Contact Dr Ibrat Djabbarov
Background
Prior to joining Cranfield School of Management, Ibrat's work focused on leading strategic change and innovation to improve healthcare in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. At Cranfield, Ibrat studies how organisations navigate through complex environments and accomplish systems change. Ibrat holds an MD, MSc in Global Health (Oxford) and MBA (Henley). His blog - www.metamanaging.org - explores how we live and lead in the complex world.
Research opportunities
Ibrat's research explores the dynamics of strategic (systems) change and innovation in healthcare through sensemaking perspective and institutional theory. Ibrat is also interested in exploring the role of empathy, framing, and paradox in change.
Current activities
Working Board Member - Responsible Research in Business and Management (www.rrbm.network)
Founder - New Scholars (www.newscholars.network)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Kutsch E, Siala H, Cantarelli C & Djabbarov I. (2025). Categorizing errors in high‐reliability organizations: adaptive range and adaptive capacity in incident response. Risk Analysis, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print)
- Djabbarov I, Pavlov A & Denyer D. (2024). All Change: How Peripheral Actors Theorize Change in Mature Fields. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1)
- Djabbarov I, Milner D, Pavlov A, Murcia MJ, Zundel M, .... (2024). Agency at the Crossroads: New Paths, Problems, and Perspectives for a Central Concept. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1)
- Djabbarov I, Pavlov A & Denyer D. (2023). How Theorization and Institutionalization Co-evolve Over Time. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1)
- Kutsch E, Djabbarov I & Hall M. (2021). How managers frame and make sense of unexpected events in project implementation. International Journal of Project Management, 39(5)