Professor Sarah Robinson

Professor (Management)

telephone: 01413305129
email: Sarah.Robinson.2@glasgow.ac.uk

Main Building, University Avenue, G12 8QQ

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-6372

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: 58.

2022

Robinson, S. , Contu, A., Elliot, C. and Gagnon, S. (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, R., Paul, J., Kastanakis, M. and Robinson, S. (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, S. , Ernst, J., Larsen, K. and Thomassen, O. J. (Eds.) (2022) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge. ISBN 9780367893354 (In Press)

Larsen, K., Ernst, J., Thomassen, O. J. and Robinson, S. (2022) In the midst of a storm: forging future paths for Bourdieu inspired Organizational and Management Studies. In: Robinson, S., Ernst, J., Larsen, K. and Thomassen, O. J. (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge. ISBN 9780367893354 (In Press)

Robinson, S. , Ernst, J., Thomassen, O. J. and Larsen, K. (2022) Introduction: Taking Bourdieu further into studies of Organizations and Management. In: Robinson, S., Ernst, J., Larsen, K. and Thomassen, O. J. (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge. ISBN 9780367893354 (In Press)

2021

Wall, T., Robinson, S. , Callahan, J., Elliott, C., Padan, T., Kjærgaard, A., Blasco, M. and Bergmann, R. (2021) Micro-activism and wellbeing: 1,000s of snowflakes and the potential avalanche. In: Wall, T., Cooper, C. L. and Brough, P. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing. SAGE. ISBN 9781529704860

Robinson, S. (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, M., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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, N. D., Jones, D. R., Sama, L. M., Robinson, S. , Friedman, V. J. and Egan, M. (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, S. (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, M., Robinson, S. and Parker, M. (2021) On the emotions and politics of autoethnographic supervision. In: Letherby, G. and Twinley, R. (eds.) The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

2020

Friedman, V. J., Robinson, S. , Egan, M., Jones, D. R., Rhew, N. D. and Sama, L. 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, S. , Ratle, O., Bristow, A. and Kerr, R. (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, S. and Bristow, A. (2020) Riding populist storms: Brexit, Trumpism and beyond, special paper series editorial. Organization, 27(3), pp. 359-369. (doi: 10.1177/1350508420910576)

2019

Bristow, A., Robinson, S. and Ratle, O. (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, S. and Kerr, R. (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, A. and Robinson, S. (2018) Brexiting CMS. Organization, 25(5), pp. 636-648. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418786057)

2017

Robinson, S. and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit and Critical Reflexivity. British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sep 2017.

Bristow, A., Robinson, S. and Ratle, O. (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, S. , Ratle, O. and Bristow, A. (2017) Labour pains: starting a career within the neo-liberal university. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(3), pp. 481-508.

Robinson, S. 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. and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit-ing CMS. 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) ConferenceS), Liverpool, UK, 3-5 Jul 2017.

2016

Kerr, R., Robinson, S. K. and Elliott, C. (2016) Developing metaphors in light of the visual and digital turns in organization studies: towards a methodological framework. In: Ortenblad, A., Trehan, K. and Putnam, L. 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. (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, R., Robinson, S. K. and Elliott, C. (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, R. and Robinson, S. (2016) Gentlemen, players and remoralisation of banking: solution or diversion? In: Dorn, N. (ed.) Controlling Capital: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138943124

Robinson, S. 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. , 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, S. and Kerr, R. (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, S. (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. 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. , 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. 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, S. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. and Quintas, P. (2013) Perspectives and practice: facilitating the learning of the twenty-first-century manager. In: Van den Bossche, P., Gijselaers, W. 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. (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, M., Decter, M., Robinson, S. , Jack, S. and Lockett, N. (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, C. and Robinson, S. (2012) MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization. Management Learning, 43(2), pp. 157-181. (doi: 10.1177/1350507611428854)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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, R. and Robinson, S. (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, R. and Robinson, S. (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, S. (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. (2010) International Imaginaries - A Study of Four MBA Programmes. In: OLKC 5, Boston, MA, USA, 3-6 Jun 2010,

Johnston, L., Robinson, S. and Lockett, N. (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. (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, R. and Robinson, S. (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, S. K. and Kerr, R. (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. (2009) The Metaphor of the Journey: Beyond the MBA and Back to Bildung. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, 1-4 Jul 2009,

Lockett, N., Cave, F., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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. (2009) Multiple Perspectives: Constructing a Hermeneutic Research Design. In: BAM 2009, Brighton, England, 15-17 Sep 2009,

2008

Lockett, N., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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, S. (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. (2005) Charisma Revisited: Disciples, Dissenters and the Problem of Succession. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2006,

2004

Robinson, S. (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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Number of items: 58.

Articles

Robinson, S. (2021) Letter from the incoming Editor-in-Chief. European Management Journal, 39(2), pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.02.007)

Robinson, S. and Bristow, A. (2020) Riding populist storms: Brexit, Trumpism and beyond, special paper series editorial. Organization, 27(3), pp. 359-369. (doi: 10.1177/1350508420910576)

Bristow, A. and Robinson, S. (2018) Brexiting CMS. Organization, 25(5), pp. 636-648. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418786057)

Robinson, S. , Ratle, O. and Bristow, A. (2017) Labour pains: starting a career within the neo-liberal university. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(3), pp. 481-508.

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. (2012) MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization. Management Learning, 43(2), pp. 157-181. (doi: 10.1177/1350507611428854)

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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)

Robinson, S. (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

Book Reviews

Robinson, S. (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

Conference or Workshop Item

Robinson, S. and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit and Critical Reflexivity. British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sep 2017.

Robinson, S. and Bristow, A. (2017) Brexit-ing CMS. 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) ConferenceS), Liverpool, UK, 3-5 Jul 2017.

Conference Proceedings

Robinson, S. 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,

Elliott, C. and Robinson, S. (2010) International Imaginaries - A Study of Four MBA Programmes. In: OLKC 5, Boston, MA, USA, 3-6 Jun 2010,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (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. (2009) Multiple Perspectives: Constructing a Hermeneutic Research Design. In: BAM 2009, Brighton, England, 15-17 Sep 2009,

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (2005) Charisma Revisited: Disciples, Dissenters and the Problem of Succession. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2006,

Robinson, S. (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:

Shaw, Laura
Gender and political leadership in the Scottish Parliament since devolution.
Wang, Feier
Women's Views on Leadership in Chinese Higher Education Institutions
WU, FAN
The role of entrepreneurial leadership within the internationalisation process of Chinese SMEs: A dynamic perspective
Yañez Ospina, Claudia Mylena
Working well, living well? Views and use of employer-led wellbeing initiatives amongst early career medical and academic professionals

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)

Adam Smith Business School