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Associate Professor, Organisation & HRM, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Innan Sasaki is Associate Professor, Organisation & HRM at Warwick Business School. Previously she worked as a senior lecturer at Lancaster University, and as a guest research associate in University of Kyoto in Japan. Innan teaches competitive and corporate strategy and family business in MSc and Undergraduate programmes.

Innan is interested in investigating how marginalized actors (such as endangered craft, indigenous people, and refugees) manage to uphold their traditions and culturally survive. More specifically, her research interests include tradition, history, and time in organizations, organizational culture, and institutional theory (with the focus on marginalized actors and legitimacy). She has studied traditional creative industries, with the focus on survival and revival of craft-based organizations.

Her work has received best paper awards and is published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the European Group of Organization Studies and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in Strategic Management, Lancaster University