Professor Hari Tsoukas
Professor of Organisation Behaviour
Research Interests
Organisational knowledge, learning, and sensemaking; practical reason and judgment in organizations; organizational change; meta-theoretical issues in organisational and management studies; philosophy and organization studies (especially process, phenomenological and neo-Aristotelian perspectives).
Teaching in 2018-2019
Executive MBA
- IB97R0: Leadership and the Art of Judgement
Executive MBA (London)
- IB97RL: Leadership and the Art of Judgement
Management
- IB98R0: Leading and Managing Change
Organisation & HRM
Email: Hari.Tsoukas@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 74861 / Room: 2.133
Biography
Previous appointments at the Manchester Business School, the University of Essex, the University of Strathclyde, and ALBA Graduate Business School (Greece). He works as the Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. Recipient of The Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award, Organization and Management Theory Division, American Academy of Management (2016), of the Cyprus Research Award-Distinguished Researcher for 2016, and is the 18th Honorary Member, European Group of Organization Studies (2016). He is the Academic Adviser to the Hellenic Association of Chief Executive Officers; former Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (2003-2008); and a co-founder and co-organizer of the acclaimed International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Hari Tsoukas (2018) "Strategy and virtue : developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics", Strategic Organization, 16, 3, 323-351
- Hari Tsoukas (2018) "Leadership, the American Academy of Management, and President Trump’s travel ban : a case study in moral imagination", Journal of Business Ethics
- Hari Tsoukas (2017) "Don't simplify, complexify : from disjunctive to conjunctive theorizing in organization and management studies", Journal of Management Studies, 54, 2, 132-153
- Sandberg, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2015) "Making sense of the sensemaking perspective : its constituents, limitations, and opportunities for further development", Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, S1, S6-S32
- Shotter, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2014) "In search of Phronesis : leadership and the art of judgment", Academy of Management Learning & Education, Volume 13, Number 2, 224-243
- Dionysiou, D. D. and Tsoukas, H. (2013) "Understanding the (re)creation of routines from within : a symbolic interactionist perspective", Academy of Management Review, Volume 38, Number 2, 181-205
- Langley, A., Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H. and Van de Ven, A. H. (2013) "Process studies of change in organization and management : unveiling temporality, activity, and flow", Academy of Management Journal, Volume 56, Number 1, 1-13
- Tsoukas, H. and Dooley, K. J. (2011) "Introduction to the special issue : towards the ecological style : embracing complexity in organizational research", Organization Studies, Vol.32, No.6, 729-735
- Sandberg, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2011) "Grasping the logic of practice : theorizing through practical rationality", Academy of Management Review, Vol.36, No.2, 338-360
- Yanow, D. and Tsoukas, H. (2009) "What is reflection-in-action? A phenomenological account", Journal of Management Studies, Vol.46, No.8, 1339-1364
- Hari Tsoukas (2009) "A dialogical approach to the creation of new knowledge in organizations", Organization Science, Vol.20, No.6, 941-957
- Hari Tsoukas (2005) "Managing third-order change : the case of the public power corporation in Greece", Long Range Planning, Vol.38, No.1, 79-95
- Hari Tsoukas () "The Validity of Idiographic Research Explanation ", The Academy of Management Review, 14, 4, 551-561
- Hari Tsoukas (1996) "Creativity in OR/MS : From technique to epistemology", Interfaces, 26, 2, 73-79
- Hari Tsoukas (1996) "The firm as a distributed knowledge system : A constructionist approach", Strategic Management Journal, 17, S2, 11-25
- Tsoukas, H. and Papoulias, D. B. (1996) "Understanding Social Reforms : A Conceptual Analysis", The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 47, 7, 853-863
- Hari Tsoukas (1994) "Managing reforms on a large scale : what role for OR/MS? ", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45, 9, 977-986
- Hari Tsoukas (1994) "Ethnos or Polis? Some Thoughts on the Balkan Intolerance", Organization, 1, 2, 433-438
- Hari Tsoukas (1993) "The road to emancipation is through organisational development : a critical assessment of Total Systems Intervention ", Systems practice, 6, 1, 53-70
- Hari Tsoukas (1993) "Analogical reasoning and knowledge generation in organisation theory ", Organization Studies, 14, 3, 323-346
- Hari Tsoukas (1993) "By their fruits ye shall know them? A reply to Jackson, Green, and Midgley", Systems practice, 6, 3, 311-317
- Hari Tsoukas (1992) "Panoptic reason and the search for totality : a critical assessment of the critical systems perspective ", Human Relations, 45, 7, 637-657
- Hari Tsoukas (1992) "Postmodernism, reflexive rationalism and organization studies : a reply to Martin Parker ", Organization Studies, 13, 4, 643-649
- Hari Tsoukas (1992) "Ways of seeing : topographic and network representations in organisation theory ", Systems practice, 5, 4, 441-456
- Hari Tsoukas (1992) "The relativity of organizing : its knowledge presuppositions and its pedagogical implications for comparative management", Journal of Management Education, 16, Supplement 4, 147-162
- Hari Tsoukas (1991) "The missing link : a transformational view of metaphors in organizational science ", Academy of Management Review, 16, 3, 566-585
- Hari Tsoukas (1989) "Introducing programmable automation technologies : intended managerial strategies, choices and decisions", Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1, 2, 205-222
- Hari Tsoukas (1988) "Managerial streams of decisions and the organisation of work on the shop floor : an explanatory framework ", Management Research News, 11, 4/5, 55-58
Journal Items
- Hari Tsoukas (2008) "Thank you and goodbye! Reflections of a departing editor-in-chief", Organization Studies, Vol.29, No.8-9, 1085-1107
- Hari Tsoukas (2007) "Introduction to the forum on 'The future of critical management studies: a paleo-Marxist view'", Organization Studies, Vol.28, No.9, 1309-1311
- Hari Tsoukas (2007) "Forum - Introduction", Organization Studies, Volume 28, Number 1
- Hari Tsoukas (1994) "Socio-economic systems and organizational management : an institutional perspective on the socialist firm ", Organization Studies, 15, 1, 21-45
Book Items
- Hari Tsoukas (2018) "Praxis, character, and competence : from a behavioral to a communitarian view of the firm", 39, 181-194, Emerald Publishing Ltd.,
- Sandberg, J., Rouleau, L., Tsoukas, H. and Langley, A. (2017) "Skillful performance : enacting capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise in organizations", Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Sandberg, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2016) "Practice theory : What it is, its philosophical base, and what it offers organization studies", Routledge, New York
- Tsoukas, H. and Chia, R. (2011) "Introduction : why philosophy matters to organization theory", Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK
- Shotter, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2011) "Theory as therapy : Wittgensteinian reminders for reflective theorizing in organization and management theory ", Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK
- Hari Tsoukas (2011) "Foreword : representation, signification, improvisation - a three-dimensional view of organizational knowledge", x-xix, Routledge, New York
- Shotter, J. and Tsoukas, H. (2011) "Complex thought, simple talk : an ecological approach to language-based change in organizations", 333-348, Sage, Los Angeles ; London
- Langley, A. and Tsoukas, H. (2010) "Introducing perspectives on process organization studies", 1-26, Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Hari Tsoukas (2010) "Practice, strategy making and intentionality : a Heideggerian onto-epistemology for strategy as practice", 47-52, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Hari Tsoukas (2010) "Strategic decision making and knowledge : a Heideggerian approach", 379-402, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
- Hari Tsoukas (2009) "Craving for generality and small-N studies : a Wittgensteinian approach towards the epistemology of the particular in organization and management studies", 285-301, Sage, Los Angeles ; London
- Hari Tsoukas (2008) "Creating organizational knowledge dialogically : an outline of a theory", 160-176, Routledge, New York
- Hari Tsoukas (2008) "Developing a global journal : embracing otherness", 167-175, Basingstoke [England] ; New York, Palgrave Macmillan
