Paula Jarzabkowski

15.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
120 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Paula Jarzabkowski is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Paula Jarzabkowski has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 48 papers in Strategy and Management and 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Paula Jarzabkowski's work include Management and Organizational Studies (71 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (39 papers) and Accounting and Organizational Management (15 papers). Paula Jarzabkowski is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (71 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (39 papers) and Accounting and Organizational Management (15 papers). Paula Jarzabkowski collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Paula Jarzabkowski's co-authors include A. Paul Spee, David Seidl, Julia Balogun, Jane Kirsten Lê, Michael Smets, Paul Spee, Sarah Kaplan, Rebecca Bednarek, John A. A. Sillince and Andrew H. Van de Ven and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Paula Jarzabkowski

115 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective 2004 2026 2011 2018 2007 2004 2005 2009 2009 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective
    2007 740 citations Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun et al. Human Relations profile →
  2. Strategy as Practice: Recursiveness, Adaptation, and Practices-in-Use
    2004 567 citations Paula Jarzabkowski Organization Studies profile →
  3. Strategy as Practice: An Activity-Based Approach
    2005 560 citations Paula Jarzabkowski profile →
  4. Strategy‐as‐practice: A review and future directions for the field
    2009 530 citations Paula Jarzabkowski et al. profile →
  5. Institutional Work
    2009 489 citations Charlene Zietsma, Paula Jarzabkowski et al. profile →
  6. Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve
    2013 408 citations Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Kirsten Lê et al. Strategic Organization profile →
  7. Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd’s of London: Balancing Conflicting-yet-Complementary Logics in Practice
    2014 357 citations Michael Smets, Paula Jarzabkowski et al. Academy of Management Journal profile →
  8. Strategy tools‐in‐use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice
    2014 291 citations Paula Jarzabkowski et al. profile →
  9. Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity
    2013 257 citations Michael Smets, Paula Jarzabkowski Human Relations profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paula Jarzabkowski United Kingdom 49 5.1k 4.4k 1.9k 1.5k 1.1k 120 9.4k
William Ocasio United States 28 4.7k 0.9× 5.7k 1.3× 2.4k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 48 12.4k
Marianne W. Lewis United States 29 4.7k 0.9× 5.6k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 46 11.5k
Eero Vaara Finland 51 5.0k 1.0× 4.8k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 954 0.6× 593 0.6× 172 10.0k
Wendy K. Smith United States 28 4.9k 1.0× 5.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 71 11.7k
Martha S. Feldman United States 36 4.3k 0.8× 4.0k 0.9× 3.3k 1.7× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.7× 77 12.6k
D. Harold Doty United States 16 3.8k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 488 0.5× 31 8.0k
Eric Abrahamson United States 31 2.7k 0.5× 3.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 960 0.9× 51 8.2k
Haridimos Tsoukas United Kingdom 44 5.7k 1.1× 4.5k 1.0× 2.9k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 2.1k 1.9× 109 12.5k
Thomas B. Lawrence Canada 45 6.1k 1.2× 4.5k 1.0× 3.9k 2.0× 1.4k 0.9× 842 0.8× 91 13.4k
Frances J. Milliken United States 27 5.6k 1.1× 3.9k 0.9× 3.1k 1.6× 726 0.5× 805 0.7× 40 13.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paula Jarzabkowski

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chalkias, Konstantinos, et al.. (2025). That's Not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance. British Journal of Sociology. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Qian & Paula Jarzabkowski. (2024). Reinstating the radical: Trajectory, debates, and proposals for strategy as practice. Journal of Business Research. 187. 115055–115055. 1 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, et al.. (2024). Valuing What You Risk and Risking What You Value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies. Organization Studies. 46(1). 121–139. 2 indexed citations
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Knight, Eric, Jaco Lok, Paula Jarzabkowski, & Matthias Wenzel. (2024). Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal. 68(2). 326–356. 8 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, et al.. (2023). Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact Through Practice-Based Scholarship. Journal of Management Inquiry. 33(3). 230–243. 4 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Konstantinos Chalkias, Eugenia Cacciatori, & Rebecca Bednarek. (2023). Disaster Insurance Reimagined. 18 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, et al.. (2023). Impact as an Iterative Process: Building Continuity through Teamwork. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations
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Seidl, David, et al.. (2023). Participatory Strategy Making as Dual Sensemaking Process. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, David Seidl, & Julia Balogun. (2022). From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions. Human Relations. 75(8). 1533–1559. 32 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Rebecca Bednarek, & Jane Kirsten Lê. (2018). Studying Paradox as Process and Practice. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Rebecca Bednarek, & Laure Cabantous. (2015). Conducting Global Team-Based Ethnography: Methodological Challenges and Practical Methods. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Rebecca Bednarek, & Paul Spee. (2015). Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 6 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula & David Seidl. (2012). Introduction to Strategy-as-Practice. ˜The œbusiness & management collection.. 2012(8). e1003357–e1003357. 1 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Rebecca Bednarek, Gary Burke, Laure Cabantous, & Michael Smets. (2012). Beyond Borders: Charting the Changing Global Reinsurance Landscape. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine. 23(2). 245–58. 2 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, Susan Albers Mohrman, & Andreas Georg Scherer. (2010). Organization Studies as Applied Science: The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies. 31(9-10). 1189–1207. 83 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, et al.. (2008). A process model of coping with dialectical tensions in organizations. 3 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula & Richard Whittington. (2008). Hard to disagree, mostly. Strategic Organization. 6(1). 101–106. 46 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula & David Seidl. (2008). The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy. Organization Studies. 29(11). 1391–1426. 215 indexed citations
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Wilson, David C. & Paula Jarzabkowski. (2004). PENSANDO E AGINDO ESTRATEGICAMENTE: NOVOS DESAFIOS PARA A ANÁLISE ESTRATÉGICA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula & David C. Wilson. (2004). Pensando e agindo estrategicamente: novos desafios para a análise estratégical. Revista de Administração de Empresas. 44(4). 11–20. 22 indexed citations

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