Biography

I am Professor in Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School. Previously I worked at Lancaster University Management School as a lecturer, and as guest research associate in University of Kyoto in Japan, and University of Turku in Finland. I am an expert in collective memory and traditions in organizations and fields. My research focuses on how social and organizational changes take place in the encounter of tradition vs. modernity. More specifically, I have studied long-living and heritage-based craft firms, family businesses, and displaced people to understand how they culturally survive in the changing institutional environment.

I lead the project "Heritage Craft: Promoting the cultural survival & revival of the British heritage crafts sector". Please see the project website here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/subjects/ohrm/people/academic_staff/innan_sasaki/heritage_craft/

I am a member of the Academy of Management and the European Group of Organization Studies and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. I teach both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at WBS and have received recognitions for outstanding contributions.

Research Interests

My research interests include: Collective memories, Tradition, Temporality, Organizational culture, and Organziational identity