Overview
Background
Areas of expertise:
- The insurance protection gap on multiple perils including terrorism, climate change and major weather events such as bushfires, hurricanes and floods.
- Financial protection and resilience to disaster in both advanced and developing economies
- Insurance markets as underpinning the economy, including mortgages, credit and lending
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is a global expert in the public-private mechanisms proliferating around the world to address the insurance protection gap. The insurance protection gap is the economic loss from catastrophic events that is not insured. In advanced economies, the burden of paying for recovery from disasters then falls upon the government and taxpayers. In low-income countries, disaster recovery sets back economic gains by decades affecting the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people.
The insurance protection gap is rapidly increasing due to climate change, yet climate-driven risk is not insurable because it is systemic, meaning frequent, correlated, and severe. Global insurance markets rely on highly-diversified risks, in which premiums on many different risks pay for the losses on a few risks in any country at any one time. Climate change, be that through more severe and frequent Caribbean hurricanes, Australian bushfires, and European floods, compounds global losses, generating a systemic effect of spiralling premiums, withdrawal of insurance, and unprotected assets that create the insurance protection gap.
Currently, Paula is researching the changing nature of terrorism risk and how we can remain financially resilient to risks such as civil unrest, cyber attack, explosive threats, or lone attacker events; how we can reconfigure the insurance market around sharing the risk of climate change, with a particular Australian focus on flood and cyclone risk; and how innovations in disaster risk financing, such as disaster liquidity insurance, can be used to support climate adaptation and response.
Paula is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management and a Fellow of the British Academy. Paula is a member of the Expert Advisory Group, Pool Reinsurance Company UK; a Board Member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) High Level Advisory Board for the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risks; and has been Co-Chair of the Expert Advisory Group of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, Centre for Global Disaster Protection.
Availability
- Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is:
- Available for supervision
Works
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Featured
2020
Journal Article
Toward a process theory of making sustainability strategies legitimate in action
Hengst, Iris-Ariane, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Hoegl, Martin and Muethel, Miriam (2020). Toward a process theory of making sustainability strategies legitimate in action. Academy of Management Journal, 63 (1) amj.2016.0960, 246-271. doi: 10.5465/amj.2016.0960
Featured
2019
Journal Article
The social practice of co-evolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Lê, Jane Kirsten and Balogun, Julia (2019). The social practice of co-evolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (3), 850-882. doi: 10.5465/amj.2016.0689
Featured
2018
Journal Article
Toward a social practice theory of relational competing
Jarzabkowski, Paula and Bednarek, Rebecca (2018). Toward a social practice theory of relational competing. Strategic Management Journal, 39 (3), 794-829. doi: 10.1002/smj.2724
Featured
2017
Journal Article
Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change
Spee, Paul and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2017). Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change. Organization Science, 28 (1), 152-176. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2016.1105
Featured
2015
Journal Article
Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice
Smets, Michael, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Burke, Gary T. and Spee, Paul (2015). Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice. Academy of Management Journal, 58 (3), 932-970. doi: 10.5465/amj.2012.0638
Featured
2015
Book
Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Spee, Paul (2015). Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2024
Conference Publication
Multistakeholder Partnerships and Climate Adaptation: Insights From Switzerland’s Disaster Insurance
Cacciatori, Eugenia, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2024). Multistakeholder Partnerships and Climate Adaptation: Insights From Switzerland’s Disaster Insurance. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024), Chicago, IL United States, 9-13 August 2024. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.375bp
2024
Conference Publication
Making Strategies for the First Time
Li, Qian and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2024). Making Strategies for the First Time. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024), Chicago, IL United States, 9-13 August 2024. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.13514abstract
2024
Journal Article
Routine formation as a layered process
Spee, Paul, Kho, Joanna, Jenkins, Anna and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2024). Routine formation as a layered process. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 88, 203-220. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x20240000088010
2024
Journal Article
Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking
Knight, Eric, Lok, Jaco, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Wenzel, Matthias (2024). Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal. doi: 10.5465/amj.2021.1389
2024
Journal Article
Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Lê, Jane, Seidl, David and Vaara, Eero (2024). Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy. Academy of Management Collections.
2024
Journal Article
Valuing what you risk and risking what you value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne J. and Meissner, Katie (2024). Valuing what you risk and risking what you value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies. Organization Studies. doi: 10.1177/01708406241290038
2024
Book Chapter
Preface: The value of an alternative view of paradox and its family of concepts
Bednarek, Rebecca, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Le, Jane (2024). Preface: The value of an alternative view of paradox and its family of concepts. Performing organizational paradoxes. (pp. XII-+) edited by Gail T. Fairhurst and Linda L. Putnam. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2023
Journal Article
Practicing impact and impacting practice? Creating impact through practice-based scholarship
Hamdali, Yanis, Skade, Lorenzo, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Nicolini, Davide, Reinecke, Juliane, Vaara, Eero and Zietsma, Charlene (2023). Practicing impact and impacting practice? Creating impact through practice-based scholarship. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33 (3), 230-243. doi: 10.1177/10564926231219621
2023
Journal Article
Triggers, traps, and disconnect: how governance obstacles hinder progress on grand challenges
Couture, Fannie, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Lê, Jane Kirsten (2023). Triggers, traps, and disconnect: how governance obstacles hinder progress on grand challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 66 (6), 1651-1680. doi: 10.5465/amj.2020.1716
2023
Journal Article
EXPRESS: Translating, co-creating, and performing: reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca, Chalkias, Konstantinos, Cacciatori, Eugenia, Kavas, Mustafa, Krull, Elisabeth and Gallagher-Rodgers, Rhianna (2023). EXPRESS: Translating, co-creating, and performing: reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance. Strategic Organization. doi: 10.1177/14761270231218094
2023
Other Outputs
Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne and Meissner, Katie (2023). Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Journal Article
Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*
Bednarek, Rebecca, Cacciatori, Eugenia, Chalkias, Konstantinos, Gallagher Rodgers, Rhianna, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Kavas, Mustafa and Krull, Elisabeth (2023). Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 60 (1), 194-214. doi: 10.1177/00218863231207873
2023
Book
Disaster insurance reimagined: protection in a time of increasing risk
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Chalkias, Konstantinos, Cacciatori, Eugenia and Bednarek, Rebecca (2023). Disaster insurance reimagined: protection in a time of increasing risk. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192865168.001.0001
2023
Conference Publication
Impact as an iterative process: building continuity through teamwork
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Bednarek, Rebecca, Cacciatori, Eugenia, Chalkias, Konstantinos, Gallagher Rodgers, Rhianna and Kavas, Mustafa (2023). Impact as an iterative process: building continuity through teamwork. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, United States, 4-8 August 2023. Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2023.12115abstract
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
From exclusion to inclusion: Reconciling the paradoxes by which different groups of the underinsured are excluded from financial protection for extreme weather disasters.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Paul Spee
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Doctor Philosophy
Climate change adaption of MSMEs agrifood value chains in the Philippines
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sarel Gronum
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Doctor Philosophy
Sensemaking for biodiversity loss in the infrastructure industry
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cristyn Meath
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Doctor Philosophy
Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses ventures
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jonah Zankl, Associate Professor Frederik von Briel
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