Professor Sarah Robinson

  • Visiting Professor (Adam Smith Business School)

Biography

Sarah started working at the Adam Smith Business School in January 2016. Previously, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, the Open University, Lancaster University and in international development in China and Ukraine.

Her interests relate to learning in its many forms, both personal and organisational. She is particularly interested in developing visual, digital and hermeneutic research methodologies for organisational research and in applications of Pierre Bourdieu’s work to organisation studies. 

Projects

Current projects include:

  • a study of the learning and development of early career academics in contemporary business schools
  • the origins and development of the English wine industry
  • the genesis of women as political leaders in Scotland.

Journals

Sarah has published in a broad range of journals including:

  • Human Relations
  • Organization Studies
  • British Journal of Management
  • Organisation
  • Business History
  • Management Learning
  • Leadership and International Small Business Journal.

Research interests

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

  • Bourdieusian approaches to organisation studies
  • Leadership
  • Organisational, management and leadership learning
  • Early Career professional’s learning and development
  • HEI management, leadership and knowledge transfer
  • Organisational architecture and symbolism and visual methodologies.

 

Learning from events: asking big questions of organisations and society 

Publications

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Number of items: 61.

2023

Sama, Linda M., Egan, Mark, Friedman, Victor J., Jones, David R., Rhew, Nicholas D. and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2023) Meandering academics. In: Robinson, Sarah, Bristow, Alexandra and Ratle, Olivier (eds.) Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life. Routledge, pp. 13-22. ISBN 9781032212609

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Bristow, Alexandra and Ratle, Olivier (Eds.) (2023) Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life. Routledge. ISBN 9781032212609

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Strobl, Andreas, Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Windsor, Duane, Conz, Eliza and Jones, Simon (2023) Demystifying Journal Publishing. European Management Journal (EMJ) Webinar, Glasgow, UK, 1st June 2023.

2022

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Contu, Alessia, Elliot, Carole and Gagnon, Suzanne (2022) In praise of holistic scholarship: a collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith. Management Learning, 53(2), pp. 363-385. (doi: 10.1177/13505076211032207)

Bhukya, Ramulu, Paul, Justin, Kastanakis, Minas and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2022) Forty years of European Management Journal: a bibliometric overview. European Management Journal, 40(1), pp. 10-28. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.04.001)

2021

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (Eds.) (2021) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge. ISBN 9780367893354

Larsen, Kristian, Ernst, Jette, Thomassen, Ole Jacob and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) In the midst of a storm: forging future paths for Bourdieu inspired organizational and management studies. In: Robinson, Sarah, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 238-249. ISBN 9780367893354 (doi: 10.4324/9781003022510-16)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ernst, Jette, Thomassen, Ole Jacob and Larsen, Kristian (2021) Introduction: taking Bourdieu further into studies of Organizations and Management. In: Robinson, Sarah, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780367893354 (doi: 10.4324/9781003022510-1)

Wall, Tony, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Callahan, Jamie, Elliott, Carole, Padan, Tali, Kjærgaard, Annemette, Blasco, Maribel and Bergmann, Rasmus (2021) Micro-activism and wellbeing: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche. In: Wall, Tony, Cooper, Cary L. and Brough, Paula (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing. SAGE, pp. 542-557. ISBN 9781529704860

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) Letter from the incoming Editor-in-Chief. European Management Journal, 39(2), pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.02.007)

Sliwa, Martyna, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) The implications of the political situation in the UK for firms: a Bourdieusian perspective. British Journal of Management, 32(2), pp. 363-368. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12399)

Rhew, Nicholas D., Jones, David R., Sama, Linda M., Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Friedman, Victor J. and Egan, Mark (2021) Shedding light on restorative spaces and faculty well-being. Journal of Management Education, 45(1), pp. 43-64. (doi: 10.1177/1052562920953456)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) Remember Mackintosh!’: historical homology and historical affinity in the design of the Scottish parliament building. In: Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby, R. and Harvey, C. (eds.) Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Racz, Marton, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Parker, Martin (2021) On the emotions and politics of autoethnographic supervision. In: Letherby, Gayle and Twinley, Rebecca (eds.) The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

2020

Friedman, Victor J., Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Egan, Mark, Jones, David R., Rhew, Nicholas D. and Sama, Linda M. (2020) Meandering as method for conversational learning and collaborative inquiry. Journal of Management Education, 44(5), pp. 635-650. (doi: 10.1177/1052562920934151)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ratle, Olivier, Bristow, Alexandra and Kerr, Ron (2020) Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools. Management Learning, 51(4), pp. 452-471. (doi: 10.1177/1350507620913050)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, Alexandra (2020) Riding populist storms: Brexit, Trumpism and beyond, special paper series editorial. Organization, 27(3), pp. 359-369. (doi: 10.1177/1350508420910576)

2019

Bristow, Alexandra, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Ratle, Olivier (2019) Academic arrhythmia: disruption, dissonance and conflict in the early-career rhythms of CMS academics. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18(2), pp. 241-260. (doi: 10.5465/amle.2017.0340)

2018

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2018) Women leaders in the political field in Scotland: a socio-historical approach to the emergence of leaders. Leadership, 14(6), pp. 662-686. (doi: 10.1177/1742715017710592)

Bristow, Alexandra and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2018) Brexiting CMS. Organization, 25(5), pp. 636-648. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418786057)

2017

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit and Critical Reflexivity. British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sep 2017.

Bristow, Alexandra, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Ratle, Olivier (2017) Being an early-career CMS academic in the context of insecurity and ‘excellence’: the dialectics of resistance and compliance. Organization Studies, 38(9), pp. 1185-1207. (doi: 10.1177/0170840616685361)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ratle, Olivier and Bristow, Alexandra (2017) Labour pains: starting a career within the neo-liberal university. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(3), pp. 481-508.

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2017) Politics and the ‘Good’ Organisation: The Scottish Parliament Building as Social, Symbolic and Physical Space. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 Jul 2017.

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit-ing CMS. 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) ConferenceS), Liverpool, UK, 3-5 Jul 2017.

2016

Kerr, Ron, Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Elliott, Carole (2016) Developing metaphors in light of the visual and digital turns in organization studies: towards a methodological framework. In: Ortenblad, Anders, Trehan, Kiran and Putnam, Linda L. (eds.) Exploring Morgan's Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 165-183. ISBN 9781506318776

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2016) Architecture, symbolic capital and elite mobilisations: the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s corporate campus. Organization, 23(5), pp. 699-721. (doi: 10.1177/1350508415606988)

Kerr, Ron, Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Elliott, Carole (2016) Modernism, postmodernism and corporate power: historicising the architectural typology of the corporate campus. Management and Organizational History, 11(2), pp. 123-146. (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2016.1141690)

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2016) Gentlemen, players and remoralisation of banking: solution or diversion? In: Dorn, Nicholas (ed.) Controlling Capital: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138943124

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2016) Women Leaders in the Political Field in Scotland: Extending the ‘Historical Turn’ to Leadership Studies. In: 32nd EGOS Colloquium, Naples, Italy, 7-9 July 2016,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Smith, A. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2016) Towards an Understanding of the Role of Identity Work in Readiness for or Resistance to Organisational Change: The Case a Community Health Partnership. In: 32nd EGOS Colloquium, Naples, Italy, 7-9 July 2016,

2015

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2015) Reflexive conversations: constructing hermeneutic designs for qualitative management research. British Journal of Management, 26(4), pp. 777-790. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12118)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2015) Book review: A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management research. Management Learning, 46(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1177/1350507614561113)[Book Review]

Kerr, R., Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Wiek, E. (2015) Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Role of Social Agents in Long Term Institutional Development: a historically situated study of the genesis and growth of the subfield of English Wine. In: 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2-4 Jul 2015,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Bristow, A. and Ratle, O. (2015) Critical Learning: An Exploration of the Roles and Development of Early Career CMS Academics. In: 75th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 7 - 11 Aug 2015,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2015) The Feminization of Political Leadership? Women as Political Leaders in Post-Devolution Scotland: a Socio-Historical Approach. In: 14th International Studying Leadership, Lancaster, UK, 13-15 Dec 2015,

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2015) In search of an international experience: Towards a 'Bildung' understanding of MBA learning. In: Holden, N. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9780415858687

2014

Bristow, A., Ratle, O. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Resistance as Institutional Entrepreneurship in Unsettled Times: The Case of Early-Career Academics in Critical Management Studies. In: EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014,

Elliott, C., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Corporate Historical Web Identity: Researching the Representation of History in the Light of the Visual/Digital Turn. In: EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014,

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Towards an understanding of corporate web identity. In: Bell, E., Warren, S. and Schroeder, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415783675

Kerr, R., Elliot, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Spectacle, Distance and Détournement: The International Union of Food Workers’ Campaign Against Mondelēz International. In: 5th LAEMOS Conference, La Havana, Cuba, 2-5 Apr 2014,

2013

Reid, K., Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Quintas, P. (2013) Perspectives and practice: facilitating the learning of the twenty-first-century manager. In: Van den Bossche, P., Gijselaers, Wim H. and Milter, R.G. (eds.) Facilitating Learning in the 21st Century: Leading Through Technology, Diversity and Authenticity. Springer: London.

Robinson, S., Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2013) Towards an Organizational Historiographical Methodology: A Historical Study of Corporate Power and Architecture – The Case of the ‘Corporate Campus'. In: 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents: Cultures and Worldviews, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 Jul 2013,

Rose, Mary, Decter, Moira, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Jack, Sarah and Lockett, Nigel (2013) Opportunities, contradictions and attitudes: The evolution of university–business engagement since 1960. Business History, 55(2), pp. 259-279. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2012.704512)

2012

Elliott, Carole and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization. Management Learning, 43(2), pp. 157-181. (doi: 10.1177/1350507611428854)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) Designing and Contesting Material and Symbolic Spaces for Corporate Elite Reproduction: The Case of RBS Business School. In: 28th EGOS Colloquium, Helsinki, Finland, 5-7 Jul 2012,

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) From symbolic violence to economic violence: the globalizing of the Scottish banking elite. Organization Studies, 33(2), pp. 247-266. (doi: 10.1177/0170840611430594)

2011

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2011) Leadership as an elite field: Scottish banking leaders and the crisis of 2007-2009. Leadership, 7(2), pp. 151-173. (doi: 10.1177/1742715010394735)

2010

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) Book review: The Sage Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development. Management Learning, 41(1), pp. 115-119. (doi: 10.1177/13505076100410010805)[Book Review]

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) International Imaginaries - A Study of Four MBA Programmes. In: OLKC 5, Boston, MA, USA, 3-6 Jun 2010,

Johnston, Lorraine, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Lockett, Nigel (2010) Recognising “open innovation” in HEI‐industry interaction for knowledge transfer and exchange. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 16(6), pp. 540-560. (doi: 10.1108/13552551011082498)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) Scottish Banks in Globalising Fields: Tracking the Contribution of the Scottish Bankers to the Banking Crisis Of 2008-2009. In: 26th EGOS Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3 Jul 2010,

2009

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The hysteresis effect as creative adaptation of the habitus: dissent and transition to the 'corporate' in post-Soviet Ukraine. Organization, 16(6), pp. 829-853. (doi: 10.1177/1350508409337581)

Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2009) The symbolic violence of leadership: A critical hermeneutic study of leadership and succession in a British organization in the post-Soviet context. Human Relations, 62(6), pp. 875-903. (doi: 10.1177/0018726709104546)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The Metaphor of the Journey: Beyond the MBA and Back to Bildung. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, 1-4 Jul 2009,

Lockett, Nigel, Cave, Frank, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The influence of co-location in higher education institutions on small firms’ perspectives of knowledge transfer. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 21(3), pp. 265-283. (doi: 10.1080/08985620802279973)

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) Multiple Perspectives: Constructing a Hermeneutic Research Design. In: BAM 2009, Brighton, England, 15-17 Sep 2009,

2008

Lockett, Ngel, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2008) Multiple perspectives on the challenges for knowledge transfer between higher education institutions and industry. International Small Business Journal, 26(6), pp. 661-681. (doi: 10.1177/0266242608096088)

2006

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2006) Reflecting on the "International Group Working Experience": a study of two MBA programmes. International Journal of Management Education, 5(2), pp. 3-14.

2005

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2005) Charisma Revisited: Disciples, Dissenters and the Problem of Succession. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2006,

2004

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2004) Social Capital and the Internationalising MBA: Bonding, Bridging and Belonging. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2005,

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Articles

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Contu, Alessia, Elliot, Carole and Gagnon, Suzanne (2022) In praise of holistic scholarship: a collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith. Management Learning, 53(2), pp. 363-385. (doi: 10.1177/13505076211032207)

Bhukya, Ramulu, Paul, Justin, Kastanakis, Minas and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2022) Forty years of European Management Journal: a bibliometric overview. European Management Journal, 40(1), pp. 10-28. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.04.001)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) Letter from the incoming Editor-in-Chief. European Management Journal, 39(2), pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.02.007)

Sliwa, Martyna, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) The implications of the political situation in the UK for firms: a Bourdieusian perspective. British Journal of Management, 32(2), pp. 363-368. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12399)

Rhew, Nicholas D., Jones, David R., Sama, Linda M., Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Friedman, Victor J. and Egan, Mark (2021) Shedding light on restorative spaces and faculty well-being. Journal of Management Education, 45(1), pp. 43-64. (doi: 10.1177/1052562920953456)

Friedman, Victor J., Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Egan, Mark, Jones, David R., Rhew, Nicholas D. and Sama, Linda M. (2020) Meandering as method for conversational learning and collaborative inquiry. Journal of Management Education, 44(5), pp. 635-650. (doi: 10.1177/1052562920934151)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ratle, Olivier, Bristow, Alexandra and Kerr, Ron (2020) Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools. Management Learning, 51(4), pp. 452-471. (doi: 10.1177/1350507620913050)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, Alexandra (2020) Riding populist storms: Brexit, Trumpism and beyond, special paper series editorial. Organization, 27(3), pp. 359-369. (doi: 10.1177/1350508420910576)

Bristow, Alexandra, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Ratle, Olivier (2019) Academic arrhythmia: disruption, dissonance and conflict in the early-career rhythms of CMS academics. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18(2), pp. 241-260. (doi: 10.5465/amle.2017.0340)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2018) Women leaders in the political field in Scotland: a socio-historical approach to the emergence of leaders. Leadership, 14(6), pp. 662-686. (doi: 10.1177/1742715017710592)

Bristow, Alexandra and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2018) Brexiting CMS. Organization, 25(5), pp. 636-648. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418786057)

Bristow, Alexandra, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Ratle, Olivier (2017) Being an early-career CMS academic in the context of insecurity and ‘excellence’: the dialectics of resistance and compliance. Organization Studies, 38(9), pp. 1185-1207. (doi: 10.1177/0170840616685361)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ratle, Olivier and Bristow, Alexandra (2017) Labour pains: starting a career within the neo-liberal university. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(3), pp. 481-508.

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2016) Architecture, symbolic capital and elite mobilisations: the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s corporate campus. Organization, 23(5), pp. 699-721. (doi: 10.1177/1350508415606988)

Kerr, Ron, Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Elliott, Carole (2016) Modernism, postmodernism and corporate power: historicising the architectural typology of the corporate campus. Management and Organizational History, 11(2), pp. 123-146. (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2016.1141690)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2015) Reflexive conversations: constructing hermeneutic designs for qualitative management research. British Journal of Management, 26(4), pp. 777-790. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12118)

Rose, Mary, Decter, Moira, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Jack, Sarah and Lockett, Nigel (2013) Opportunities, contradictions and attitudes: The evolution of university–business engagement since 1960. Business History, 55(2), pp. 259-279. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2012.704512)

Elliott, Carole and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization. Management Learning, 43(2), pp. 157-181. (doi: 10.1177/1350507611428854)

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) From symbolic violence to economic violence: the globalizing of the Scottish banking elite. Organization Studies, 33(2), pp. 247-266. (doi: 10.1177/0170840611430594)

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2011) Leadership as an elite field: Scottish banking leaders and the crisis of 2007-2009. Leadership, 7(2), pp. 151-173. (doi: 10.1177/1742715010394735)

Johnston, Lorraine, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Lockett, Nigel (2010) Recognising “open innovation” in HEI‐industry interaction for knowledge transfer and exchange. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 16(6), pp. 540-560. (doi: 10.1108/13552551011082498)

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The hysteresis effect as creative adaptation of the habitus: dissent and transition to the 'corporate' in post-Soviet Ukraine. Organization, 16(6), pp. 829-853. (doi: 10.1177/1350508409337581)

Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, Ron (2009) The symbolic violence of leadership: A critical hermeneutic study of leadership and succession in a British organization in the post-Soviet context. Human Relations, 62(6), pp. 875-903. (doi: 10.1177/0018726709104546)

Lockett, Nigel, Cave, Frank, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The influence of co-location in higher education institutions on small firms’ perspectives of knowledge transfer. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 21(3), pp. 265-283. (doi: 10.1080/08985620802279973)

Lockett, Ngel, Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2008) Multiple perspectives on the challenges for knowledge transfer between higher education institutions and industry. International Small Business Journal, 26(6), pp. 661-681. (doi: 10.1177/0266242608096088)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2006) Reflecting on the "International Group Working Experience": a study of two MBA programmes. International Journal of Management Education, 5(2), pp. 3-14.

Book Sections

Sama, Linda M., Egan, Mark, Friedman, Victor J., Jones, David R., Rhew, Nicholas D. and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2023) Meandering academics. In: Robinson, Sarah, Bristow, Alexandra and Ratle, Olivier (eds.) Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life. Routledge, pp. 13-22. ISBN 9781032212609

Larsen, Kristian, Ernst, Jette, Thomassen, Ole Jacob and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) In the midst of a storm: forging future paths for Bourdieu inspired organizational and management studies. In: Robinson, Sarah, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 238-249. ISBN 9780367893354 (doi: 10.4324/9781003022510-16)

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ernst, Jette, Thomassen, Ole Jacob and Larsen, Kristian (2021) Introduction: taking Bourdieu further into studies of Organizations and Management. In: Robinson, Sarah, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780367893354 (doi: 10.4324/9781003022510-1)

Wall, Tony, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Callahan, Jamie, Elliott, Carole, Padan, Tali, Kjærgaard, Annemette, Blasco, Maribel and Bergmann, Rasmus (2021) Micro-activism and wellbeing: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche. In: Wall, Tony, Cooper, Cary L. and Brough, Paula (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing. SAGE, pp. 542-557. ISBN 9781529704860

Kerr, R. and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2021) Remember Mackintosh!’: historical homology and historical affinity in the design of the Scottish parliament building. In: Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby, R. and Harvey, C. (eds.) Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Racz, Marton, Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Parker, Martin (2021) On the emotions and politics of autoethnographic supervision. In: Letherby, Gayle and Twinley, Rebecca (eds.) The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

Kerr, Ron, Robinson, Sarah K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Elliott, Carole (2016) Developing metaphors in light of the visual and digital turns in organization studies: towards a methodological framework. In: Ortenblad, Anders, Trehan, Kiran and Putnam, Linda L. (eds.) Exploring Morgan's Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 165-183. ISBN 9781506318776

Kerr, Ron and Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2016) Gentlemen, players and remoralisation of banking: solution or diversion? In: Dorn, Nicholas (ed.) Controlling Capital: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138943124

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2015) In search of an international experience: Towards a 'Bildung' understanding of MBA learning. In: Holden, N. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9780415858687

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Towards an understanding of corporate web identity. In: Bell, E., Warren, S. and Schroeder, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415783675

Reid, K., Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Quintas, P. (2013) Perspectives and practice: facilitating the learning of the twenty-first-century manager. In: Van den Bossche, P., Gijselaers, Wim H. and Milter, R.G. (eds.) Facilitating Learning in the 21st Century: Leading Through Technology, Diversity and Authenticity. Springer: London.

Book Reviews

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2015) Book review: A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management research. Management Learning, 46(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1177/1350507614561113)[Book Review]

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) Book review: The Sage Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development. Management Learning, 41(1), pp. 115-119. (doi: 10.1177/13505076100410010805)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Bristow, Alexandra and Ratle, Olivier (Eds.) (2023) Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life. Routledge. ISBN 9781032212609

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Ernst, Jette, Larsen, Kristian and Thomassen, Ole Jacob (Eds.) (2021) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Series: Routledge studies in management, organizations and society. Routledge. ISBN 9780367893354

Conference or Workshop Item

Robinson, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Strobl, Andreas, Karlsson-Brown, Paula ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-6078, Windsor, Duane, Conz, Eliza and Jones, Simon (2023) Demystifying Journal Publishing. European Management Journal (EMJ) Webinar, Glasgow, UK, 1st June 2023.

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit and Critical Reflexivity. British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sep 2017.

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2017) Politics and the ‘Good’ Organisation: The Scottish Parliament Building as Social, Symbolic and Physical Space. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 Jul 2017.

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit-ing CMS. 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) ConferenceS), Liverpool, UK, 3-5 Jul 2017.

Conference Proceedings

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2016) Women Leaders in the Political Field in Scotland: Extending the ‘Historical Turn’ to Leadership Studies. In: 32nd EGOS Colloquium, Naples, Italy, 7-9 July 2016,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Smith, A. and Fischbacher-Smith, M. (2016) Towards an Understanding of the Role of Identity Work in Readiness for or Resistance to Organisational Change: The Case a Community Health Partnership. In: 32nd EGOS Colloquium, Naples, Italy, 7-9 July 2016,

Kerr, R., Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Wiek, E. (2015) Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Role of Social Agents in Long Term Institutional Development: a historically situated study of the genesis and growth of the subfield of English Wine. In: 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2-4 Jul 2015,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372, Bristow, A. and Ratle, O. (2015) Critical Learning: An Exploration of the Roles and Development of Early Career CMS Academics. In: 75th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 7 - 11 Aug 2015,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 and Kerr, R. (2015) The Feminization of Political Leadership? Women as Political Leaders in Post-Devolution Scotland: a Socio-Historical Approach. In: 14th International Studying Leadership, Lancaster, UK, 13-15 Dec 2015,

Bristow, A., Ratle, O. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Resistance as Institutional Entrepreneurship in Unsettled Times: The Case of Early-Career Academics in Critical Management Studies. In: EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014,

Elliott, C., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Corporate Historical Web Identity: Researching the Representation of History in the Light of the Visual/Digital Turn. In: EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 Jul 2014,

Kerr, R., Elliot, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2014) Spectacle, Distance and Détournement: The International Union of Food Workers’ Campaign Against Mondelēz International. In: 5th LAEMOS Conference, La Havana, Cuba, 2-5 Apr 2014,

Robinson, S., Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2013) Towards an Organizational Historiographical Methodology: A Historical Study of Corporate Power and Architecture – The Case of the ‘Corporate Campus'. In: 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents: Cultures and Worldviews, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 Jul 2013,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2012) Designing and Contesting Material and Symbolic Spaces for Corporate Elite Reproduction: The Case of RBS Business School. In: 28th EGOS Colloquium, Helsinki, Finland, 5-7 Jul 2012,

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) International Imaginaries - A Study of Four MBA Programmes. In: OLKC 5, Boston, MA, USA, 3-6 Jun 2010,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2010) Scottish Banks in Globalising Fields: Tracking the Contribution of the Scottish Bankers to the Banking Crisis Of 2008-2009. In: 26th EGOS Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3 Jul 2010,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) The Metaphor of the Journey: Beyond the MBA and Back to Bildung. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, 1-4 Jul 2009,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2009) Multiple Perspectives: Constructing a Hermeneutic Research Design. In: BAM 2009, Brighton, England, 15-17 Sep 2009,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2005) Charisma Revisited: Disciples, Dissenters and the Problem of Succession. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2006,

Robinson, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372 (2004) Social Capital and the Internationalising MBA: Bonding, Bridging and Belonging. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2005,

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Grants

2007-2010: Innovation Challenge ‘Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Innovation and Competitive Advantage Past and Present’. (Funded by ESRC: £266,885.75)

2009: ‘Developing Skills for Practice Based Learning’ from Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). (Funded by HEFCE: £15,000.00)

2008: Researching student experiences of bridging the theory and learning gap on the final Open University MBA module (B830 ‘Making a difference’). From Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). (Funded by HEFCE: £12,000.00)

2006: UPBEAT evaluation project (university outreach). (Funded by HEFCE: £18,000.00)

Supervision

Sarah welcomes proposals using qualitative research in the following areas:

  • Management Education
  • Higher Education Management and Leadership
  • Management and Organisation Leaning
  • Leadership
  • International Development Management and Practice
  • Architectural and visual approaches to Organisation Studies
  • Critical management studies.

She is currently supervising the following PhD students:

Sarah has supervised to completion the following projects:

  • The re-negotiation of critical management education
  • The process of discursive institutional work in creating an innovative degree development practice: An institutionalisation approach to innovation
  • The effectiveness of donor-provided technical assistance for individual workplace learning within the Afghan public sector

Teaching

  • Leadership
  • Introduction to Management
  • Introduction to Organisational Behaviour
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Research Philosophy (doctoral)
  • Negotiating
  • Influencing Skills

Additional information

  • HEA fellow
  • Member of the Editorial board for the journal ‘Leadership’
  • Co-chair of BAM CMS track
  • Edinburgh Napier Business School MSc Management, External Examiner


Professor Sarah Robinson, Reader in Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour (Management)