Dr Innan Sasaki

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 refugees 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 one of the editors of an Organization Studies special issue on "Rediscovering and Theorizing Craft in Organization Studies". I am also one of the editors of Advances in Strategic Management book series special issue on "Tradition as Resource or Constraint for Strategic Action". Moreover, I am the co-editor of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) volume on: "In the Shadows: Tales of Cultural Marginalization in Modern Society".

My work has received best paper awards and is published in leading peer-reviewed journals. 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.

I am looking for PhD students who share similar research interest as me and conduct qualitative studies.