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Tam­mar Zil­ber

Professor

Subjects
Organisation

Primary research areas

In­sti­tu­tion­al the­ory: Or­gan­iz­ing in con­text
I ex­plore how in­di­vidu­als, groups, and or­gan­iz­a­tions come to­geth­er to cre­ate a shared real­ity that they ex­per­i­ence as giv­en, and how they main­tain or change this so­cial world. I use In­sti­tu­tion­al The­ory to un­der­stand how broad so­cial mean­ings in­flu­ence or­gan­iz­a­tions and are in­flu­enced by them. For ex­ample, how a rape crisis cen­ter op­er­ates in the con­text of fem­in­ist and thera­peut­ic world­views; how Is­raeli hi-tech coped with the 2000s crisis, in the con­text of mod­ern­ism, glob­al­iz­a­tion and na­tion­al­ism; CEO com­pens­a­tion in the USA and how it relates to cap­it­al­ism; aca­dem­ic re­search and how it relates to con­cep­tions of sci­ence; and or­gan­iz­ing for the end of life and how peoples’ death is shaped by cul­tur­al be­liefs about the “good life” and “good death”..
Qual­it­at­ive re­search
My stud­ies are based on qual­it­at­ive meth­od­o­lo­gies such as eth­no­graphy, nar­rat­ive, and dis­course ana­lys­is; and span vari­ous levels of ana­lys­is, in­clud­ing the in­di­vidu­al, or­gan­iz­a­tion, field, and so­ci­ety. I am in­ter­ested in how the­or­iz­a­tion and meth­od­o­logy are in­ter­re­lated.

There is noth­ing more prac­tic­al than a good the­ory

I believe in the role of scientific research to create new knowledge that helps us understand, intervene and change reality. To that end, I strive to disseminate my research through academic publications, as well as to the wider public.  

I published the books Narrative Research: Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation (Sage) and Peace Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship: Life Stories from Israel and Palestine (Edward Elgar), and my work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 
Given the significance of publishing for the accumulation of knowledge, I served as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal and on the EGOS board. As of September 2023, she is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies. 

Outside activities

Co-Ed­it­or-in-Chief, Or­gan­iz­a­tion Stud­ies , 2023 -

I serve as the co-Ed­it­or-in-Chief of Or­gan­iz­a­tion Stud­ies, pub­lished by EGOS and Sage.
Organization Studies