Sarah Woolley

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Profile (biography)

Sarah joined WBS in November 2019 after completing her PhD in Business and Management at Warwick Business School. Her research focuses on understanding how organizations and teams collectively orchestrate strategy, innovation and change in complex and dynamic environments. Prior to joining academia, Sarah worked as a Board Director in the NHS and more recently, as a Non-Executive Board Director in the housing sector. She has had a varied career working in consultancy, managerial and scientific roles, across healthcare and not for profit sectors.

Sarah completed her undergraduate scientific training at Manchester University (BSc. Cell Biology) and holds a PhD (Immunology & Biochemistry) from Birmingham University

Research interests

Strategy as practice and process; strategic leadership and management practices; innovation; managerial judgment; top manager and middle manager relations and dynamics; organizational change; process and practice theories of sociology and management; ethnographic and qualitative research methods; organizing healthcare and not for profit services.

Publications

Journal Article

Judgment in Business and Management Research: Shedding New Light on a Familiar Concept. Tsoukas, H., Hadjimichael, D., Nair, A., K., Pyrko, I. and Woolley, S. 2024. Academy of Management Annals, 18 (2): 626-669

Book chapters

Woolley., S and Currie, G. 2023. The practices and processes of strategic leadership. In Eds. Burgess N. and Currie G. Shaping High Quality, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare. Meaningful Innovation and System Transformation. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.

Woolley S. and MacDonald E. 2024. Leading and Influencing. In Eds Birell Ivory S. and MacDonald E. Introduction to Management: Foundations and Futures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reports

NHS England Midlands virtual ward regional evaluation

McGlen, S., Woolley, S., Currie, G. and Lasserson, D. S. 2024

Digital Scholarly Resource

The bottom line: meetings

Brittan, D., Jones, P., and Woolley, S. 2023