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Dr Gary Burke

Lecturer

Economics and Strategy Group

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Qualifications & education

  • 2011 PhD in Work & Organisational Psychology, Aston Business School (Passed, no corrections)

  • 2007 MBA., Aston Business School (Distinction)

  • 2000 BA (Hons) Business Studies (Upper Second-Class)

Employment

  • 2012  Lecturer in Strategy

  • 2010-2012  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Aston University

  • 2009-2010  Sessional Lecturer, Aston Business School

  • 2004-2005  Executive Development Programme Manager, Aston Business School

  • 2003-2004  Research Assistant, Aston Business School

Teaching activity

  • BSM999 Strategic Management

  • SE1500 Introduction to Business Management

Research interests

I use in-depth qualitative research approaches to study how managers work in complex pluralistic settings that are often characterised by multiple rationalities, logics and identities. My research is problem-centered, focussing on questions such as how do managers adopt to new strategic challenges or balance competing demands? Theoretically, my research draws from theories of identity, culture, social practice and micro institutions. Methodologically, my work tends to be process-oriented and ethnographic in nature, with a growing interest in using video-ethnographic approaches. My current research projects are addressing three key topics; (1) how organizational identities change over time, (2) how managers perform coexistence of contradictory logics, (3) how managers use space and embodied practices during high-stakes strategic episodes.

Recent research funding 

ESRC, 2012. Topic: Charting New Territory: Positioning the UK (Lloyd's) in a changing global reinsurance landscape. Amount: £113, 000. (ES/K000926/1). Co-investigator with Paula Jarzabkowski (Principal Applicant) and Michael Smets (Co-investigator).

Membership of professional bodies

  • Academy of Management

  • European Group for Organizational Studies

Papers

  • Smets, M., Jarzabkowski, P., Burke, G.T. & Spee, P. (2012). Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: Balancing Conflicting-yet-complementary Logics in Practice. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.

  • Subramaniam, N., Collier, P.M. & Phang, M. & Burke, G.T. (2011). The effects of perceived business uncertainty, external consultants and risk management on organisational outcomes. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 7(2): 132-157.

Books

  • Collier, P., Berry, A.J. & Burke, G.T. (2007). Risk and Management Accounting: Best Practice Guidelines for Enterprise-Wide Internal Control Procedures. Elsevier, Oxford.

Articles

  • Collier, P., Berry, A.J. & Burke, G.T. (2006). Risk and management: Best practice guidelines for enterprise-wide internal control procedures. CIMA Research Executive Summaries Series, 2(11).

Papers under review

  • Burke, G.T. (1st revise & resubmit). Organizational identity change in cross-institutional contexts: The development of a hybrid organizational identity.

  • Bednarek, R., Burke, G.T., Jarzabkowski, P. & Smets, M. (Under review). Leveraging client relationships to support knowledge generation: An organizational ambidexterity perspective.

  • Smets, M., Jarzabkowski, P., Burke, G.T. & Spee, P. (Under review). Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: Balancing Conflicting-yet-complementary Logics in Practice.

Other work in progress

  • Burke, G.T., Jarzabkowski, P., Smets, M. & Spee, P. (2012). Trading spaces: The embodiment of risk-trading episodes. EGOS Colloquium July 2012, Helsinki, Finland

  • Smets, M., Burke, G.T., Jarzabkowski, P. & Spee, P. (2011). Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: Insights from a team-based video ethnography of reinsurance trading in Lloyd’s of London. EGOS Colloquium July 2012, Helsinki, Finland