020) Rhetorical strategies of legitimation in the professional field of banking. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(2), pp. 134-155. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa010)

Božič, Branko, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2020) A grounded theory study of factors and conditions associated with customer trust recovery in a retailer. Journal of Business Research, 109, pp. 440-448. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.032)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Symbolic demarcation: the role of status symbols in preserving interprofessional boundaries. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(1), pp. 47-69. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa004)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Schreven, Stephanie (2020) Protean uses of trust: a curious case of science hoaxes. Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne, 9(2), pp. 216-230. (doi: 10.18778/2450-4491.09.15)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Restoration and Renewal of Parliament: Buildings as a Vehicle for Change. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.223191).

Bilsland, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Keeping P(l)ace with Thoughts: The Value of Walking Interviews in Organizational Research. 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2020), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 7-11 Aug 2020. p. 16569. (Unpublished)

2019

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2019) ‘A deeply troubled organization’: organizational satire in the BBC’s W1A comedy series. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 56-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2018.08.002)

Bozic, Branko, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2019) A strategic action fields perspective on organizational trust repair. European Management Journal, 37(1), pp. 58-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2018.04.005)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2019) Universities and unpaid work: Louis Althusser re-visited. In: Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty. Springer: Cham, pp. 125-135. ISBN 9783030159696 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15970-2_9)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Insall, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X and Machesky, Laura M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-9856 (2019) More means less: managing overflow in science publishing. In: Czarniawska, Barbara and Löfgren, Orvar (eds.) Overwhelmed by Overflows? How People and Organizations Create and Manage Excess. Lund University Press: Lund, pp. 130-150. ISBN 9789198469813 (doi: 10.7765/9789198469813.00013)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Szczepanik, Renata (2019) Schütze, Fritz. In: Atkinson, P.A., Delamont, S., Williams, R. and Cernat, A. (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations: an Encyclopedia. SAGE. ISBN 9781526421036 (doi: 10.4135/9781526421036796496)

2018

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Bozic, Branko (2018) 'Organizational recidivism' and trust repair: a story of failed detectives. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 5(4), pp. 328-345. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-07-2018-0054)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2018) The "champagne tower" of science publishing. International Higher Education, 94, pp. 21-22. (doi: 10.6017/ihe.2018.0.10564)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Bushfield, Stacey, Martin, Graeme and Howieson, Brian (2018) Eroding 'respectability': deprofessionalization through organizational spaces. Work, Employment and Society, 32(2), pp. 330-347. (doi: 10.1177/0950017017726948)

Gillespie, Nicole and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2018) Organizational trust repair. In: Searle, Rosalind H., Nienaber, Ann-Marie I. and Sitkin, Sim B. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Trust. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London, pp. 284-301. ISBN 9781138817593

Martin, Graeme, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Robson, Ian (2018) Conformist innovation: An institutional logics perspective on how HR executives construct business school reputations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(13), pp. 2027-2053. (doi: 10.1080/09585192.2016.1239118)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, G., Bozic, B. and Docherty, I. (2018) Revisiting industrial sociology to shed new light on organizational trust repair. In: 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, 9-13 Aug 2013, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.14479abstract)

2017

Gordon, Lisi, Jindal-Snape, Divya, Morrison, Jillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-1516, Muldoon, Janine, Needham, Gillian, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Rees, Charlotte (2017) Multiple and multidimensional transitions from trainee to trained doctor: a qualitative longitudinal study in the UK. BMJ Open, 7(11), e018583. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018583) (PMID:29196486) (PMCID:PMC5719319)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (Ed.) (2017) Management Research: European Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138721463

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John R.A. (2017) 'Devils may sit here': the role of enchantment in institutional maintenance. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), pp. 1607-1632. (doi: 10.5465/amj.2014.0487)

Jindal-Snape, D., Rees-Sidhu, C., Gordon, L., Needham, G., Morrison, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-1516 and Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2017) Exploring the transition experiences of higher stage medical trainees: a longitudinal audio-diary study across the trainee-trained doctor transition. Project Report. Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC).

Zyglidopoulos, S., Bilsland, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596, Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Jorgensen, J. (2017) A Resource-Dependency Perspective on how Organizations Engage in Trust Repair: The Case of SNC-Lavalin. In: 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, 6-8 Jul 2017,

2016

Szczepanik, Renata and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2016) The triple bind of narration: Fritz Schütze’s biographical interview in prison research and beyond. Sociology, 50(2), pp. 285-300. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515570145)

Martin, Graeme and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2016) Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138786653

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Bozic, Branko (2016) Research into employee trust: epistemological foundations and paradigmatic boundaries. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(3), pp. 269-284. (doi: 10.1111/1748-8583.12103)

2015

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Machesky, Laura M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-9856 and Insall, Robert H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X (2015) Overflow in science and its implications for trust. eLife, 4, e10825. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10825)

Martin, Graeme, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Howieson, Brian and Bushfield, Stacey (2015) The Changing Experience of Work of Consultants in NHS Scotland. Project Report. British Medical Association.

McCalman, James, Paton, Robert A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-5730 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2015) Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation. 4th edition. Sage: London. ISBN 9781446274101

Okpanum, I., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2015) Intra-Organizational Trust: Employee Attribution of CEO's Religious Convictions. In: 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2-4 Jul 2015, (Unpublished)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Simpson, G. and Martin, G. (2015) Rhetorical Strategies, Legitimacy and Bankers' Justifications. In: 75th Academy of Management Colloquium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7-11 Aug 2015, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme, Bozic, Branko and Docherty, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4070-4294 (2015) Looking 'beyond the factory gates': towards more pluralist and radical approaches to intra-organizational trust research. Organization Studies, 36(8), pp. 1033-1062. (doi: 10.1177/0170840615580010)

2014

Szczepanik, Renata, Simpson, Gavin and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2014) Prison officers in Poland: A profession in historical perspective. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47(1), pp. 49-58. (doi: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.01.002)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2014) Public Sector: Taking the Employee Engagement Agenda Forward. In: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Knowledge into Practice Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) Organizational Recidivism and Trust Repair. In: 30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) Organizational Trust Repair Through Inaction: An Alternative Perspective. In: First International Trust Network Conference, Coventry, England, 4-8 Nov 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) People management rationales and organizational effectiveness: the case of organizational trust repair. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 1(2), pp. 177-190. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-03-2014-0011)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John (2014) Institutional Maintenance in an Elite Organization. In: 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1-5 Aug 2014, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2014.15696a) (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John (2014) Institutional Work: An Organizational Geography Perspective. In: 28th Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2014), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec 2014, (Unpublished)

2013

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Wilson, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2013) All work and no pay: consequences of unpaid work experience in the creative industries. Work, Employment and Society, 27(4), pp. 711-721. (doi: 10.1177/0950017012474708)

Martin, G., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Bozic, B. (2013) Re-conceptualising organizational trust repair: the case of repeated transgressions. In: 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, 9-13 Aug 2013, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2013.10446abstract)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Bozic, B., Martin, G. and Docherty, I. (2013) What do Burrell and Morgan's sociological paradigms and Fox's frames of reference tell us about organizational trust and the trust repair literature? In: 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents: Cultures and Worldviews, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 Jul 2013,

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Costley, C. (2013) Conflicting values in reflection on professional practice. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 3(3), pp. 156-167. (doi: 10.1108/HESWBL-07-2011-0032)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2013) Reputational challenges for business schools: a contextual perspective. Education and Training, 55(4/5), pp. 429-444. (doi: 10.1108/00400911311326054)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Walsh, A. (2013) Reflection in work-based learning: self-regulation or self-liberation? Teaching in Higher Education, 18(2), pp. 167-178. (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2012.696539)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2013) Learning from the Devilmaster. Project Report. Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. (Unpublished)

2012

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Anker, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-2941 (2012) Discovering new worlds: the transformative power of narrative theories in management. In: Narrative Magic: Transformations Through Story-Telling, Glasgow, UK, 5 Nov 2012,

Spilg, E., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2012) A social learning perspective on the development of doctors in the UK National Health Service. Social Science and Medicine, 75(9), pp. 1617-1624. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.014)

2011

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2011) Are trade unions learning? Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 1(2), pp. 91-94. (doi: 10.1108/20423891111128863)

2009

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2009) Gender balance in Scottish Local Authority councils. Public Policy and Administration, 24(2), pp. 175-193. (doi: 10.1177/0952076708100878)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2009) Feedback on assessment via Gradebook (electronic coursework submission system). Project Report. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Cowan, J. (2009) IT support for external assessors? British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(5), pp. 948-949. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00878.x)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Mills, V. and Tuff, C. (2009) Pedagogy of work-based learning: the role of the learning group. Journal of Workplace Learning, 21(6), pp. 443-454. (doi: 10.1108/13665620910976720)

2008

Mills, V., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Tuff, C. (2008) Emerging models of work-based learning in Scottish higher education. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. ISBN 9781844828562

2007

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Mills, V. (2007) The quest for autonomy: a Foucauldian perspective on work-based research. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 12(3), pp. 309-317. (doi: 10.1080/13596740701559746)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2007) Gender Balance in Community and Local Authority Councils. Project Report. Scottish Adult Learning Partnership, Edinburgh. (Unpublished)

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Articles

Keston-Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Orr, Kevin (2025) Zeitgeist and Ortgeist: time and place in institutional creation. British Journal of Management, (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12925) (Early Online Publication)

Božič, Branko and Keston-Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) The profession that came in from the cold: trust and distrust in espionage. Journal of Professions and Organization, 11(3), pp. 195-215. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joae009)

Bilsland, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Walking interviews in organizational research. European Management Journal, 42(2), pp. 161-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.008)

Meakin, Alexandra and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Custodians of the Palace of Westminster. Parliamentary Affairs, 77(2), pp. 240-261. (doi: 10.1093/pa/gsad001)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2024) Buildings and institutional change: stepping stones or stumbling blocks? British Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 281-294. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12711)

Martin, Graeme, Bushfield, Stacey, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Howieson, Brian (2021) Changing logics in healthcare and their effects on the identity motives and identity work of doctors. Organization Studies, 42(9), pp. 1477-1499. (doi: 10.1177/0170840619895871)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Czarniawska, Barbara (2020) Distrust: not only in secret service organizations. Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(3), pp. 286-298. (doi: 10.1177/1056492618798939)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Simpson, Gavin (2020) Rhetorical strategies of legitimation in the professional field of banking. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(2), pp. 134-155. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa010)

Božič, Branko, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2020) A grounded theory study of factors and conditions associated with customer trust recovery in a retailer. Journal of Business Research, 109, pp. 440-448. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.12.032)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Symbolic demarcation: the role of status symbols in preserving interprofessional boundaries. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(1), pp. 47-69. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa004)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Schreven, Stephanie (2020) Protean uses of trust: a curious case of science hoaxes. Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne, 9(2), pp. 216-230. (doi: 10.18778/2450-4491.09.15)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2019) ‘A deeply troubled organization’: organizational satire in the BBC’s W1A comedy series. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 35(1), pp. 56-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2018.08.002)

Bozic, Branko, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2019) A strategic action fields perspective on organizational trust repair. European Management Journal, 37(1), pp. 58-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2018.04.005)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Bozic, Branko (2018) 'Organizational recidivism' and trust repair: a story of failed detectives. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 5(4), pp. 328-345. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-07-2018-0054)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2018) The "champagne tower" of science publishing. International Higher Education, 94, pp. 21-22. (doi: 10.6017/ihe.2018.0.10564)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Bushfield, Stacey, Martin, Graeme and Howieson, Brian (2018) Eroding 'respectability': deprofessionalization through organizational spaces. Work, Employment and Society, 32(2), pp. 330-347. (doi: 10.1177/0950017017726948)

Martin, Graeme, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Robson, Ian (2018) Conformist innovation: An institutional logics perspective on how HR executives construct business school reputations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(13), pp. 2027-2053. (doi: 10.1080/09585192.2016.1239118)

Gordon, Lisi, Jindal-Snape, Divya, Morrison, Jillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-1516, Muldoon, Janine, Needham, Gillian, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Rees, Charlotte (2017) Multiple and multidimensional transitions from trainee to trained doctor: a qualitative longitudinal study in the UK. BMJ Open, 7(11), e018583. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018583) (PMID:29196486) (PMCID:PMC5719319)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John R.A. (2017) 'Devils may sit here': the role of enchantment in institutional maintenance. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), pp. 1607-1632. (doi: 10.5465/amj.2014.0487)

Szczepanik, Renata and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2016) The triple bind of narration: Fritz Schütze’s biographical interview in prison research and beyond. Sociology, 50(2), pp. 285-300. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515570145)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme and Bozic, Branko (2016) Research into employee trust: epistemological foundations and paradigmatic boundaries. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(3), pp. 269-284. (doi: 10.1111/1748-8583.12103)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Machesky, Laura M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-9856 and Insall, Robert H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X (2015) Overflow in science and its implications for trust. eLife, 4, e10825. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10825)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, Graeme, Bozic, Branko and Docherty, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4070-4294 (2015) Looking 'beyond the factory gates': towards more pluralist and radical approaches to intra-organizational trust research. Organization Studies, 36(8), pp. 1033-1062. (doi: 10.1177/0170840615580010)

Szczepanik, Renata, Simpson, Gavin and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2014) Prison officers in Poland: A profession in historical perspective. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47(1), pp. 49-58. (doi: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.01.002)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) People management rationales and organizational effectiveness: the case of organizational trust repair. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 1(2), pp. 177-190. (doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-03-2014-0011)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Wilson, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2013) All work and no pay: consequences of unpaid work experience in the creative industries. Work, Employment and Society, 27(4), pp. 711-721. (doi: 10.1177/0950017012474708)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Costley, C. (2013) Conflicting values in reflection on professional practice. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 3(3), pp. 156-167. (doi: 10.1108/HESWBL-07-2011-0032)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2013) Reputational challenges for business schools: a contextual perspective. Education and Training, 55(4/5), pp. 429-444. (doi: 10.1108/00400911311326054)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Walsh, A. (2013) Reflection in work-based learning: self-regulation or self-liberation? Teaching in Higher Education, 18(2), pp. 167-178. (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2012.696539)

Spilg, E., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2012) A social learning perspective on the development of doctors in the UK National Health Service. Social Science and Medicine, 75(9), pp. 1617-1624. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.014)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2011) Are trade unions learning? Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 1(2), pp. 91-94. (doi: 10.1108/20423891111128863)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2009) Gender balance in Scottish Local Authority councils. Public Policy and Administration, 24(2), pp. 175-193. (doi: 10.1177/0952076708100878)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Cowan, J. (2009) IT support for external assessors? British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(5), pp. 948-949. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00878.x)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Mills, V. and Tuff, C. (2009) Pedagogy of work-based learning: the role of the learning group. Journal of Workplace Learning, 21(6), pp. 443-454. (doi: 10.1108/13665620910976720)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Mills, V. (2007) The quest for autonomy: a Foucauldian perspective on work-based research. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 12(3), pp. 309-317. (doi: 10.1080/13596740701559746)

Books

Czarniawska, Barbara, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Mackay, John (2023) Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035301249

Martin, Graeme and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2016) Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138786653

McCalman, James, Paton, Robert A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-5730 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2015) Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation. 4th edition. Sage: London. ISBN 9781446274101

Mills, V., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Tuff, C. (2008) Emerging models of work-based learning in Scottish higher education. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. ISBN 9781844828562

Book Sections

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2019) Universities and unpaid work: Louis Althusser re-visited. In: Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty. Springer: Cham, pp. 125-135. ISBN 9783030159696 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15970-2_9)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Insall, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X and Machesky, Laura M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-9856 (2019) More means less: managing overflow in science publishing. In: Czarniawska, Barbara and Löfgren, Orvar (eds.) Overwhelmed by Overflows? How People and Organizations Create and Manage Excess. Lund University Press: Lund, pp. 130-150. ISBN 9789198469813 (doi: 10.7765/9789198469813.00013)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Szczepanik, Renata (2019) Schütze, Fritz. In: Atkinson, P.A., Delamont, S., Williams, R. and Cernat, A. (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations: an Encyclopedia. SAGE. ISBN 9781526421036 (doi: 10.4135/9781526421036796496)

Gillespie, Nicole and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2018) Organizational trust repair. In: Searle, Rosalind H., Nienaber, Ann-Marie I. and Sitkin, Sim B. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Trust. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London, pp. 284-301. ISBN 9781138817593

Edited Books

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (Ed.) (2017) Management Research: European Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138721463

Research Reports or Papers

Orr, Kevin and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2021) The Scottish Parliament: how the Parliament building shapes the workings of the institution. SPICe Briefing. Documentation. Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK.

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Restoration and Renewal of Parliament: Buildings as a Vehicle for Change. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.223191).

Jindal-Snape, D., Rees-Sidhu, C., Gordon, L., Needham, G., Morrison, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-1516 and Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2017) Exploring the transition experiences of higher stage medical trainees: a longitudinal audio-diary study across the trainee-trained doctor transition. Project Report. Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC).

Martin, Graeme, Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Howieson, Brian and Bushfield, Stacey (2015) The Changing Experience of Work of Consultants in NHS Scotland. Project Report. British Medical Association.

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2013) Learning from the Devilmaster. Project Report. Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. (Unpublished)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2009) Feedback on assessment via Gradebook (electronic coursework submission system). Project Report. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2007) Gender Balance in Community and Local Authority Councils. Project Report. Scottish Adult Learning Partnership, Edinburgh. (Unpublished)

Conference or Workshop Item

Bilsland, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596 and Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2020) Keeping P(l)ace with Thoughts: The Value of Walking Interviews in Organizational Research. 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2020), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 7-11 Aug 2020. p. 16569. (Unpublished)

Conference Proceedings

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Martin, G., Bozic, B. and Docherty, I. (2018) Revisiting industrial sociology to shed new light on organizational trust repair. In: 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, 9-13 Aug 2013, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.14479abstract)

Zyglidopoulos, S., Bilsland, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-0596, Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Jorgensen, J. (2017) A Resource-Dependency Perspective on how Organizations Engage in Trust Repair: The Case of SNC-Lavalin. In: 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, 6-8 Jul 2017,

Okpanum, I., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, G. (2015) Intra-Organizational Trust: Employee Attribution of CEO's Religious Convictions. In: 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2-4 Jul 2015, (Unpublished)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Simpson, G. and Martin, G. (2015) Rhetorical Strategies, Legitimacy and Bankers' Justifications. In: 75th Academy of Management Colloquium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7-11 Aug 2015, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X (2014) Public Sector: Taking the Employee Engagement Agenda Forward. In: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Knowledge into Practice Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) Organizational Recidivism and Trust Repair. In: 30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Martin, Graeme (2014) Organizational Trust Repair Through Inaction: An Alternative Perspective. In: First International Trust Network Conference, Coventry, England, 4-8 Nov 2014, (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John (2014) Institutional Maintenance in an Elite Organization. In: 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1-5 Aug 2014, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2014.15696a) (Unpublished)

Siebert, Sabina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Wilson, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 and Hamilton, John (2014) Institutional Work: An Organizational Geography Perspective. In: 28th Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2014), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec 2014, (Unpublished)

Martin, G., Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Bozic, B. (2013) Re-conceptualising organizational trust repair: the case of repeated transgressions. In: 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, 9-13 Aug 2013, (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2013.10446abstract)

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X, Bozic, B., Martin, G. and Docherty, I. (2013) What do Burrell and Morgan's sociological paradigms and Fox's frames of reference tell us about organizational trust and the trust repair literature? In: 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents: Cultures and Worldviews, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 Jul 2013,

Siebert, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-271X and Anker, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-2941 (2012) Discovering new worlds: the transformative power of narrative theories in management. In: Narrative Magic: Transformations Through Story-Telling, Glasgow, UK, 5 Nov 2012,

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Grants

  • Siebert, S. & Czarniawska, B. (2020-2022) Managing Secret Agents, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (£9,700) SRG1990602
  • Siebert, S. (2019-2021) How does the Scottish Parliament building shape the workings of the institution, ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (£6,500) ES/T501918/1
  • Siebert, S. (2018) The Parliament and Westminster Palace: The role of buildings in the reservation of institutional traditions, symbols and customs, ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (£8,000) ES/M500471
  • Siebert S. (2016) Trust in science: Managing overflow in science, British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (£159,000) MD150056
  • Gordon, L., Bates, J., Jindal-Snape, D.; Rees, C.; Siebert, S.; Sinha, R.; Teunissen, P.W. and Westerman, M. (2016) ‘Exploring the effects of context on senior medical trainee transition experiences: a multi-country project,’ Association for Medical Education in Europe (£10,000)
  • Gordon, L., Rees-Sidhu, C., Morrison, J.‎; Needham, G. and Siebert, S. (2015) ‘Exploring the transition experiences of higher-stage medical trainees’, Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (£69,000)
  • Martin, G. Siebert, S., Howieson, B. and Bushfield, S. (2014) ‘Consultants’ experience of the changing nature of work in the NHS in Scotland’, British Medical Association (£48,000)
  • Siebert, S.  (2008) ‘The use of electronic submission and assessment system within a Virtual Learning Environment’, Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance subject group in HEA (£3,000)
  • Mills, V., Siebert, S. and Tuff, C. (2007) ‘Exploring the use of Bachelors degree in relation to work based learning’ the Quality Assurance Agency Scotland (£8,000)
  • Siebert, S, Mills, V and Tuff, C. (2006) ‘Gender Balance in Community and Local Authority Councils’, conducted for The Scottish Adult Learning Partnership Edinburgh (£28,000)

Supervision

Prof Sabina Siebert is interested in supervising PhD researchers in the area of organisational trust, the workplace learning, change management, trade union studies and management in the creative and cultural industries.

Current PhD Supervision

  • Duke, Richard
    Leaderless leadership:The curious case of Black Lives Matter

Completed PhDs

(2014-2018) "Labour process theory and the social production of retail work spaces"
Co-supervisor Professor Andrew Cumbers

(2012 – 2016) "Consumer trust repair – the case of the food contamination scandal in the UK"
Co-supervisors: Professor Graeme Martin, Professor Iain Docherty

(2012 – 2016) "Hybridity in contemporary commercial organizations: Implications for employee trust"
Co-supervisor: Professor Graeme Martin

(2009 – 2015) "Professional Doctorate: Professional competency frameworks in psychology"

Teaching

Postgraduate

Courses taught in the last 5 years:

  • Managing Complex Change (MA)
  • Management in the Creative Industries (MSc)
  • Managing Creativity and Innovation (MSc)
  • Research Methods (MA and MSc)
  • Organisations and Management (MA)
  • International Human Resource Management (MSc)
  • Policy in the Cultural Sector (BA)

Additional information

  • Academic Fellow of the Scottish Parliament (from 2019-2021)
  • Academic Fellow of the UK Parliament (2018-2019)
  • Honorary Professor University of St Andrews (from 2018)
  • British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2017-2018)
  • Visiting Professor University of Gothenburg, School of Business Economics and Law, Sweden (2016-2019)
  • Visiting Fellow Macquarie University, Australia (2013-2015, and 2018)
  • Member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel (Panel C) (from 2018-2022)
  • Member of the International Panel of the Independent Research Fund Denmark, IRFD, Social Sciences (2018-2020)
  • Member of the Council/Trustee (from 2017) and Deputy Chair (from 2019) of the Society of Advanced Management Studies (SAMS)

Editorial activities

  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Professions and Organization
  • Former Editor-in-Chief of the European Management Journal (2015-17)

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