Associate Professor Stefan Meisiek
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Associate Professor Stefan Meisiek

Ekon.Dr.; Dipl.-Kfm.; SFHEA
Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Stefan Meisiek

Stefan is an Associate Professor at the Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship discipline.

He received his PhD in Management from the Stockholm School of Economics, and studied at Freie Universtät Berlin, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, and Justus-Liebig Universtät Giessen. Stefan is a visiting associate professor at Copenhagen Business School and Hong Kong University, and has been a visiting scholar at NYU Stern, ESADE, Stanford University, and MIT Sloan.

Stefan is researching leadership and business innovation. He has a particular interest in how leadership enables or constrains innovation efforts. This includes motivating organizational members for inquiry into pernicious problems, challenging basic assumptions, and giving license for dreaming, imagining, and creating.

  • FMBA5010 Leading Business Innovation

  • SMBA6114 Leading Business Innovation

  • CEMS6004 Global Management Practice

Project titleResearch student
Responsible Innovation and the Commercialisation of Quantum TechnologiesGabi SKOFF
Innovation Processes in State-Owned Multinational Enterprises (SOMNEs)Ines WEN

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Meisiek, S. (2023). Team Leadership, Momentum and Improvisation in Extreme Contexts. In Miguel Pina e Cunha (Editor), Dusya Vera (Editor), António Cunha Meneses Abrante (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations, (pp. 271-285). United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S. (2021). Business studios of practice. In T.U. Thomsen, A. Lindgreen, A. Kjaergaard, E. Rosier, A. Tuncdogan (Eds.), Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach, (pp. 226-236). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S., Wad, L., Zubrickaite, E. (2020). Design Thinking in the Business Studio. In G. Melles (Eds.), Design Thinking in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Encounters, (pp. 183-202). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]

Journals

  • Stanway, B., Meisiek, S. (2024). From Paths to Patterning: Improvisations and Routine Dynamics. Research in the Sociology of Organisations, 88, 221-244. [More Information]
  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2024). Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing. Organization Studies, 45(11), 1579-1609. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S., Beausoleil, A., Barry, D., Dattani, A. (2023). Gaining Flexibility in Expertise through Executive Education: Tuning Schemas in Design Thinking. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 22(4), 574-594. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2022). Patterns of Intra-Action: How Material-Discursive Practices Progressively Shape Strategic Change. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2022, Seattle, Washington, USA: Academy of Management. [More Information]
  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2021). Intra-acting strategic change with material-discursive practices. XII International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Rhodes, Greece: Nova School of Business and Economics.
  • Daymond, J., Knight, E., Meisiek, S. (2021). Managing in a material world: How middle managers orchestrate frontline responses to paradoxes. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2021, Virtual: Academy of Management. [More Information]

Research Reports

  • Meisiek, S. (2024). Benchmarking Bottom-up Innovation in the Australian Defence Force: An International Comparative Analysis, Australian Army Occasional Paper No. 26, Canberra, Australia: Australian Army. [More Information]

2024

  • Meisiek, S. (2024). Benchmarking Bottom-up Innovation in the Australian Defence Force: An International Comparative Analysis, Australian Army Occasional Paper No. 26, Canberra, Australia: Australian Army. [More Information]
  • Stanway, B., Meisiek, S. (2024). From Paths to Patterning: Improvisations and Routine Dynamics. Research in the Sociology of Organisations, 88, 221-244. [More Information]
  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2024). Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing. Organization Studies, 45(11), 1579-1609. [More Information]

2023

  • Meisiek, S., Beausoleil, A., Barry, D., Dattani, A. (2023). Gaining Flexibility in Expertise through Executive Education: Tuning Schemas in Design Thinking. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 22(4), 574-594. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S., Stanway, B. (2023). Power, politics and improvisation: Learning during a prolonged crisis. Management Learning, 54(1), 14-34. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S. (2023). Team Leadership, Momentum and Improvisation in Extreme Contexts. In Miguel Pina e Cunha (Editor), Dusya Vera (Editor), António Cunha Meneses Abrante (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations, (pp. 271-285). United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]

2022

  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2022). Patterns of Intra-Action: How Material-Discursive Practices Progressively Shape Strategic Change. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2022, Seattle, Washington, USA: Academy of Management. [More Information]

2021

  • Meisiek, S. (2021). Business studios of practice. In T.U. Thomsen, A. Lindgreen, A. Kjaergaard, E. Rosier, A. Tuncdogan (Eds.), Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach, (pp. 226-236). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
  • Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., Knight, E. (2021). Intra-acting strategic change with material-discursive practices. XII International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Rhodes, Greece: Nova School of Business and Economics.
  • Daymond, J., Knight, E., Meisiek, S. (2021). Managing in a material world: How middle managers orchestrate frontline responses to paradoxes. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2021, Virtual: Academy of Management. [More Information]

2020

  • Meisiek, S., Wad, L., Zubrickaite, E. (2020). Design Thinking in the Business Studio. In G. Melles (Eds.), Design Thinking in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Encounters, (pp. 183-202). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
  • Daymond, J., Knight, E., Meisiek, S. (2020). How material practices allow middle managers to manage paradoxical tensions: video-ethnography of a digital bank. Strategic Management Society Special Conference 2020, Berkley, USA: Strategic Management Society.
  • Daymond, J., Knight, E., Meisiek, S. (2020). Materials in the middle: How middle managers materially manage frontline responses to paradoxes. 36th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Hamburg, Germany: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).

2018

  • Meisiek, S., Barry, D. (2018). Finding the Sweet Spot between Art and Business in Analogically Mediated Inquiry. Journal of Business Research, 85, 476-483. [More Information]

2016

  • Meisiek, S. (2016). A Studio at a Business School? In S. Junginger and J. Faust (Eds.), Designing Business and Management, (pp. 159-166). London: Bloomsbury.
  • Meisiek, S., Guillet de Monthoux, P., Barry, D., Austin, R. (2016). Four voices: Making a difference with art in management education. In Chris Steyaert, Timon Beyes, Martin Parker (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education, (pp. 330-341). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S., Barry, D. (2016). Organizational Studios: Enabling innovation. In Ulla Johansson Skoldberg, Jill Woodilla, Ariane Berthoin Antal (Eds.), Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, Theory and Practice, (pp. 225-237). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

2015

  • Barry, D., Meisiek, S. (2015). Discovering the Business Studio. Journal of Management Education, 39(1), 153-175. [More Information]

2014

  • Meisiek, S., Barry, D. (2014). The science of making management an art. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 30(1), 131-141. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S., Barry, D. (2014). Theorizing the field of arts and management. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 30(1), 83-85. [More Information]

2013

  • Meisiek, S., Redford, D. (2013). Entrepreneurship Education: Science or Craft. In Dana T Redford (Eds.), Handbook de Educacao em Empreendedorismo no Contexto Portugues. Porto: Universidade Católica.

2011

  • Meisiek, S., Haefliger, S. (2011). Inviting the unexpected: Entrepreneurship and the arts. In Ivo Zander, Mikael Scherdin (Eds.), Art Entrepreneurship, (pp. 78-97). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Meisiek, S., Matula, L., Badham, R. (2011). Who controls the looking glass: Organizational theater and liquid power. In Peter Eberl, Daniel Geiger, Jochen Koch (Eds.), Komplexitat und Handlungsspielraum: Unternehmenssteuerung zwischen Ordnung und Chaos, (pp. 211-232). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.

2010

  • Barry, D., Meisiek, S. (2010). Seeing more and seeing differently: Sensemaking, mindfulness, and the workarts. Organization Studies, 31(11), 1505-1530. [More Information]
  • Barry, D., Meisiek, S. (2010). The art of leadership and its fine art shadow. Leadership, 6(3), 331-349. [More Information]

2008

  • Meisiek, S., Hatch, M. (2008). This is Work, This is Play: Artful Interventions and Identity Dynamics. In Daved Barry, Hans Hansen (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization, (pp. 412-422). United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]

2007

  • Meisiek, S. (2007). Dissonances, Awareness, and Aesthetization: Theatre in a Home Care Organization. In P. Guillet de Monthoux, C. Gustafsson, S. Sjöstrand (Eds.), Aesthetic Leadership: Managing Fields of Flow in Art and Business, (pp. 255-285). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Meisiek, S., Barry, D. (2007). Through the Looking Glass of Organizational Theatre: Analogically Mediated Inquiry in Organizations. Organization Studies, 28(12), 1805-1827. [More Information]

2006

  • Steyaert, C., Meisiek, S., Hopfl, H., Hjorth, D., Hansen, H., Bille, D. (2006). In the Wings: On the Possibility of Theatrical Space. Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 5(3/4), 93-98. [More Information]

2005

  • Meisiek, S., Yao, X. (2005). Nonsense Makes Sense: Humor in Social Sharing of Emotion at the Workplace. In C. Hartel, N.M. Ashkanasy, W. Zerbe (Eds.), Emotions in Organizational Behavior, (pp. 143-165). London: Routledge. [More Information]

2004

  • Barsade, S., Meisiek, S. (2004). Leading by Doing. In S. Chowdhury (Eds.), Next Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies from Tomorrow's Thought Leaders, (pp. 107-123). United States: John Wiley & Sons. [More Information]
  • Meisiek, S. (2004). Which Catharsis Do They Mean? Aristotle, Moreno, Boal and Organization Theatre. Organization Studies, 25(5), 797-816. [More Information]

2002

  • Meisiek, S. (2002). Situation Drama in Change Management: Types and Effects of a New Managerial Tool. International Journal of Arts Management, 4(3), 48-55. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2020

  • Benchmarking innovation operations across the ADF: An international comparative analysis of military innovation systems, Meisiek S, Department of Defence (Federal)/Client Commissioned Research

2019

  • Enhancing Innovation at the Royal Australian Navy, Meisiek S, Sydney Business School/EnAct
  • Living Lab for Business Design, Meisiek S, Leung M, Office of Global Engagement/Travel Grants