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Professor Paula Jarzabkowski
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Paula Jarzabkowski

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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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115 works between 1998 and 2024

1 - 20 of 115 works

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

Toward a process theory of making sustainability strategies legitimate in action

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

The social practice of co-evolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change

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

Toward a social practice theory of relational competing

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

Agreeing on what? Creating joint accounts of strategic change

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

Reinsurance Trading in Lloyd's of London: balancing conflicting-yet-complementary logics in practice

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.

Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry

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

Multistakeholder Partnerships and Climate Adaptation: Insights From Switzerland’s Disaster Insurance

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

Making Strategies for the First Time

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

Routine formation as a layered process

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

Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking

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.

Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy

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

Valuing what you risk and risking what you value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies

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.

Preface: The value of an alternative view of paradox and its family of concepts

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

Practicing impact and impacting practice? Creating impact through practice-based scholarship

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

Triggers, traps, and disconnect: how governance obstacles hinder progress on grand challenges

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

EXPRESS: Translating, co-creating, and performing: reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance

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.

Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology

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

Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*

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

Disaster insurance reimagined: protection in a time of increasing risk

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

Impact as an iterative process: building continuity through teamwork

Funding

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Thought Leadership Program of Research: ''Insurance Risk Pooling - Four dimensions of Resilience''
    Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2026
    T4-A6 Evaluating the Resilient Homes Fund
    Natural Hazards Research Australia
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    Modelling impacts of natural hazards on interconnected infrastructure networks
    Natural Hazards Research Australia
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2020 - 2023
    Financial responses to terrorism risk and systemic risk in Australia: insurability and economic and societal resilience
    Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Climate change adaption of MSMEs agrifood value chains in the Philippines

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarel Gronum

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Sensemaking for biodiversity loss in the infrastructure industry

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cristyn Meath

  • 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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