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Research Monographs

R. Chia & R Holt, Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action, Cambridge University Press (October 2009)

International Refereed Journals

A. Rasche and R. Chia 'Researching Strategy Practices: A Genealogical Social Theory Perspective', Organization Studies, vol. 30/7, July 2009, pp. 713-734.

R. Chia and R. Holt, 'On Managerial Knowledge', Management Learning, April 2008, Vol. 39/2, pp. 141-158.

R. Chia and R. Holt, 'The nature of knowledge in business school', Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 7/4, Dec 2008.

M. O'Leary and R. Chia "'Epistemes' and Structures of Sense-Making in Organisational Life", Journal of Management Inquiry, December, 2007: 16, pp.392-406.

M. P. E. Cunha and R. Chia 'Using Teams to Avoid Peripheral Blindness', Long Range Planning, Dec 2007, Vol 40, pp. 559-573.

R Harrison, C. Leitch and R. Chia, 'Developing Paradigmatic Awareness in University Business Schools: The Challenge for Executive Education', Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 6/3, pp. 1-12, 2007.

Nayak, A., MacLean, M., Harvey, C. and R. Chia, (2007), Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and Indian business elites', InternationalJournal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Vol. 1, 1/2, 9-27.

R. Chia and R. B. MacKay (2007), 'Post-Processual Challenges for the Emerging Strategy-as-Practice Perspective: Discovering Strategy in the Logic of Practice', Human Relations, Vol. 60 (1), pp. 217-242.

R. Chia and R. Holt, 'Strategy as Practical Coping: A Heideggerian Perspective', Organization Studies 27/5, 2006, 635-655.

R. Chia 'The Aim of Management Education: Reflections on Mintzberg's 'Managers Not MBAs', Organization Studies, Vol. 26/7, 2005, 1090-1092.

R. Chia 'Strategy-as-Practice: Reflections on the Research Agenda', European Management Review, vol. 1, 2004, pp. 1-6.

R. Chia 'From Knowledge-Creation to Perfecting Action: Tao, Basho and Pure Experience as the Ultimate Ground of Performance', Human Relations, August, 2003, Vol. 56/8, pp. 953 - 981.

R. Chia & H. Tsoukas, 'Everything Changes and Nothing Endures…', Process Studies, 32/2, Fall/Winter 2003, pp. 196-224.

H. Tsoukas and R. Chia 'On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change', Organization Science, Sept/October 2002, pp. 567-582.

R. Chia, 'Time, Duration and Simultaneity: Rethinking Process and Change in Organizational Analysis' Organization Studies, (2002) 23/6, pp. 863-868.

Book Chapters

R. Chia and A. Rasche, 'Epistemological Alternatives for Researching Strategy-as-Practice', in D. Seidl et al (eds.) Cambridge Handbook in
Strategy-as-Practice, (forthcoming, 2009)

R. Chia, 'Shifting Paradigms through "Letting Go": On allowing Oneself to Become a Management Education Scholar', in B. De Fillipi and  C. Wankel, (eds), Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar, (forthcoming, 2009)  

R. Chia, 'The Nature of Knowledge and Knowing in the Context of Management Learning, Education and Development', in S. Armstrong and C. Fukami (eds.), Sage Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development, (forthcoming, 2009)

R. Chia and R. Holt, 'Wisdom as Learned Ignorance: Integrating East-West perspectives', in Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom, Eric, H. Kessler and James R. Bailey (eds.), Sage, 2007, pp. 505-526.

R. Chia, 'Enhancing Entrepreneurial Learning through Peripheral Vision', in R. Harrison and C. Leitche (eds.) Entrepreneurial Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Applications. (Routledge, 2008).

R. Chia, 'Ontology', International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies, Eds. S Clegg and J. R. Bailey, London: Sage, (forthcoming, 2008).

R. Chia, 'Feeding Marshmallows to Alligators: The Inherent Fragility of Human Organization', in D. Barry and H. Hansen (eds.) Sage Handbook of The New & Emerging in Organization Studies, London: Sage (2007)

R. Chia, 'A Whiteheadian Approach to Management Education', in F. Riffert, (ed.), Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005, pp. 215-235.

R. Chia, 'Re-educating Attention: What is Foresight and how is it Cultivated?', in H. Tsoukas and J. Shepard (eds.), Managing the Future: Strategic Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, Blackwell, 2004, pp. 21-37.

R. Chia, 'The Shaping of Dominant Modes of Thought: Rediscovering the Foundations of Management Knowledge', in P. Jeffcutt (ed.) The Foundations of Management Knowledge, Routledge, 2004, pp. 169-187.

R. Chia, 'Organization Theory as Postmodern Science', in C. Knudsen & H. Tsoukas (eds) Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.113-140.

R. Chia, 'Ontology: Organization as World-Making', in R. Westwood and S. Clegg (eds.) Debating Organization: Point/Counterpoint in Organization Studies, Oxford: Blackwell (2003), pp. 98 - 113.

R. Chia, 'The Production of Management Knowledge: Philosophical Underpinnings of Research Design', in D. Partington (ed.) Essential Skills for Management Research, London: Sage, 2002, pp. 1-20.

R. Chia, 'Postmodernism and Management', in M Warner (ed) International Encylopedia of Business and Management, London: Thompson Publishing, 2002, pp. 5360-5368.

R. Chia & I. King, 'The Language of Organization Theory', in S. Linstead, & R. Westwood (eds.) The Language of Organization, London: Sage, 2001, pp. 310-328.

Current Book Projects

R. Chia & R. Holt (edit), Handbook on Creativity in Organizations, Edward Elgar (Target Delivery, Dec 2010)

H Tsoukas and R.Chia (eds) Advances in the Sociology of Organizations (Target delivery, Dec. 2010)

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