Phone: +44(0)24 765 72867

Email: Omid.Omidvar-Tehrani@warwick.ac.uk 

Room: 2.119

Profile (biography)

Omid Omidvar is an Associate Professor in Organization Studies. Omid researches how, through mundane practices, organizations engage with creating and managing change, respond to environmental shifts, and organize when there is no clear script. In particular, he researches how organizational routines can work for and against changes in organizations.

Omid's first area of research explores how the relationship between organizations and their environment is constituted through organizational routines. How changes in the environment can be understood through organizational routines and how organizational routines can create inertia and mismatch with the environment? This line of research has been further expanded by exploring the implications of the widespread adoption and use of algorithms in organizations and industries which play a critical role in understanding and responding to the environment.

Relatedly, Omid explore's how through routines and practices, distributed organizing takes place. This research, explores how organizing happens in the absence of a central organization and how actors come together for achieving common goals. Examples include contexts such as citizen responses for Covid and organizing in digital platforms with no clear structure in place.

Research Interests

Practice theory, Organizational routines, Algorithms and organization, Process philosophy, Distributed organizing, Strategy, Organizational learning, and Qualitative methods.

Publications

Journal Articles

Omidvar, O. Safavi, M. and Glaser V. (in-press) Dynamic Inertia: How Organizations Avoid Adapting to Changes in the Environment. Journal of management studies (CABS4, FT50).

Burke, G. Omidvar, O. Spanellis, A. Pyrko, I. (in-press) Making space for garbage cans: How emergent groups organize social media spaces to orchestrate widescale helping in a crisis. Organization studies (CABS 4, FT50).

Nicolini, D. Pyrko, I. Omidvar, O. Spanellis, A. (2022) Communities of Practice: taking stock and moving forward. Academy of management Annals, 16 (2), 680-718. (CABS4*).

Bigdeli, A. Kapoor, K. Schroder, A. Omidvar O. (2021) Servitization: An Organisational Boundary Perspective. Internaitonal Journal of Operation and Production management, 41(5), 547-575. (CABS 4), AOM best papers proceedings.

Omidvar, O., Edler, J., & Malik, K. (2017). Development of absorptive capacity over time and across boundaries: The case of R&D consortia. Long Range Planning, 50(5), 665-683. (CABS 3)

Safavi, M., Omidvar, O. (2016) Resist or comply: The power dynamics of organisational routines during merger, British Journal of Management, 27(3), 550-566. (CABS 4)

Omidvar, O., Kislov, R. (2014) The evolution of the communities of practice approach: Toward knowledgeability in a landscape of practice—an interview with Etienne Wenger-Trayner. Journal of Management Inquiry, 23(3), 266-275. (ABS 3) – Most read papers

Other publications

Banda, G., Tait, J., Mittra, J., Omidvar, O. (2019) Understanding the Emergence and Evolution of New Business Models in the UK Regenerative Medicine Sector. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 33(3), 320-333 (CABS 2)

Mastroeni, M., Omidvar, O., Rosiello, A., Tait, J., & Wield, D. (2017). Science and innovation dynamics and policy in Scotland: The perceived impact of enhanced autonomy. International Journal of Technology Management & Sustainable Development, 16(1), 3-24. (CABS 1)

Omidvar, O., Kislov, R. 2016. R&D consortia as boundary organisations: Misalignment and asymmetry of boundary management. International Journal of Innovation Management. 20(2), 1650030 (CABS 2)

Book chapters

Galalae, C., Emontspool, J. and Omidvar, O. (2019), "Culinary Communication Practices: The Role of Retail Spaces in Producing Field-Specific Cultural Capital", Bajde, D., Kjeldgaard, D. and Belk, R.W. (Ed.) Consumer Culture Theory (Research in Consumer Behavior, Vol. 20), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 169-181

Availability for PhD Supervision and Suggested Topics

Omid welcomes supervising PhD students with strong interests in qualitative methods.