Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) has won the Academy of Management’s prestigious Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award.
The bi-annual prize is awarded to scholars who have taken leadership of new ways of thinking, often in unconventional ways. Professor Jarzabkowski was recognised alongside Professor Julia Balogun, Professor David Seidl and Professor Richard Whittington, for pioneering work in the field of ‘strategy-as-practice’, which seeks to provide a framework to develop the relationship between theory and practice in research around strategic decision-making.
Professor Jarzabkowski’s research activities include leading practice-based research into key societal and organisational challenges – in particular, how to develop communities to cope with effects of climate change and catastrophes such as flooding and forest fires. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2020.
In 2023 she co-wrote Disaster Insurance Reimagined, a text aiming to shed light on the growing problems many vulnerable people face in accessing the necessary insurance cover in the face of an increasingly unpredictable world. As a result of her work in this area, Professor Jarazbkowski has also worked closely with advisory bodies such as the OECD High-Level Advisory Board for the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risk.
On receiving the award, Professor Jarzabkowski said:
“To win the Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award is a huge honour and lovely personal recognition for our work.
“Strategy-as-Practice has grown into a significant field of research. It has become a key approach for studying the human processes and practices of strategic decision-making.
“The award will provide further impetus for us and the impact of our research on policy and practice.”
Professor Jarzabkowski is the second Bayes academic to receive the prize in recent years, following on from Professor Cliff Oswick, who was recognised in 2016 for “pioneering work on organizational discourse, institutional discourse and discourse analysis”.
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