Paula Jarzabkowski
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Professor
Paula Jarzabkowski
Email: : p.jarzabkowski@uq.edu.au
Positions
Professor in Strategy : School of Business : Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
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.
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Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is: : Available for supervision
Works
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All (137) Book (5) Journal Article (83) Other Outputs (12) Conference Publication (26) Book Chapter (11)
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
2025
Conference Publication
Opening ethnography: extending the use of ethnographic datasets
Grossmann-Hensel, Ben, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Seidl, David and Spee, Andreas Paul (2025). Opening ethnography: extending the use of ethnographic datasets. 85th Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025.
Opening ethnography: extending the use of ethnographic datasets
2025
Conference Publication
Practices of Using Public Policy Processes as Future-Making Tools
Meissner, Katie, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Skade, Lorenzo (2025). Practices of Using Public Policy Processes as Future-Making Tools. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2025.13465abstract
Practices of Using Public Policy Processes as Future-Making Tools
2025
Conference Publication
Building the canoe as we're paddling it: generating collective responsibility for a societal challenge
Jarzabkowski, P., Riordan, T., Meissner, K. and Gallagher, R. (2025). Building the canoe as we're paddling it: generating collective responsibility for a societal challenge. 41st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 3-5 July 2025. European Group for Organizational Studies.
2025
Journal Article
Insurance Options in a Climate Changed Future: The Way Forward for Urban Climate Policy and Practice
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie and Mason, Matthew (2025). Insurance Options in a Climate Changed Future: The Way Forward for Urban Climate Policy and Practice. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, 4 (1), 15-35. doi: 10.3138/jccpe-2024-0029
Insurance Options in a Climate Changed Future: The Way Forward for Urban Climate Policy and Practice
2025
Conference Publication
Practices of using public policy processes as future-making tools?
Meissner, Katie, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Skade, Lorenzo (2025). Practices of using public policy processes as future-making tools?. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025. Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States: Academy of Management.
Practices of using public policy processes as future-making tools?
2025
Conference Publication
Opening Up, Shutting Down: How Open Organizing Deflects Crisis in Opaque Sectors
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Krull, Elisabeth, Yakis-Douglas, Basak and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2025). Opening Up, Shutting Down: How Open Organizing Deflects Crisis in Opaque Sectors. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2025.24201abstract
Opening Up, Shutting Down: How Open Organizing Deflects Crisis in Opaque Sectors
2025
Conference Publication
Public policy processes as future making tools?
Jarzabkowski, P., Meissner, K. and Skade, L. (2025). Public policy processes as future making tools?. 41st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 3-5 July 2025. European Group for Organizational Studies.
Public policy processes as future making tools?
2025
Conference Publication
Opening Ethnography: Extending the Use of Ethnographic Datasets
Grossmann-Hensel, Benjamin, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Spee, A. Paul (2025). Opening Ethnography: Extending the Use of Ethnographic Datasets. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/amproc.2025.16600abstract
Opening Ethnography: Extending the Use of Ethnographic Datasets
2025
Journal Article
What’s ‘natural’ about disasters? Practice theory as an emancipatory lens for reconceptualising the social construction of disasters
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie, Riordan, Tyler and Gallagher, Rosie (2025). What’s ‘natural’ about disasters? Practice theory as an emancipatory lens for reconceptualising the social construction of disasters. The Journal of Practice Theory, 1-12. doi: 10.71936/xz4v-vp76
2025
Book Chapter
Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good : Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies
Gehman, Joel, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Langley, Ann and Tsoukas, Haridimos (2025). Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good : Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies. Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good. (pp. 1-24) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/9780198956679.003.0001
2025
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 (2025). Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy. Academy of Management Collections, 4 (2), 55-76. doi: 10.5465/amc.2023.0005
2025
Other Outputs
Resilient housing programs: a framework for evaluation
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie, Taylor, Neil, Tyler, Riordan and Gallagher, Rosie (2025, 04 04). Resilient housing programs: a framework for evaluation Hazard Notes 1-4.
Resilient housing programs: a framework for evaluation
2025
Journal Article
Tackling grand challenges: insights and contributions from practice theories
Danner-Schroeder, Anja, Mahringer, Christian, Sele, Kathrin, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Rouleau, Linda, Feldman, Martha, Pentland, Brian, Huysman, Marleen, Sergeeva, Anastasia, Gherardi, Silvia, Sutcliffe, Kathleen M. and Gehman, Joel (2025). Tackling grand challenges: insights and contributions from practice theories. Journal of Management Inquiry, 34 (2), 143-166. doi: 10.1177/10564926241292262
Tackling grand challenges: insights and contributions from practice theories
2025
Journal Article
Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking
Knight, Eric, Lok, Jaco, Jarzabkowski, Paula and Wenzel, Matthias (2025). Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 68 (2), 326-356. doi: 10.5465/amj.2021.1389
Sensing the Room: The Role of Atmosphere in Collective Sensemaking
Funding
Current funding
- 2024 - 2027
T4-A6 Evaluating the Resilient Homes Fund
Natural Hazards Research Australia
Open grant - 2023 - 2026
Modelling impacts of natural hazards on interconnected infrastructure networks
Natural Hazards Research Australia
Past funding
- 2024 - 2026
Thought Leadership Program of Research: ''Insurance Risk Pooling - Four dimensions of Resilience''
Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation
Open grant - 2020 - 2023
Financial responses to terrorism risk and systemic risk in Australia: insurability and economic and societal resilience
Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation
Open grant - 2019 - 2025
High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes
ARC Discovery Projects
Supervision
Availability
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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: Professor Paul Spee - Doctor Philosophy
##### Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses ventures
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jonah Zankl, Associate Professor Frederik von Briel
Completed supervision
- 2025
Doctor Philosophy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarel Gronum
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