phone: +44 (0)24 7652 4267

email: Innan.sasaki@wbs.ac.uk

Room: 2.144

Profile (biography)

Innan is a Professor in Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School. Previously she 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.

Research Interests

Innan is an expert in collective memory and traditions in organizations and fields. Her research intersects sociology and management studies to unveil how social and organizational changes take place in the encounter of tradition vs. modernity. More specifically, she has studied long-living and heritage-based craft firms, refugees, and indigenous people to understand how they culturally survive in the changing institutional environment.

She is one of the editors of an Organization Studies special issue on "Rediscovering and Theorizing Craft in Organization Studies".

Moreover, she is one of the editors of Advances in Strategic Management book series special issue on "Tradition as Resource or Constraint for Strategic Action".

Innan's work has received best paper awards and is published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She is 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.

Availability for PhD Supervision and Suggested Topics

Innan is looking for PhD students who share similar research interests as her and conducts qualitative studies.

Publications

To view all Innan's extensive list of publications, visit https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/innan-sasaki/ 

Journal articles