Lecturer in Management

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 223 1248
• Email: o.suhomlinova@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 404, Level 4, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Olga received her BA in Economics from Moscow State University, Russia, and MA and PhD in Sociology from Duke University, USA.  Prior to joining University of Leicester School of Management, she held appointments at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Duke University, and Nottingham University Business School.  Her research interests are divided between the micro level studies of leadership and identity in public sector organisations (education and health care) and the macro level studies of industry evolution (construction, oil, and financial services).  She is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Management Studies and published in American Sociological Review, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Public Administration, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis.  Her research has been supported by grants from the Institute for the Study of World Politics (USA), British Academy, and the NHS National Institute for Health. 

Research Interests

Theory: institutionalism; organisational ecology; leadership; identity. Empirical applications: secondary education, NHS, financial services, oil

Teaching

MN2100: Managing Organisations (BA Management Studies, Year Two)
MN7203: Organisational Behaviour (MBA)

Administrative Responsibilities

Programme Leader, MBA (Distance Learning)
Member, Research Committee

Most Recent Publications

Andrea Whittle, Olga Suhomlinova, Frank Mueller. 2010. Beyond translation and entrepreneurship: dialogue and distributed agency in institutional transmission. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 46 (1): 16-37. [ABS 2 (2009)/1 (2010)].

Graeme Currie, Andy Lockett, Olga Suhomlinova. 2009. The institutionalization of distributed leadership: A ‘Catch-22’ in English public services. Human Relations 62: 1735–1761. [ABS 4].

Graeme Currie, Andy Lockett, Olga Suhomlinova. 2009. Leadership and institutional change in the public sector: The case of secondary schools in England. The Leadership Quarterly, 20: 664–679 [ABS 4].

Full listing of publications

Olga Suhomlinova. 2007 Property rules: State fragmentation, industry heterogeneity and property rights in the Russian oil industry, 1992-2006. Human Relations, 60(10): 1443–1466 [ABS 4].

Graeme Currie and Olga Suhomlinova. 2007. Organizational contingencies. Pp. 3299-3302 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 1405124334.

Olga Suhomlinova. 2006 Toward a model of organizational co-evolution in transition economies. Journal of Management Studies, 43 (7): 1537-1558. [ABS 4].

Graeme Currie and Olga Suhomlinova. 2006. The impact of institutional forces upon knowledge sharing in the UK NHS: The triumph of professional power and the inconsistency of policy. Public Administration 84 (1): 1-30. [ABS 3].

Graeme Currie, Inger Boyett and Olga Suhomlinova. 2005. Transformational leadership within secondary schools in England. A Panacea for Organizational Ills? Public Administration 83 (2): 265-296. [ABS 3].

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