Background

Profile 

Dr Harsh Kumar Jha is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Newcastle University Business School, UK. His research explores how organisations and entrepreneurs make sense of and respond to external environmental pressures; race, gender and class inequities; and entrepreneurship (both early stage and social). His current projects include examining evolution of narratives of change in English legal services; impact of race, gender and class on likelihood of entry into various professions; how early stage entrepreneurs respond to threatening feedback; and the influence of corporate scandals on the types of legitimacy claims made in CSR reports. Dr Jha is a member of the editorial board at the Journal of Management Studies and an adhoc reviewer for Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Studies. He teaches a variety of courses in management, international management and research methods areas, at MBA, MSc and undergraduate levels. 

Education

PhD in Management, University of California, Irvine, USA (2017)

MSc in Management Research, University of Oxford, UK (2009)

PGDM in Marketing & HRM, Symbiosis International University, India (2004)

BA(Hons) in Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India (2001)

Professional Service

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Management Studies

Adhoc Reviewer - Administrative Science Quarterly; Organization Studies; Human Relations; Journal of Professions and Organization 

Managerial Experience

Six years of sales, marketing and product management functions in telecom, consumer durable and social industries.  

Research

Academic Areas: Organizational Theory; Managerial and Organizational Cognition; Strategy

Current Research 

Professional services (law and consulting)

Higher education (race, class and gender)

Corporate scandals and stigma (including CSR)

Social Enterprise (identity and impact)

Computational Sociology (topic modeling)

Teaching

Postgraduate

NBS8061-8961 Managing across Cultures (Module Leader)

NBS8265 Managing Change in Organisations 

NBS8289 and NBS8327 Research Methods 

Undergraduate

BUS3057 International Business Diplomacy (Module Leader)

BUS3035 Contemporary Issues in International and Comparative Business

BUS2031 Managing Change 

Publications

• Jha HK. Actors' field position, interpretation of change and mode of action during transformational change in an established professional fields: The case of market based reforms in English legal services. In: 34th EGOS Colloquium. 2018, Tallinn, Estonia: European Group for Organizational Studies.
• Jha HK, Jacob D. Emergence of a professional sub-field: The case of design thinking. 2018. In Preparation.
• Jha HK, Kozhevnikov A, Liu B. Influence of organizational stigmatization on legitimacy claims in CSR disclosures. In: 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. 2018, Chicago, IL, USA: Academy of Management.
• Jha HK, Wharton R, Giazitzoglu A. Stuck at the gates? An analysis of gender, class and ethnicity based distribution of students in university undergraduate professional programs. In: British Academy of Management 2018 Conference. 2018, Bristol: British Academy of Management.
• Bohn S, Jha HK, Perendija A. Topic modeling and Management Research Mapping fields with big data - Evidence from two research projects. In: AOM Specialized Conference: Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy. 2018, Surrey, UK: Academy of Management.
• Toivonen T, Idoko O, Jha HK, Harvey S. When unexpected feedback threatens your very existence: “Creative jolts” along the idea journeys of new entrepreneurs. In: European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS). 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.
• Jha HK, Beckman CM. A Patchwork of Identities: Emergence of Charter Schools as a New Organizational Form. In: Marc-David L. Seidel , Henrich R. Greve, ed. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017, pp.69-107.
• Jha HK. Actors' field position, interpretation of change and mode of action during transformational change in an established professional fields: The case of market based reforms in English legal services. In: 9th International Process Symposium. 2017, Greece.
• Jha HK, Beckman CM. A Patchwork of Identities: Emergence of Charter Schools as a New Organizational Form. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. 2016, Annaheim, USA: Academy of Management.
• Jha HK, Beckman CM. A Patchwork of Identities: Emergence of Charter Schools as a New Organizational Form. In: Advancing Research on Social Innovation Meeting. 2016, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK.