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Teaching

BU7001 - Management Research Project

BU7002 - Management Research Methods

PGR/PhD supervision

DBA and DProf - Research Methods phase

Personal Academic Tutor (PAT)

Research

My research interests include flexible working discourses and their ideological underpinnings, organisational communication and ethnographic and narrative approaches to organisational analysis.

Indicators of Esteem

Conference an Network Committee Memberships:

  • AoM, CMS, EGOS, SCOS, ICOD

Journal Board Memberships:

  • Management Learning – Associate Editor
  • Organization Studies – Editorial Board member

Awards/Appointments:

  • Reviewer of the year (2019) – Management Learning

  • Top cited paper 2020-2021 – European Management Review

Other Research Activities

  • Reviewer for: Human Relations; Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion; Issues of Management (Problemy Zarządzania); Sage Open; TAMARA Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry; Zarządzanie w kulturze (Management in Culture); Leadership; Management Learning; New Technology, Work and Employment; Journal of Organizational Change Management; Ephemera; British Journal of Management; International Journal of Manpower; Culture and Organization; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Organization Studies; International Management Research Academy; Futures journal; Journal of Management Inquiry; Journal of Information Technology; Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; European Management Review; Universal Journal of Industrial and Business Management; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Management History
  • Managing editor of: the Special Issue of Futures journal (‘The Futures of Capitalism’) published in 2015; the Special Issue of Tamara journal of Critical Organizational Inquiry (‘Untold stories’) published in 2014; the Special Issue of Culture and Organization journal (‘Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home’) to be published in 2023.
  • Editorial Advisory Board member: Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses: High Tech Organizations and Workplaces (2012) (eds. Jemielniak, D. and Marks, A.)
  • Mentor for Working Paper Nursery
  • Reviewer for the British Council Newton Fund Grants
  • Co-organiser of the research seminar series organized by Organisation and Management Studies Group (Lincoln Business School) from 2012 – 2015
  • Stream’s co-convener at the APROS/EGOS conference (Sydney, 2015) The Liminality of Organizational Space.
  • Higher Education Academy – HEA Senior Fellow
  • Chartered Management Institute – Member
  • Co-organizer of the Organizational Discourse Conference (Amsterdam, 2016)
  • Stream co-convener at the Critical Management Studies Conference (Liverpool, 2017) Reclaiming Flexibility - ‘Workplace flexibility’ in the contemporary economy
  • Stream co-convener at the Critical Management Studies Conference (Milton Keynes, 2019) Flexible working arrangements – boundary work or boundless work?
  • Stream co-convener at the Critical Management Studies Conference (New Delhi, 2021) Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home. 
  • Visiting academic (sabbatical) in VU Amsterdam (2017)
  • Visiting academic (sabbatical) in Copenhagen Business School (2017)
  • Member of the board for reviewing Work Wise UK smarter working excellence standards
  • Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) – Subject specialist/ Assessor (Business and Management)
  • External Examiner: University of Sheffield; University of Suffolk

Organising/hosting impact events (e.g. business round tables)

  • Organizer of the Organizational Storytelling Conference (international, practitioner and academic) (Roehampton, London, UK; University of Lincoln, UK) in 2014 and 2018.
  • Workshop delivered at European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) Strategic Foresight and Capabilities Unit at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
  • This engagement may potentially lead to further collaboration (which may have capacity for impact). Participants: Researchers at the European Parliament, Think tanks, MEPs assistants. 2021

Published Work

Journal Articles

  • Izak, Michal; Case, Peter and Ybema, Sierk (2022) ‘Monologue and Organization Studies’, Organization Studies (earlycite).
  • Izak, Michal; Shortt, Harriet; and Case, Peter (2022) ‘Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: an auto-photographic account of work-life boundary transitions’, Management Learning.
  • Reissner, Stefanie; Izak, Michal and Hislop, Donald (2021) ‘Configurations of Boundary Management Practices Among Flexible Workers’, Work, Employment and Society, 35(2): 296-315.
  • Bal, Matthijs and Izak, Michal (2021) ‘The flexibility paradox: an integrative review of research on workplace flexibility’, European Management Review, (18): 37-50. – Top-cited paper in 2021 award
  • Shortt, Harriet and Izak, Michal (2021) ‘Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: the significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life’, Human Relations, 74(10): 1688-1715.
  • Hagos, Sirak, Izak, Michal and Scott, Jonathan. (2019) ‘Objective institutionalized barriers and subjective performance factors of new migrant entrepreneurs’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 25(5): 842-858.
  • Izak, Michal (2016) ‘Nothing left to learn: translation and the Groundhog Day of bureaucracy’, Management Learning, 47(5): 543-562.
  • Izak, Michal (2015) ‘Situational liminality: mis-managed consumer experience in liquid modernity’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 31: 178-191.
  • Izak, Michal; Mansell, S. and Fuller, T. (2015) ‘Between No Future and Business-As-Usual: Exploring Futures of Capitalism’, Futures (68): 1-4.
  • Izak, Michal (2013) ‘Learning from a Fool: Searching for the ‘unmanaged’ context for radical learning’, Management Learning, 46(1): 87-104.
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘Translucent Society and its Non-fortuitous Design: Producing and Consuming Reality through Images’, Culture and Organization, 20(5): 359-376.
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘A Story-in-the-making: An Intertextual Exploration of a Multivoiced Narrative’, TAMARA Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry, 12(1): 41-57.
  • Izak, M., Kostera, M and Zawadzki, M. (Eds.) (2017) The Future of University Education. London: Pelgrave.
  • Izak, M; Hitchin, L. and Anderson D. (Eds.) (2015) Untold Stories in Organizations. London: Routledge.
  • Izak, Michal (2022) ‘Reducing reductionism, halting holism – some reflections on writing for humans’, in: Kostera, Monika (Ed.) Writing Differently. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 127-135.
  • Shortt, Harriet and Izak, Michal (2020) ‘The contested home’, in: Martin Parker (ed) Life after Covid-19: The other side of crisis. Bristol University Press: Bristol, pp. 43-52.
  • Izak, Michal and Kostera, Monika (2020) ‘King Popiel, the killer mice and the story of the post-lie leadership’, in: Matt Statler and Wendelin Küpers (eds) Leadership and Wisdom Lessons from folklore. London: Routledge.
  • Izak, Michal and Kostera, Monika (2019) ‘There is hope in organizing: Dialogic imagination against linearity’, in: Daniel Ericsson and Monika Kostera (eds) Organizing Hope: Narratives for a better future. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 176-187.
  • Izak, Michal (2015) ‘Analiza fikcji literackich i filmowych’ (‘Analyzing Fiction’), in: Zarządzanie humanistyczne: Metody i inspiracje badawcze. (Humanistic Management: Methods and Inspirations) (ed. Kostera, M.), Warsaw: Sedno.
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘Transcending liquidity: Towards a new embeddedness’ - in: Liquid Organization’ (eds. Kostera, M. and Kociatkiewicz, J.), Routledge: London, pp. 153-169.
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘The critical approach to Critical Management Studies’, in: Zawadzki, M. and Sulkowski, L. (Eds) The Handbook of Critical Organization Studies. Warsaw: Difin.
  • Izak, Michal and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (2014) ‘Zespół w Kryzysie: Rozpad Organizacji w Filmie Obcy Ridleya Scotta’ (‘A team’s crisis: The organizational collapse in Ridley Scott’s Alien’, in: Kostera, M. (Ed.) O zarzadzaniu historie niezwykle: Studia przypadku z zarzadzania humanistycznego, (Amazing Stories in Management: Case Studies in Humanistic Management). Warsaw: Poltext.

Books

  • Izak, M., Kostera, M and Zawadzki, M. (Eds.) (2017) The Future of University Education. London: Pelgrave. 
  • Izak, M; Hitchin, L. and Anderson D. (Eds.) (2015) Untold Stories in Organizations. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

  • Izak, Michal (2022) ‘Reducing reductionism, halting holism – some reflections on writing for humans’, in: Kostera, Monika (Ed.) Writing Differently. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 127-135. 
  • Shortt, Harriet and Izak, Michal (2020) ‘The contested home’, in: Martin Parker (ed) Life after Covid-19: The other side of crisis. Bristol University Press: Bristol, pp. 43-52. 
  • Izak, Michal and Kostera, Monika (2020) ‘King Popiel, the killer mice and the story of the post-lie leadership’, in: Matt Statler and Wendelin Küpers (eds) Leadership and Wisdom Lessons from folklore. London: Routledge. 
  • Izak, Michal and Kostera, Monika (2019) ‘There is hope in organizing: Dialogic imagination against linearity’, in: Daniel Ericsson and Monika Kostera (eds) Organizing Hope: Narratives for a better future. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 176-187. 
  • Izak, Michal (2015) ‘Analiza fikcji literackich i filmowych’ (‘Analyzing Fiction’), in: Zarządzanie humanistyczne: Metody i inspiracje badawcze. (Humanistic Management: Methods and Inspirations) (ed. Kostera, M.), Warsaw: Sedno. 
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘Transcending liquidity: Towards a new embeddedness’ - in: Liquid Organization’ (eds. Kostera, M. and Kociatkiewicz, J.), Routledge: London, pp. 153-169. 
  • Izak, Michal (2014) ‘The critical approach to Critical Management Studies’, in: Zawadzki, M. and Sulkowski, L. (Eds) The Handbook of Critical Organization Studies. Warsaw: Difin. 
  • Izak, Michal and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (2014) ‘Zespół w Kryzysie: Rozpad Organizacji w Filmie Obcy Ridleya Scotta’ (‘A team’s crisis: The organizational collapse in Ridley Scott’s Alien’, in: Kostera, M. (Ed.) O zarzadzaniu historie niezwykle: Studia przypadku z zarzadzania humanistycznego, (Amazing Stories in Management: Case Studies in Humanistic Management). Warsaw: Poltext

 

Qualifications

PhD in Management Studies