Professor John Amis

Professor John Amis

Visiting Professorial Fellow
Business School
School of Management and Governance

John Amis is Professor of Strategic Management & Organisation at the University of Edinburgh where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Strategic Leadership. He is also a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales. His research, largely centring on issues of organizational, institutional and societal change, has been published in leading journals that include Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, American Journal of Public Health, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Organization Studies. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies and a former Associate Editor at Academy of Management Review. He is a former Chair of the Organization Development & Change division of the Academy of Management and Chaired the Organizing Committee for the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium held in Edinburgh in 2019. In 2022 he won the Best Published Paper Award from the Organization & Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management and has twice been runner-up for the Academy of Management Journal’s annual Best Paper Award.

  • Journal articles | 2026
    Ronzani M; Gatzweiler MK; Amis J; Spicer A, 2026, 'Addiction and Organization Studies', Organization Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406261418204
    Journal articles | 2026
    Öztürk D; Amis JM, 2026, 'Relationship Splintering and Repair: The Dynamics of Marginalization in Organizations', Academy of Management Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2022.1042
    Journal articles | 2025
    Adams TL; Brock DM; Muzio D; Amis J, 2025, 'From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 61, pp. 181 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00218863251328730
    Journal articles | 2025
    Chaudhry A; Amis JM, 2025, 'Desperate Journeys to Europe: Sensebreaking in Extreme Contexts', Journal of Management Studies, 62, pp. 1153 - 1190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.13174
    Journal articles | 2021
    Gümüsay AA; Amis JM, 2021, 'Contextual Expertise and the Development of Organization and Management Theory', European Management Review, 18, pp. 9 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emre.12434
    Journal articles | 2020
    Amis JM; Janz BD, 2020, 'Leading Change in Response to COVID-19', The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56, pp. 272 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886320936703
    Journal articles | 2018
    Amis JM; Munir KA; Lawrence TB; Hirsch P; McGahan A, 2018, 'Inequality, Institutions and Organizations', Organization Studies, 39, pp. 1131 - 1152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840618792596