Paul is a leading scholar in strategy and qualitative research. His research reflects his passion to identify the relevance of theory in practice, and how practice can inform theory. He has been part of and leading several research teams, in the context of entrepreneurship, health, reinsurance, telecommunication and the petrochemical industry.
His research is at the forefront of theory development, in particular strategy-as-practice and advances qualitative research methodology. His work appeared in a number of top-tier journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Organisation Studies amongst others.
Paul’s work has made an impact to practice and academe. Based on a global ethnography of reinsurance trading, his book ‘Making a market for acts of God’ has been highly influential leading to contributions in the Financial Times, The Economist, ABC News - The Business and Actuaries Digital amongst others. He has been invited to contribute to webinars and several professional development workshops for instance on process research methods and on career advice for doctoral students and early career researchers. Recently, one of his published manuscripts received the Emerald Citation Award recognising the impact of his work. His work has also received several prestigious distinctions including best paper awards from the leading professional associations in business and management, the Academy of Management and the European Group of Organisation Studies.
His experience and drive to explore the relation of theory and practice is reflected in his approach to teaching. Currently, Paul delivers and oversees the strategy course in the Master of Business. Paul also delivers a popular strategy capstone course into the Medical Leadership Program.
Paul actively supervises Master thesis and doctoral students, whose work has received several awards, including the prestigious Carolyn Dexter award (awarded by the Academy of Management).
Paul has been very engaged shaping the academic profession of strategy scholarship. Currently, serves as Chair of the Strategizing, Activities and Practices (SAP) interest group in the term 2017-2018. SAP is a rapidly growing interest group within the Academy of Management, a global association. To foster debates in the academic community, Paul has organised numerous workshops and convened streams at several national and international conferences.
Paul serves as Senior Editor at Organization Studies, a leading journal included in the Financial Times 45 list. He is also an invited member of the editorial board serving Long Range Planning, a leading strategy journal, and Organizational Research Methods, the leading journal advancing innovation in research methods.
Journal Article: The legitimation of corporate tax minimization
Anesa, Mattia, Gillespie, Nicole, Spee, A. Paul and Sadiq, Kerrie (2019) The legitimation of corporate tax minimization. Accounting, Organizations and Society, . doi:10.1016/j.aos.2018.10.004
Conference Publication: Unpacking the Complexity of Consistency: Insights from a Grounded Theory Study of the Effective Use of Electronic Medical Records
Eden, Rebekah, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Spee, Paul, Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2018). Unpacking the Complexity of Consistency: Insights from a Grounded Theory Study of the Effective Use of Electronic Medical Records. In: Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, United States, (3009-3018). 3-6 January 2018. doi:10.24251/hicss.2018.381
Journal Article: Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change
Spee, Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2017) Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change. Organization Science, 28 1: 152-176. doi:10.1287/orsc.2016.1105
Unlocking Benefits from Digital Investments through Meaningful Use
(2019–2022) ARC Linkage Projects
High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes
(2019–2021) ARC Discovery Projects
The perception and management of uncertainty in megaprojects: the role of domain decisions
(2016–2017) Project Management Institute, Inc
Leadership and strategic decision making in practice: a phenomenographic approach
Doctor Philosophy
Transforming work practices to deliver telehealth services: A study on professional competence, routines and relational expertise
Doctor Philosophy
A conceptual framework for effective technology transfer in the Minerals Industry.
Doctor Philosophy
Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Spee, Paul Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets, Michael and Spee, Paul (2010) Trading risk: The value of relationships, models and face-to-face interaction in the global reinsurance market Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom: Aston Business Schoo
Taking a strong process approach to analyzing qualitative process data
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Le, Jane and Spee, Paul (2017). Taking a strong process approach to analyzing qualitative process data. In Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas (Ed.), The Sage handbook of process organization studies (pp. 237-253) London, United Kingdom: SAGE.
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Spee, Paul (2016). The role of artifacts in establishing connectivity within professional routines: a question of entanglement. In Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Glaus Rerup, Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas (Ed.), Organizational routines: how they are created, maintained and changed (pp. 117-139) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
The role of materiality in the practice of strategy
Le, Jane and Spee, Paul (2015). The role of materiality in the practice of strategy. In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara (Ed.), Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice 2nd ed. (pp. 582-597) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCO9781139681032.034
Institutional ambidexterity: leveraging institutional complexity in practice
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets, Michael, Bednarek, Rebecca, Burke, Gary and Spee, Paul (2013). Institutional ambidexterity: leveraging institutional complexity in practice. In Michael Lounsbury and Eva Boxenbaum (Ed.), Institutional Logics in Action, Part B (pp. 37-61) Bingley, W Yorks, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0039B015
Leveraging relationships to get ready for change
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Smets Michael and Spee, Paul (2012). Leveraging relationships to get ready for change. In Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone (Ed.), Ready for change? : transition through turbulence to reformation and transformation (pp. 165-184) Basomgstple: Palgrave MacMillan. doi:10.1057/9781137008404
The legitimation of corporate tax minimization
Anesa, Mattia, Gillespie, Nicole, Spee, A. Paul and Sadiq, Kerrie (2019) The legitimation of corporate tax minimization. Accounting, Organizations and Society, . doi:10.1016/j.aos.2018.10.004
Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change
Spee, Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2017) Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change. Organization Science, 28 1: 152-176. doi:10.1287/orsc.2016.1105
Spee, Paul, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Smets, Michael (2016) The influence of routine interdependence and skillful accomplishment on the coordination of standardizing and customizing. Organization Science, 27 3: 759-781. doi:10.1287/orsc.2016.1050
Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice
Smets, Michael, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary T. and Spee, Paul (2015) Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice. Academy of Management Journal, 58 3: 932-970. doi:10.5465/amj.2012.0638
Constructing spaces for strategic work: a multimodal perspective
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary and Spee, Paul (2015) Constructing spaces for strategic work: a multimodal perspective. British Journal of Management, 26 Supplement S1: S26-S47. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12082
Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: insights from a team-based video ethnography
Smets, Michael, Burke, Gary, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Paul (2014) Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: insights from a team-based video ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3 1: 10-26. doi:10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056
Material artifacts: practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Spee, Andreas Paul and Smets, Michael (2013) Material artifacts: practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'. European Management Journal, 31 1: 41-54. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2012.09.001
Strategic planning as communicative process
Spee, A. Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2011) Strategic planning as communicative process. Organization Studies, 32 9: 1217-1245. doi:10.1177/0170840611411387
Strategy tools as boundary objects
Spee, Andreas Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2009) Strategy tools as boundary objects. Strategic Organization, 7 2: 223-232. doi:10.1177/1476127009102674
Strategy-as-practice: a review and future directions for the field
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, Andreas Paul (2009) Strategy-as-practice: a review and future directions for the field. International Journal of Management Reviews, 11 1: 69-95. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2008.00250.x
Eden, Rebekah, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Spee, Paul, Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2018). Unpacking the Complexity of Consistency: Insights from a Grounded Theory Study of the Effective Use of Electronic Medical Records. In: Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, United States, (3009-3018). 3-6 January 2018. doi:10.24251/hicss.2018.381
Field-level legitimization of corporate tax minimization
Anesa, Mattia, Gillespie, Nicole, Spee, Paul and Sadiq, Kerrie (2016). Field-level legitimization of corporate tax minimization. In: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 2016. 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, United States, (1463-1468). August, 2016. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2016.195
Is ‘corporate tax maximisation’ an unthinkable?
Anesa, Mattia, Sadiq, Kerrie, Gillespie, Nicole and Spee, Paul (2015). Is ‘corporate tax maximisation’ an unthinkable?. In: 27th Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association Conference, Adelaide, SA Australia, (). 19-21 January 2015.
Is ‘corporate tax maximisation’ an unthinkable?
Anesa, Mattia, Sadiq, Kerrie, Gillespie, Nicole and Spee, Paul (2015). Is ‘corporate tax maximisation’ an unthinkable?. In: 27th Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association Conference - Tax: ‘It’s time’ for change, Adelaide SA, Australia, (). 19-21 January 2015.
The evolution of Bahrain's telecommunications industry
Hine, Damian and Spee, Paul (2017) The evolution of Bahrain's telecommunications industry Brisbane, QLD, Australia: UQ Business School
Unlocking Benefits from Digital Investments through Meaningful Use
(2019–2022) ARC Linkage Projects
High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes
(2019–2021) ARC Discovery Projects
The perception and management of uncertainty in megaprojects: the role of domain decisions
(2016–2017) Project Management Institute, Inc
Determining success: an activity based approach to examine new firm creation
(2016) UQ Early Career Researcher
Leadership and strategic decision making in practice: a phenomenographic approach
Doctor Philosophy — Joint Principal Advisor
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Transforming work practices to deliver telehealth services: A study on professional competence, routines and relational expertise
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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A conceptual framework for effective technology transfer in the Minerals Industry.
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
A practice based approach to entrepreneurial learning
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Strategic Change and Human Capital Issues: A micro-level investigation into board decision making.
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Understanding the legitimacy of Corporate Tax Minimization
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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