Dr Harsh Jha
Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation
- JhaH@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75721
- Aberconway Building, Room Room F03, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Management, Employment & Organisation section at Cardiff Business School. My research interests include exploration of how actors construct meaning and seek legitimacy through discourse, and intersectionality of ethincity, race, gener and class in various social mobility relevant outcomes.My research has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Professions and Organization and Research in the Sociology of Organizations; was runner-up for the Best International Paper Award, OMT division at AOM 2021; and was nominated for the Carolyn B. Dexter Award by MOC division at AOM 2020. I am a member of the editorial board at the Journal of Management Studies and a regular reviewer for Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Human Relations and Journal of Professions and Organization. Before joining academia, I worked for over six years in sales, marketing and product management functions in telecom, consumer durables and social care industries in India and UK.
Publication
2023
- Jha, H. and Wharton, R. 2023. Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes. Studies in Higher Education 48(7), pp. 1052-7. (10.1080/03075079.2023.2182281)
- Toivonen, T., Idoko, O., Jha, H. K. and Harvey, S. 2023. Creative jolts: exploring how entrepreneurs let go of ideas during creative revision. Academy of Management Journal 66(3), pp. 829-858. (10.5465/amj.2020.1054)
2022
- Villeseche, F., Meliou, E. and Jha, H. K. 2022. Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective. Human Relations 79(10), pp. 1903-1927. (10.1177/00187267221083665)
2021
- Tripathi, V. R., Jha, H. K., Popli, M., Shah, P. and Desai, G. 2021. Clinic, community, and in-between: the influence of space on real-time translation of medical expertise by frontline healthcare professionals in marginal tribal communities. Journal of Professions and Organization, article number: joab012. (10.1093/jpo/joab012)
- Bohn, S., Lohmeyer, N., Jha, H. K. and Reinecke, J. 2021. Hostile frame takeover: co-opting the security frame in the German nuclear energy debate. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, Chicago, USA, August 2021. 1 Vol. 16557., (10.5465/AMBPP.2021.198)
2020
- Jha, H. K. and Jacob, D. 2020. Legitimizing a practice across fields: microprocesses of theorization of design thinking. Journal of Professions and Organization 7(2), pp. 156-187. (10.1093/jpo/joaa007)
2017
- Jha, H. K. and Beckman, C. M. 2017. A patchwork of identities: emergence of charter schools as a new organizational form. In: Seidel, M. and Greve, H. R. eds. Emergence., Vol. 50. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 69-107., (10.1108/S0733-558X20170000050003)
Articles
- Jha, H. and Wharton, R. 2023. Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial, gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes. Studies in Higher Education 48(7), pp. 1052-7. (10.1080/03075079.2023.2182281)
- Toivonen, T., Idoko, O., Jha, H. K. and Harvey, S. 2023. Creative jolts: exploring how entrepreneurs let go of ideas during creative revision. Academy of Management Journal 66(3), pp. 829-858. (10.5465/amj.2020.1054)
- Villeseche, F., Meliou, E. and Jha, H. K. 2022. Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective. Human Relations 79(10), pp. 1903-1927. (10.1177/00187267221083665)
- Tripathi, V. R., Jha, H. K., Popli, M., Shah, P. and Desai, G. 2021. Clinic, community, and in-between: the influence of space on real-time translation of medical expertise by frontline healthcare professionals in marginal tribal communities. Journal of Professions and Organization, article number: joab012. (10.1093/jpo/joab012)
- Jha, H. K. and Jacob, D. 2020. Legitimizing a practice across fields: microprocesses of theorization of design thinking. Journal of Professions and Organization 7(2), pp. 156-187. (10.1093/jpo/joaa007)
Book sections
- Jha, H. K. and Beckman, C. M. 2017. A patchwork of identities: emergence of charter schools as a new organizational form. In: Seidel, M. and Greve, H. R. eds. Emergence., Vol. 50. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 69-107., (10.1108/S0733-558X20170000050003)
Conferences
- Bohn, S., Lohmeyer, N., Jha, H. K. and Reinecke, J. 2021. Hostile frame takeover: co-opting the security frame in the German nuclear energy debate. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, Chicago, USA, August 2021. 1 Vol. 16557., (10.5465/AMBPP.2021.198)
Research
My research interests can be broadly divided into two streams.
- How actors construct meaning and seek legitimacy – I am interested in exploring how actors communicate knowledge and participate in discursive struggles over contested issues in public media to legitimize their positions (discourse analysis, framing, sensemaking/sensegiving, translation and frame analysis).
- Social mobility and inclusion – I am interested in exploring intersectionality of ethnicity, race, class and gender with respect to various social mobility relevant outcomes, especially in higher education and school education fields.
I explore these interests in a variety of empirircal contexts, such as, professional occupations (especially law and health care), education, social enterpreneurship and CSR. Methodologically, I use both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Further, I also specialize in the application of machine learning tools (e.g. topic modeling) for analysing large media datasets.
Biography
Academic Positions
2021 - Present: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Cardiff University, UK
2016 - 2021: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Newcastle University, UK
Education
PhD in Management, University of California, Irvine, USA (2017)
MSc in Management Research, University of Oxford, UK (2009)
PGDM in Marketing & HRM, Symbiosis International University, India (2004)
BA (Hons) in Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India (2001)