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Paula Jarzabkowski
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# Paula Jarzabkowski

**Source**: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/15353
**Parent**: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/60445

Professor

# Paula Jarzabkowski

Email:
:   [p.jarzabkowski@uq.edu.au](mailto: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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### Availability

Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is:
:   Available for supervision

## Works

[Search Professor Paula Jarzabkowski’s works on UQ eSpace](http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/list/author_id/1687272)

[All
(137)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/all)
[Book
(5)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/4747)
[Journal Article
(83)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/4748)
[Other Outputs
(12)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/4749)
[Conference Publication
(26)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/4751)
[Book Chapter
(11)](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts-publication/15353/4752)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:4cfae22)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:22adbe8)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1da7ee6)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:414679)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:365406)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:340925)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:23a576c)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:4381881)

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.

[Building the canoe as we're paddling it: generating collective responsibility for a societal challenge](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:b3c050e)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d8661d7)

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?](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:5045e25)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:860b0e5)

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?](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71e48ad)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:e9559dd)

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

[What’s ‘natural’ about disasters? Practice theory as an emancipatory lens for reconceptualising the social construction of disasters](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:2c7bfb0)

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

[Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good : Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:6568bd6)

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

[Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:725d598)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:b0cff64)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:786202c)

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](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:3ff16b7)

## Funding

### Current funding

- 2024 - 2027

  T4-A6 Evaluating the Resilient Homes Fund

  Natural Hazards Research Australia

  [Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/60445)
- 2023 - 2026

  Modelling impacts of natural hazards on interconnected infrastructure networks

  Natural Hazards Research Australia

  [Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/60386)

### Past funding

- 2024 - 2026

  Thought Leadership Program of Research: ''Insurance Risk Pooling - Four dimensions of Resilience''

  Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation

  [Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/65928)
- 2020 - 2023

  Financial responses to terrorism risk and systemic risk in Australia: insurability and economic and societal resilience

  Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation

  [Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/47525)
- 2019 - 2025

  High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes

  ARC Discovery Projects

  [Open grant](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/37034)

## Supervision

### Availability

Professor Paula Jarzabkowski is:
:   Available for supervision

Looking for a supervisor? Read our advice on [how to choose a supervisor](https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/phd-mphil-professional-doctorate/how-to-choose-a-supervisor).

### 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](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/3049)
- Doctor Philosophy

  ##### Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses ventures

  Associate Advisor

  Other advisors:
  [Dr Jonah Zankl](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/42949), [Associate Professor Frederik von Briel](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/24498)

#### Completed supervision

- 2025

  Doctor Philosophy

  ##### [Building Resilience in Small Farms: Adaptive Strategies for Extreme Weather Events in Vulnerable and Resource-constrained Contexts](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:23fadbf)

  Associate Advisor

  Other advisors:
  [Associate Professor Sarel Gronum](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/12810)

## Media

### Enquiries

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## External profiles

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8674-6628)
- [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6508195381)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=jofbUSsAAAAJ)

## Personal links

- [Personal profile](https://business.uq.edu.au/profile/1823/paula-jarzabkowski)
- [Personal website](https://www.paulajarzabkowski.com/)

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