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Annie Pye is a Professor of Organization Studies. Her research interests include leadership and governance, management and organization change across time and space/context. She adopts a process-oriented sensemaking perspective and conducts qualitative research into how people ‘run’ complex organizations and organize to achieve high reliability.
Annie’s work is published in journals including Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, British Management Journal and Corporate Governance: an International Review. Her research has also been reported in the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and other media outlets and City journals.
She is currently co-editing a Special Issue of Management Learning (with Dr Ian Colville and Professor Andrew Brown) on Sensemaking and Learning (due for publication in early 2016) She has also recently co-edited a Special Issue of Human Relations (with Dr Ian Colville and Professor Andrew Brown) on Sensemaking, Organizing and Storytelling (published January 2012).
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Additional activities
Annie is an editorial board member of Organization Studies and Leadership.
She is an invited member of the Academic Advisory Board of the UK Chartered Institute of Management.
She is also a member of:
- American Academy of Management (AoM)
- British Academy of Management (BAM)
- European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS)
- International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
- Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)
- Strategy-as-Practice Network
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In addition to contributing to government consultations on the UK Code of Corporate Governance, the Davies Review, the ICSA Review of Higgs Guidance of Board Effectiveness and the Walker Review of the corporate governance of UK banks, Annie's research has underpinned recent Keynote Speaker presentations which she has given to:
- The Windsor Leadership Trust
- British Academy of Management Special Interest Group on Leadership and Governance
- Exeter Leadership Partners
- and as a Roundtable Panelist on Corporate Governance for the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, held in City of London.
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2023
- Gilani, P., Boldaen, R. and Pye, A. 2023. Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development. Leadership 19(1), pp. 63-84. (10.1177/17427150221133888)
2020
- Dai, W., Gosling, J. and Pye, A. 2020. The inclusiveness and emptiness of Gong Qi: a non-Anglophone perspective on ethics from a Sino-Japanese corporation. Journal of Business Ethics 165, pp. 277-293. (10.1007/s10551-019-04308-3)
2017
- Hawkins, B., Pye, A. and Correia, F. 2017. Boundary objects, power, and learning: the matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations. Management Learning 48(3), pp. 292-310. (10.1177/1350507616677199)
2016
- Colville, I., Pye, A. and Brown, A. D. 2016. Sensemaking processes and Weickarious learning. Management Learning 47(1), pp. 3-13. (10.1177/1350507615616542)
2015
- Brown, A. D., Colville, I. and Pye, A. 2015. Making sense of sensemaking in organization studies. Organization Studies 36(2), pp. 265-277. (10.1177/0170840614559259)
2013
- Correia, F., Howard, M., Hawkins, B., Pye, A. and Lamming, R. 2013. Low carbon procurement: An emerging agenda. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management 19(1), pp. 58-64. (10.1016/j.pursup.2012.11.004)
- Colville, I., Pye, A. and Carter, M. 2013. Organizing to counter terrorism: Sensemaking amidst dynamic complexity. Human Relations 66(9), pp. 1201-1223. (10.1177/0018726712468912)
- Pye, A. 2013. Boards and governance: 25 years of qualitative research with directors of FTSE companies.. In: Wright, M. et al. eds. The Oxford handbook of corporate governance. Oxford: OUP, pp. 135-162., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642007.013.0006)
2012
- Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S. and Pye, A. 2012. Antecedents of Board Composition: The Role of Nomination Committees. Corporate Governance: An International Review 20(5), pp. 474-489. (10.1111/j.1467-8683.2012.00913.x)
- Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S. and Pye, A. 2012. Board task-related faultlines and firm performance: a decade of evidence. Corporate Governance: An International Review 20(4), pp. 337-351. (10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00895.x)
- Colville, I., Brown, A. D. and Pye, A. 2012. Simplexity: sensemaking, organizing and storytelling for our time. Human Relations 65(1), pp. 5-15. (10.1177/0018726711425617)
- Kaczmarek, S., Kimino, S. and Pye, A. 2012. Interlocking directorships and firm performance in highly regulated sectors: the moderating impact of board diversity. Journal of Management & Governance 18(2), pp. 347-372. (10.1007/s10997-012-9228-3)
- Pye, A., Kaczmarek, S. and Kimino, S. 2012. Changing scenes in and around the boardroom: UK Corporate governance in practice from 1989 to 2010.. In: Clarke, T. and Branson, D. eds. The SAGE handbook of corporate governance. London: Sage Publications, pp. 255-284.
2010
- Colville, I. and Pye, A. 2010. A sensemaking perspective on network pictures. Industrial Marketing Management 39(3), pp. 372-380. (10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.03.012)
2008
- Balogun, J., Pye, A. and Hodgkinson, G. 2008. Cognitively Skilled Organizational Decision making: Making Sense of Deciding.. In: Hodgkinson, G. and Starbuck, W. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision-Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 233-249., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199290468.003.0012)
2006
- Pye, A. and Pettigrew, A. 2006. Strategizing and Organizing: Change as a Political Learning Process, Enabled by Leadership. Long Range Planning 39(6), pp. 583-590. (10.1016/j.lrp.2006.10.010)
2005
- Pye, A. 2005. Professor Iain Mangham (23 Nov 1936-8 Dec 2004). Journal of Management Studies 42(4), pp. 889-891. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00524_1.x)
- Pye, A. and Pettigrew, A. 2005. Studying board context, process and dynamics: some challenges for the future. British Journal of Management 16(s1), pp. S27-S38. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00445.x)
- Knight, L. and Pye, A. 2005. Network learning: An empirically derived model of learning by groups of organizations. Human Relations 58(3), pp. 369-392. (10.1177/0018726705053427)
- Pye, A. 2005. Leadership and organizing: sensemaking in action. Leadership 1(1), pp. 31-49. (10.1177/1742715005049349)
2004
- Knight, L. and Pye, A. 2004. Exploring the relationships between network change and network learning. Management Learning 35(4), pp. 473-490. (10.1177/1350507604048274)
- Pye, A. 2004. The importance of context and time for understanding board behavior: some lessons from social capital research.. International Studies of Management and Organization 34(2), pp. 63-89. (10.1080/00208825.2004.11043700)
2003
- Pye, A. and Camm, G. 2003. Non-executive directors: moving beyond the ‘one-size-fits-all’view. Journal of General Management 28(3), pp. 52-70.
2002
- Pye, A. 2002. The changing power of 'explanations': directors, academics and their sensemaking from 1989 to 2000. Journal of Management Studies 39(7), pp. 907-925. (10.1111/1467-6486.00317)
- Pye, A. 2002. Corporate Directing: governing, strategising and leading in action. Corporate Governance 10(3), pp. 153-162. (10.1111/1467-8683.00280)
2001
- Pye, A. 2001. Corporate Boards, Investors and Their Relationships: accounts of accountability and corporate governing in action. Corporate Governance 9(3), pp. 186-195. (10.1111/1467-8683.00246)
- Pye, A. 2001. A study in studying corporate boards over time: looking backwards to move forwards. British Journal of Management 12(1), pp. 33-45. (10.1111/1467-8551.00184)
2000
- Pye, A. 2000. Changing scenes in, from and outside the board room: UK corporate governance in practice from 1989 to 1999. Corporate Governance 8(4), pp. 335-346. (10.1111/1467-8683.00212)
- Bate, P., Khan, R. and Pye, A. 2000. Culturally sensitive structuring: An action research-based approach to organization development and design. Public Administration Quarterly 23(4), pp. 455-470.
- Bate, P., Khan, R. and Pye, A. 2000. Towards a culturally sensitive approach to organization structuring. Organization Science 11(2), pp. 197-211. (10.1287/orsc.11.2.197.12509)
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Teaching commitments
- MBA: Organizational Behaviour
- MSc in International Management: International Research Plan and Project
- MSc: guest lectures on Leadership and Global Challenges
Additional teaching
Annie also teaches leadership, organizational change and governance
- Directors, top management teams and board process
- Leadership and governance
- Sensemaking and organizing
- High reliability organizations
- Power and politics
- Leading and managing change
Core to these interests is a unique series of ESRC-funded research projects in which Annie has returned to the same people and also the same (or similar) FTSE100 companies every ten years (i.e. 1987-1989; 1998-2000; and 2008-2011) to interview the Chief Executive, Chairman, Finance director and other board and executive team members to study ‘how does a small group of people ‘run’ a large complex organization?’
PhD supervision research interests
- Sensemaking and organizing
- Board effectiveness and top management team process
- Corporate governance
- High reliability organizations
- Leading and managing change