Professor Robert Chia
- Research Professor in Management (Management)
email:
Robert.Chia@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Business School, Main Building, Universtiy Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8qq
Biography
Robert Chia is Research Professor of Management at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. He holds a PhD in Organization Studies (Lancaster), an MA with distinction in Organizational Analysis, a Diploma in Training and Development Management, and a Technical Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Singapore Polytechnic. He is an elected Fellow (by invitation) of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, (FRSA) United Kingdom, as well as a former invited member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS), UK.
Prior to entering academia, Robert worked for 16 years in aircraft maintenance engineering, manufacturing management and human resource management for a large multinational corporation based in the Asia Pacific. As an academic, he has held various positions including professorial appointments at the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and Strathclyde prior to taking up his research professorship at the University of Glasgow. Robert has consulted extensively with well-known international organizations and institutions such as the International Federation of Red Cross (Geneva), British Airways, BNFL, British Aerospace, Ciba-Geigy and Cathay Pacific Airlines. He has been invited to give numerous keynote presentations at major academic conferences as well as in practitioner conferences.
Research interests
Robert is a member of the Strategy and Technology Management research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Decision-Making & Unintended Consequences;
- Strategic Capabilities, Action & Practice;
- Organizing/Organizational Functions/Dysfunctions;
- The Aim of University Business Schools;
- East-West Mentalities & Predispositions and their Implications for Business Practices.
Publications
2024
Adekola, J. and Chia, R. (2024) Stakeholder theory, public engagement, and epistemic injustice: the case of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Scotland’s African, Caribbean, and Black communities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 15, pp. 552-564. (doi: 10.1007/s13753-024-00572-8)
2023
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2023) Strategy, intentionality and success: four logics for explaining strategic action. Organization Theory, 4(3), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1177/26317877231186436)
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2023) Are James March’s ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, 122592. (doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122592)
Chia, R. C.H. and Mackay, D. (2023) Strategy-In-Practices: A Process-Philosophical Perspective on Strategy-Making. Series: Elements in business strategy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009096485 (doi: 10.1017/9781009099592)
Yuan, L., Chia, R. and Gosling, J. (2023) Confucian virtue ethics and ethical leadership in modern China. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), pp. 110-133. (doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-05026-5)
2022
Valentinov, V. and Chia, R. (2022) Stakeholder theory: a process-ontological perspective. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 31(3), pp. 762-776. (doi: 10.1111/beer.12441)
Chia, R. and Rasche, A. (2022) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews. In: Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice [Third Edition]. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)
2021
MacKay, B., Chia, R. and Nair, A. K. (2021) Strategy-in-practices: a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes. Human Relations, 74(9), pp. 1337-1369. (doi: 10.1177/0018726720929397)
2020
Nayak, A., Chia, R. and Canales, I. (2020) Noncognitive microfoundations: understanding dynamic capabilities as idiosyncractically refined sensitivities and predispositions. Academy of Management Review, 45(2), pp. 280-303. (doi: 10.5465/amr.2016.0253)
2019
Chia, R. (2019) Becoming a learning organisation: A process-philosophical perspective. In: Ortenblad, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780198832355 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.29)
Bouty, I., Gomez, M.-L. and Chia, R. (2019) Strategy emergence as wayfinding. Management, 22(3), pp. 438-465.
Chia, R. (2019) Before and beyond paradigms in organization studies: back to the ‘rough ground’. Studi di Sociologia, 2019(1), pp. 57-68. (doi: 10.26350/000309_000051)
2018
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2018) How Ambidextrous Are They Actually? An Empirical Test of Exploration and Exploitation as Innovation Capabilities Using Data Envelopment Analysis. 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Porto, Portugal, 10-13 Jun 2018.
2017
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2017) Circumventing the logic and limits of representation: Otherness in east-west approaches to paradox approaches. In: Smith, W. K., Lewis, M. W., Jarzabkowski, P. and Langley, A. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox: Approaches to Plurality, Tensions, and Contradictions. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198754428
Chia, R. (2017) A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as 'wayfinding': process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances. Learning Organization, 24(2), pp. 107-118. (doi: 10.1108/TLO-11-2016-0083)
2016
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2016) The art of relevation/revelation: a Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. and Parker, M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London, pp. 120-132. ISBN 9780415727372
Bosma, B., Chia, R. and Fouweather, I. (2016) Radical learning through semantic transformation capitalizing on novelty. Management Learning, 47(1), pp. 14-27. (doi: 10.1177/1350507615602480)
Chia, R. (2016) Process, practices, and organizational competitiveness: understanding dynamic capabilities through a process philosophical worldview. In: Langley, A. and Tsoukas, H. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies. SAGE Publications: London. ISBN 9781446297018
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: Forum Innovation VII, Paris, France, 9-11 June 2016,
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: R&D Management Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK, 3-7 July 2016,
2014
Chia, R. (2014) Reflections on the distinctiveness of European management scholarship. European Management Journal, 32(5), pp. 683-688. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2014.06.002)
Nonaka, I., Chia, R. , Holt, R. and Peltokorpi, V. (2014) Wisdom, management and organization. Management Learning, 45(4), pp. 365-376. (doi: 10.1177/1350507614542901)
Paton, S., Chia, R. and Burt, G. (2014) Relevance or 'relevate'? How university business schools can add value through reflexively learning from strategic partnerships with business. Management Learning, 45(3), pp. 267-288. (doi: 10.1177/1350507613479541)
Chia, R. (2014) From relevance to relevate: how university-based business school can remain seats of “higher” learning and still contribute effectively to business. Journal of Management Development, 33(5), pp. 443-455. (doi: 10.1108/JMD-02-2014-0013)
Chia, R. (2014) Reflections: In praise of silent transformation: Allowing change through ‘letting happen’. Journal of Change Management, 14(1), pp. 8-27. (doi: 10.1080/14697017.2013.841006)
2013
Chia, R. , Holt, R. and Li, Y. (2013) In praise of strategic indirection: Towards a non-instrumental understanding of phronésis as practical wisdom. In: Thompson, M. and Bevan, D. (eds.) Wise Management in Organizational Complexity. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 53-67. ISBN 9781137002655 (doi: 10.1057/9781137002655_4)
MacKay, B. and Chia, R. (2013) Choice, chance and unintended consequences in strategic change: a process understanding of the rise and fall of Northco Automotive. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), pp. 208-230. (doi: 10.5465/amj.2010.0734)
Chia, R. (2013) Paradigms and perspectives in organizational project management research: implications for knowledge-creation. In: Drouin, N., Müller, R. and Shankar, S. (eds.) Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational. Series: Advances in organisation studies. Copenhagen Business Press: Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 33-55. ISBN 9788763002493
2012
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2012) Reflexive practice and the making of elite business careers. Management Learning, 43(4), pp. 385-404. (doi: 10.1177/1350507612449680)
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2012) Décisions dramatiques ou incisions imperceptibles? Vers une théorie de la prise de décision en devenir. Revue Française de Gestion, 225(June), pp. 147-166.
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2012) Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers. Human Relations, 65(1), pp. 17-40. (doi: 10.1177/0018726711425616)
2011
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (Eds.) (2011) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK. ISBN 9780857245953
Chia, R. (2011) Complex thinking: Towards an oblique strategy for dealing with the complex. In: Allen, P., Maguire, S. and McKelvey, B. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781847875693
Nayak, A. and Chia, R. (2011) Thinking becoming and emergence: Process philosophy and organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 281-309. ISBN 9780857245953
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (2011) Introduction: Why philosophy matters to organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780857245953
Yuan, L. and Chia, R. (2011) The effect of traditional Chinese fuzzy thinking on human resource practices in mainland China. Chinese Management Studies, 5(4), pp. 431-449. (doi: 10.1108/17506141111183479)
2010
Chia, R. (2010) Rediscovering becoming: Insights from an Oriental perspective on process organization studies. In: Hernes, S. and Maitlis, S. (eds.) Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing. Series: Perspectives on process organization studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 112-139. ISBN 9780199594566
Chia, R. (2010) Shifting paradigms through "letting go": On allowing oneself to become a management education scholar. In: Wankel, C. and DeFillippi, B. (eds.) Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar. Series: Research in management education and development. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC, USA, pp. 11-41. ISBN 9781607523475
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2010) Dominant corporate agents and the power elite in France and Britain. Organization Studies, 31(3), pp. 327-348. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609357377)
Rasche, A. and Chia, R. (2010) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy-as-practice: Building and dwelling worldviews. In: Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 34-46. ISBN 9780521517287
2009
Rasche, A. and Chia, R. (2009) Researching strategy practices: A genealogical social theory perspective. Organization Studies, 30(7), pp. 713-734. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609104809)
Chia, R. (2009) The nature of knowledge and knowing in the context of management learning, education and development. In: Armstrong, S. and Fukami, C. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development. SAGE: London, UK, pp. 23-41. ISBN 9781412935395
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2009) Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521189859
Pavlovich, K. and Chia, R. (2009) Perplexity, process and practice. In: Lowe, S. (ed.) Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager. Response Books: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, pp. 113-134. ISBN 9788132102335
2008
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2008) The nature of knowledge in business schools. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7(4), pp. 471-486. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882188)
Chia, R. (2008) Enhancing entrepreneurial learning through peripheral vision. In: Harrison, R. and Leitch, C. (eds.) Entrepreneurial Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Applications. Series: Routledge studies in entrepreneurship. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9780415394161
Chia, R. (2008) Feeding marshmallows to alligators: The inherent fragility of human organization. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. (eds.) Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA. ISBN 9781412912181
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2008) On managerial knowledge. Management Learning, 39(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607087579)
2007
O'Leary, M. and Chia, R. (2007) Epistemes and structures of sensemaking in organizational life. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(4), pp. 392-406. (doi: 10.1177/1056492607310976)
Harrison, R.T., Leitch, C.M. and Chia, R. (2007) Developing paradigmatic awareness in University Business Schools: The challenge for executive education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6(3), pp. 332-343. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2007.26361624)
Chia, R. (2007) Ontology. In: Clegg, S.R. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. SAGE: London, UK. ISBN 9781412915151
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2007) Wisdom as learning ignorance: Integrating East-West persepectives. In: Kessler, E.H. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 505-526. ISBN 9781412915618
Chia, R. and MacKay, B. (2007) Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice. Human Relations, 60(1), pp. 217-242. (doi: 10.1177/0018726707075291)
Nayak, A., Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2007) Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and Indian business elites. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 1(1/2), p. 9. (doi: 10.1504/IJICBM.2007.014468)
Pina e Cunha, M. and Chia, R. (2007) Using teams to avoid peripheral blindness. Long Range Planning, 40(6), pp. 559-573. (doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2007.08.004)
2006
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2006) Strategy as practical coping: A Heideggerian perspective. Organization Studies, 27(5), pp. 635-655. (doi: 10.1177/0170840606064102)
2005
Chia, R. (2005) Book Review: The Aim of Management Education: Reflections on Mintzberg’s Managers not MBAs. Organization Studies, 26(7), pp. 1090-1092. (doi: 10.1177/017084060502600707)[Book Review]
Chia, R. (2005) A Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Riffert, F. G. (ed.) Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, pp. 215-235. ISBN 9781904303572
2004
Chia, R. (2004) Re-educating attention: what is foresight and how is it cultivated? In: Tsoukas, H. and Shepherd, J. (eds.) Managing the Future: Strategic Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 21-37. ISBN 9781405116145
Chia, R. (2004) The shaping of dominant modes of thought: rediscovering the foundations of management knowledge. In: Jeffcutt, P. (ed.) The Foundations of Management Knowledge. Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies (23). Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 169-187. ISBN 9780415207782
Chia, R. (2004) Strategy-as-practice: reflections on the research agenda. European Management Review, 1(1), pp. 29-34. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500012)
2003
Chia, R. (2003) From knowledge-creation to the perfecting of action: Tao, Basho and pure experience as the ultimate ground of knowing. Human Relations, 56(8), pp. 953-981. (doi: 10.1177/00187267030568003)
Chia, R. (2003) Organization theory as postmodern science. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford ; New York, pp. 113-140. ISBN 9780199258321
Chia, R. and Tsoukas, H. (2003) Everything changes and nothing endures... Process Studies, 32(2), pp. 196-224.
Chia, R. (2003) Ontology: organization as World-making. In: Westwood, R. and Clegg, S. (eds.) Debating Organization: Point/Counterpoint in Organization Studies. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, Mass ; Oxford, pp. 98-113. ISBN 9780631216926
2002
Chia, R. (2002) Time, duration and simultaneity: rethinking process and change in organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 23(6), pp. 863-868. (doi: 10.1177/0170840602236007)
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (2002) On organizational becoming: rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13(5), pp. 567-582. (doi: 10.1287/orsc.13.5.567.7810)
Chia, R. (2002) Postmodernism and management. In: Warner, M. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management [2nd Edition]. Thomson Learning: London, pp. 5360-5368. ISBN 9781861521613
Chia, R. (2002) The production of management knowledge: philosophical underpinnings of research design. In: Partington, D. (ed.) Essential Skills for Management Research. SAGE Publications: London, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780761970071
2001
Chia, R. and King, I. (2001) The language of organization theory. In: Westwood, R. and Linstead, S. (eds.) The Language of Organization. SAGE: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 310-328. ISBN 9780761953340
2000
Chia, R. (2000) Discourse analysis as organizational analysis. Organization, 7(3), pp. 513-518. (doi: 10.1177/135050840073009)
1999
Chia, R. (1999) A 'rhizomic' model of organizational change and transformation: perspective from a metaphysics of change. British Journal of Management, 10(3), pp. 209-227. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.00128)
1998
Chia, R. and King, I. W. (1998) The organizational structuring of novelty. Organization, 5(4), pp. 461-478. (doi: 10.1177/135050849854002)
Chia, R. (1998) From complexity science to complex thinking: organization as simple location. Organization, 5(3), pp. 341-369. (doi: 10.1177/135050849853003)
Chia, R. (Ed.) (1998) In the Realm of Organization: Essays for Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415126991
Chia, R. (Ed.) (1998) Organized Worlds: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415127561
Chia, R. (1998) Exploring the expanded Realm of Technology, Organization and Modernity. In: Chia, R. (ed.) Organized Words: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780415127561
1997
Chia, R. (1997) Thirty years on: from organizational structures to the organization of thought. Organization Studies, 18(4), pp. 685-707. (doi: 10.1177/017084069701800406)
Chia, R. (1997) Process philosophy and management learning: the role of foresight in management education. In: Burgoyne, J. and Reynolds, M. (eds.) Management Learning: Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice. SAGE: London, pp. 71-88. ISBN 9780803976436
1996
Chia, R. (1996) Teaching paradigm shifting in management education: university business schools and the entrepreneurial imagination. Journal of Management Studies, 33(4), pp. 409-428. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1996.tb00162.x)
Chia, R. and Morgan, S. (1996) Educating the philosopher-manager: de-signing the times. Management Learning, 27(1), pp. 37-64. (doi: 10.1177/1350507696271004)
Chia, R. (1996) The problem of reflexivity in organizational research: towards a postmodern science of organization. Organization, 3(1), pp. 31-59. (doi: 10.1177/135050849631003)
Chia, R. (1996) Metaphors and metaphorization in organizational analysis: thinking the unthinkable. In: Grant, D. and Oswick, C. (eds.) Metaphor and Organizations. SAGE Publications: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 127-145. ISBN 9780803976290
Chia, R. (1996) Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice. Series: De Gruyter studies in organization (77). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin ; New York. ISBN 9783110145595
1995
Chia, R. (1995) From modern to postmodern organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 16(4), pp. 579-604. (doi: 10.1177/017084069501600406)
1994
Chia, R. (1994) The concept of decision: a deconstructive analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 31(6), pp. 781-806. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1994.tb00639.x)
1991
Chia, R. (1991) The management development process: puzzle solving or paradigm shifting? Management Research News, 14(7/8/9), pp. 57-60. (doi: 10.1108/eb028156)
Articles
Adekola, J. and Chia, R. (2024) Stakeholder theory, public engagement, and epistemic injustice: the case of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Scotland’s African, Caribbean, and Black communities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 15, pp. 552-564. (doi: 10.1007/s13753-024-00572-8)
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2023) Strategy, intentionality and success: four logics for explaining strategic action. Organization Theory, 4(3), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1177/26317877231186436)
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2023) Are James March’s ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ separable? Revisiting the dichotomy in the context of innovation management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, 122592. (doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122592)
Yuan, L., Chia, R. and Gosling, J. (2023) Confucian virtue ethics and ethical leadership in modern China. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), pp. 110-133. (doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-05026-5)
Valentinov, V. and Chia, R. (2022) Stakeholder theory: a process-ontological perspective. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 31(3), pp. 762-776. (doi: 10.1111/beer.12441)
MacKay, B., Chia, R. and Nair, A. K. (2021) Strategy-in-practices: a process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes. Human Relations, 74(9), pp. 1337-1369. (doi: 10.1177/0018726720929397)
Nayak, A., Chia, R. and Canales, I. (2020) Noncognitive microfoundations: understanding dynamic capabilities as idiosyncractically refined sensitivities and predispositions. Academy of Management Review, 45(2), pp. 280-303. (doi: 10.5465/amr.2016.0253)
Bouty, I., Gomez, M.-L. and Chia, R. (2019) Strategy emergence as wayfinding. Management, 22(3), pp. 438-465.
Chia, R. (2019) Before and beyond paradigms in organization studies: back to the ‘rough ground’. Studi di Sociologia, 2019(1), pp. 57-68. (doi: 10.26350/000309_000051)
Chia, R. (2017) A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as 'wayfinding': process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances. Learning Organization, 24(2), pp. 107-118. (doi: 10.1108/TLO-11-2016-0083)
Bosma, B., Chia, R. and Fouweather, I. (2016) Radical learning through semantic transformation capitalizing on novelty. Management Learning, 47(1), pp. 14-27. (doi: 10.1177/1350507615602480)
Chia, R. (2014) Reflections on the distinctiveness of European management scholarship. European Management Journal, 32(5), pp. 683-688. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2014.06.002)
Nonaka, I., Chia, R. , Holt, R. and Peltokorpi, V. (2014) Wisdom, management and organization. Management Learning, 45(4), pp. 365-376. (doi: 10.1177/1350507614542901)
Paton, S., Chia, R. and Burt, G. (2014) Relevance or 'relevate'? How university business schools can add value through reflexively learning from strategic partnerships with business. Management Learning, 45(3), pp. 267-288. (doi: 10.1177/1350507613479541)
Chia, R. (2014) From relevance to relevate: how university-based business school can remain seats of “higher” learning and still contribute effectively to business. Journal of Management Development, 33(5), pp. 443-455. (doi: 10.1108/JMD-02-2014-0013)
Chia, R. (2014) Reflections: In praise of silent transformation: Allowing change through ‘letting happen’. Journal of Change Management, 14(1), pp. 8-27. (doi: 10.1080/14697017.2013.841006)
MacKay, B. and Chia, R. (2013) Choice, chance and unintended consequences in strategic change: a process understanding of the rise and fall of Northco Automotive. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), pp. 208-230. (doi: 10.5465/amj.2010.0734)
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2012) Reflexive practice and the making of elite business careers. Management Learning, 43(4), pp. 385-404. (doi: 10.1177/1350507612449680)
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2012) Décisions dramatiques ou incisions imperceptibles? Vers une théorie de la prise de décision en devenir. Revue Française de Gestion, 225(June), pp. 147-166.
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2012) Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers. Human Relations, 65(1), pp. 17-40. (doi: 10.1177/0018726711425616)
Yuan, L. and Chia, R. (2011) The effect of traditional Chinese fuzzy thinking on human resource practices in mainland China. Chinese Management Studies, 5(4), pp. 431-449. (doi: 10.1108/17506141111183479)
Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2010) Dominant corporate agents and the power elite in France and Britain. Organization Studies, 31(3), pp. 327-348. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609357377)
Rasche, A. and Chia, R. (2009) Researching strategy practices: A genealogical social theory perspective. Organization Studies, 30(7), pp. 713-734. (doi: 10.1177/0170840609104809)
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2008) The nature of knowledge in business schools. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7(4), pp. 471-486. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882188)
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2008) On managerial knowledge. Management Learning, 39(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.1177/1350507607087579)
O'Leary, M. and Chia, R. (2007) Epistemes and structures of sensemaking in organizational life. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(4), pp. 392-406. (doi: 10.1177/1056492607310976)
Harrison, R.T., Leitch, C.M. and Chia, R. (2007) Developing paradigmatic awareness in University Business Schools: The challenge for executive education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6(3), pp. 332-343. (doi: 10.5465/AMLE.2007.26361624)
Chia, R. and MacKay, B. (2007) Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice. Human Relations, 60(1), pp. 217-242. (doi: 10.1177/0018726707075291)
Nayak, A., Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Chia, R. (2007) Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and Indian business elites. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 1(1/2), p. 9. (doi: 10.1504/IJICBM.2007.014468)
Pina e Cunha, M. and Chia, R. (2007) Using teams to avoid peripheral blindness. Long Range Planning, 40(6), pp. 559-573. (doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2007.08.004)
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2006) Strategy as practical coping: A Heideggerian perspective. Organization Studies, 27(5), pp. 635-655. (doi: 10.1177/0170840606064102)
Chia, R. (2004) Strategy-as-practice: reflections on the research agenda. European Management Review, 1(1), pp. 29-34. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500012)
Chia, R. (2003) From knowledge-creation to the perfecting of action: Tao, Basho and pure experience as the ultimate ground of knowing. Human Relations, 56(8), pp. 953-981. (doi: 10.1177/00187267030568003)
Chia, R. and Tsoukas, H. (2003) Everything changes and nothing endures... Process Studies, 32(2), pp. 196-224.
Chia, R. (2002) Time, duration and simultaneity: rethinking process and change in organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 23(6), pp. 863-868. (doi: 10.1177/0170840602236007)
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (2002) On organizational becoming: rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13(5), pp. 567-582. (doi: 10.1287/orsc.13.5.567.7810)
Chia, R. (2000) Discourse analysis as organizational analysis. Organization, 7(3), pp. 513-518. (doi: 10.1177/135050840073009)
Chia, R. (1999) A 'rhizomic' model of organizational change and transformation: perspective from a metaphysics of change. British Journal of Management, 10(3), pp. 209-227. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.00128)
Chia, R. and King, I. W. (1998) The organizational structuring of novelty. Organization, 5(4), pp. 461-478. (doi: 10.1177/135050849854002)
Chia, R. (1998) From complexity science to complex thinking: organization as simple location. Organization, 5(3), pp. 341-369. (doi: 10.1177/135050849853003)
Chia, R. (1997) Thirty years on: from organizational structures to the organization of thought. Organization Studies, 18(4), pp. 685-707. (doi: 10.1177/017084069701800406)
Chia, R. (1996) Teaching paradigm shifting in management education: university business schools and the entrepreneurial imagination. Journal of Management Studies, 33(4), pp. 409-428. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1996.tb00162.x)
Chia, R. and Morgan, S. (1996) Educating the philosopher-manager: de-signing the times. Management Learning, 27(1), pp. 37-64. (doi: 10.1177/1350507696271004)
Chia, R. (1996) The problem of reflexivity in organizational research: towards a postmodern science of organization. Organization, 3(1), pp. 31-59. (doi: 10.1177/135050849631003)
Chia, R. (1995) From modern to postmodern organizational analysis. Organization Studies, 16(4), pp. 579-604. (doi: 10.1177/017084069501600406)
Chia, R. (1994) The concept of decision: a deconstructive analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 31(6), pp. 781-806. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1994.tb00639.x)
Chia, R. (1991) The management development process: puzzle solving or paradigm shifting? Management Research News, 14(7/8/9), pp. 57-60. (doi: 10.1108/eb028156)
Books
Chia, R. C.H. and Mackay, D. (2023) Strategy-In-Practices: A Process-Philosophical Perspective on Strategy-Making. Series: Elements in business strategy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781009096485 (doi: 10.1017/9781009099592)
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2009) Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521189859
Chia, R. (1996) Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice. Series: De Gruyter studies in organization (77). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin ; New York. ISBN 9783110145595
Book Sections
Chia, R. and Rasche, A. (2022) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy as practice: building and dwelling worldviews. In: Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice [Third Edition]. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)
Chia, R. (2019) Becoming a learning organisation: A process-philosophical perspective. In: Ortenblad, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780198832355 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.29)
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2017) Circumventing the logic and limits of representation: Otherness in east-west approaches to paradox approaches. In: Smith, W. K., Lewis, M. W., Jarzabkowski, P. and Langley, A. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox: Approaches to Plurality, Tensions, and Contradictions. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198754428
Chia, R. and Nayak, A. (2016) The art of relevation/revelation: a Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. and Parker, M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London, pp. 120-132. ISBN 9780415727372
Chia, R. (2016) Process, practices, and organizational competitiveness: understanding dynamic capabilities through a process philosophical worldview. In: Langley, A. and Tsoukas, H. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies. SAGE Publications: London. ISBN 9781446297018
Chia, R. , Holt, R. and Li, Y. (2013) In praise of strategic indirection: Towards a non-instrumental understanding of phronésis as practical wisdom. In: Thompson, M. and Bevan, D. (eds.) Wise Management in Organizational Complexity. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 53-67. ISBN 9781137002655 (doi: 10.1057/9781137002655_4)
Chia, R. (2013) Paradigms and perspectives in organizational project management research: implications for knowledge-creation. In: Drouin, N., Müller, R. and Shankar, S. (eds.) Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational. Series: Advances in organisation studies. Copenhagen Business Press: Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 33-55. ISBN 9788763002493
Chia, R. (2011) Complex thinking: Towards an oblique strategy for dealing with the complex. In: Allen, P., Maguire, S. and McKelvey, B. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 182-198. ISBN 9781847875693
Nayak, A. and Chia, R. (2011) Thinking becoming and emergence: Process philosophy and organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 281-309. ISBN 9780857245953
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (2011) Introduction: Why philosophy matters to organization theory. In: Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (eds.) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations (32). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780857245953
Chia, R. (2010) Rediscovering becoming: Insights from an Oriental perspective on process organization studies. In: Hernes, S. and Maitlis, S. (eds.) Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing. Series: Perspectives on process organization studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 112-139. ISBN 9780199594566
Chia, R. (2010) Shifting paradigms through "letting go": On allowing oneself to become a management education scholar. In: Wankel, C. and DeFillippi, B. (eds.) Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar. Series: Research in management education and development. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC, USA, pp. 11-41. ISBN 9781607523475
Rasche, A. and Chia, R. (2010) Epistemological alternatives for researching strategy-as-practice: Building and dwelling worldviews. In: Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D. and Vaara, E. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 34-46. ISBN 9780521517287
Chia, R. (2009) The nature of knowledge and knowing in the context of management learning, education and development. In: Armstrong, S. and Fukami, C. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development. SAGE: London, UK, pp. 23-41. ISBN 9781412935395
Pavlovich, K. and Chia, R. (2009) Perplexity, process and practice. In: Lowe, S. (ed.) Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager. Response Books: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, pp. 113-134. ISBN 9788132102335
Chia, R. (2008) Enhancing entrepreneurial learning through peripheral vision. In: Harrison, R. and Leitch, C. (eds.) Entrepreneurial Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Applications. Series: Routledge studies in entrepreneurship. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9780415394161
Chia, R. (2008) Feeding marshmallows to alligators: The inherent fragility of human organization. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. (eds.) Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA. ISBN 9781412912181
Chia, R. (2007) Ontology. In: Clegg, S.R. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. SAGE: London, UK. ISBN 9781412915151
Chia, R. and Holt, R. (2007) Wisdom as learning ignorance: Integrating East-West persepectives. In: Kessler, E.H. and Bailey, J.R. (eds.) Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. SAGE Publications: Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 505-526. ISBN 9781412915618
Chia, R. (2005) A Whiteheadian approach to management education. In: Riffert, F. G. (ed.) Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, pp. 215-235. ISBN 9781904303572
Chia, R. (2004) Re-educating attention: what is foresight and how is it cultivated? In: Tsoukas, H. and Shepherd, J. (eds.) Managing the Future: Strategic Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 21-37. ISBN 9781405116145
Chia, R. (2004) The shaping of dominant modes of thought: rediscovering the foundations of management knowledge. In: Jeffcutt, P. (ed.) The Foundations of Management Knowledge. Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies (23). Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 169-187. ISBN 9780415207782
Chia, R. (2003) Organization theory as postmodern science. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford ; New York, pp. 113-140. ISBN 9780199258321
Chia, R. (2003) Ontology: organization as World-making. In: Westwood, R. and Clegg, S. (eds.) Debating Organization: Point/Counterpoint in Organization Studies. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, Mass ; Oxford, pp. 98-113. ISBN 9780631216926
Chia, R. (2002) Postmodernism and management. In: Warner, M. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management [2nd Edition]. Thomson Learning: London, pp. 5360-5368. ISBN 9781861521613
Chia, R. (2002) The production of management knowledge: philosophical underpinnings of research design. In: Partington, D. (ed.) Essential Skills for Management Research. SAGE Publications: London, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780761970071
Chia, R. and King, I. (2001) The language of organization theory. In: Westwood, R. and Linstead, S. (eds.) The Language of Organization. SAGE: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 310-328. ISBN 9780761953340
Chia, R. (1998) Exploring the expanded Realm of Technology, Organization and Modernity. In: Chia, R. (ed.) Organized Words: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780415127561
Chia, R. (1997) Process philosophy and management learning: the role of foresight in management education. In: Burgoyne, J. and Reynolds, M. (eds.) Management Learning: Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice. SAGE: London, pp. 71-88. ISBN 9780803976436
Chia, R. (1996) Metaphors and metaphorization in organizational analysis: thinking the unthinkable. In: Grant, D. and Oswick, C. (eds.) Metaphor and Organizations. SAGE Publications: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 127-145. ISBN 9780803976290
Book Reviews
Chia, R. (2005) Book Review: The Aim of Management Education: Reflections on Mintzberg’s Managers not MBAs. Organization Studies, 26(7), pp. 1090-1092. (doi: 10.1177/017084060502600707)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (Eds.) (2011) Philosophy and Organization Theory. Series: Research in the sociology of organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.: Bingley, UK. ISBN 9780857245953
Chia, R. (Ed.) (1998) In the Realm of Organization: Essays for Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415126991
Chia, R. (Ed.) (1998) Organized Worlds: Explorations in Technology and Organization with Robert Cooper. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415127561
Conference or Workshop Item
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2018) How Ambidextrous Are They Actually? An Empirical Test of Exploration and Exploitation as Innovation Capabilities Using Data Envelopment Analysis. 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Porto, Portugal, 10-13 Jun 2018.
Conference Proceedings
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: Forum Innovation VII, Paris, France, 9-11 June 2016,
Zhou, Q., Dekkers, R. and Chia, R. (2016) Exploration and Exploitation: Separable? A Critical Study of This Assumption in The Context of Innovation Management. In: R&D Management Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK, 3-7 July 2016,
Supervision
- Tolegenov, Bakyt
Challenges and opportunities brought about by the revivification of the ancient Silk Road under the “One Belt One Road” Initiative for Kazakhstan, its positive and negative implications
Teaching
- Executive Education: Strategic Thinking/Practice
- MBA: Scenarios Thinking
Additional information
Recent keynotes
- EGOS 2015 Symposium, Athens
- Strategy Process Sub-Plenary EGOS 2014 Symposium, Rotterdam
- Strategy AS Practice Sub-Plenary EGOS 2016, Naples
- Strategy Conference: ‘Practices, Processes, Governance’, Edinburgh Business School, April 2015
- East-West Conference: Rebuilding Management Theory with Inspiration from China, Stockholm Business School, Aug 2014.
Publications
Robert has published extensively in top international management and organization journals including:
- Organization Science
- Organization Studies
- Organization
- Human Relations
- Long Range Planning
- British Journal of Management
- Academy of Management Journal
- Journal of Management Studies
- Management Learning
- Academy of Management Learning and Education
- Journal of Management Inquiry and Revue Française de Gestion.
He is the author/editor of five books as well as book chapters in a variety of management sub-fields. His latest books include Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action (with Robin Holt), published by Cambridge University Press, 2009 and Philosophy and Organization Theory: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald Group Publishing. He has been a senior editor with the international journal Organization Studies and is on the international advisory board of several established management journals including Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, European Management Journal, Journal of Change Management and the Journal of Chinese Management.
External PhD examiner
- Cambridge University
- Warwick University
- Cranfield University
- Exeter University
- University of Lund (Sweden)
- University of Limburg (Belgium)
- Norwegian BI Business School (Oslo)
- University of Bristol
- University of Lancaster
- University of East Anglia
External assessor - professorial appointments
- University of Nottingham,
- Strathclyde University
- Queens University Belfast