Miss Cagla Yavuz MA, BA.

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PhD thesis title: The role of organizational habitus in organizational responses to institutional complexities

My doctoral research explores how organizational distinctiveness (habitus) is influential in the ways that organizational members interpret, make sense and respond to institutional complexities in the field of higher education in Turkish, Canadian and UK contexts. Relying on constructivist paradigm, I carry out a cross-cultural comparative study, which is based on qualitative comparative cases, with the aim of comparing data derived from six different universities, which are situated in different socio-political fields. I have conducted over 100 interviews with academics holding senior positions at various institutions.

Supervisors: Professor Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Professor Jeremy Howells

Funding Agencies: PGR Faculty Scholarship, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Southampton

My visits to Alberta Business School as a visiting scholar in 2013/Fall and 2015/Spring were funded by World Universities Network and PGR Conference and Research Support Grant, University of Southampton.

I am currently a doctoral researcher at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK, where I have been working as a research fellow over three years. I received my B.A and M.A degrees in Business Administration at Mugla University and Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, respectively.

During the doctorate process at Southampton Business School, I was fortunate to get acceptance as a visiting researcher from Alberta Business School, in the periods of 2013/Fall and 2015/Spring. This experience helped me to not only advance my doctoral research theoretically and methodologically, but also built strong connections with eminent institutional scholars and doctoral researchers at the University of Alberta, which will continue throughout of my academic career and facilitate collaborative work for joint publications.

My research interests include issues such as organisational culture, history, leadership, strategy and role of the inter-organisational and organisational dynamics on organisational formation, and, in turn responses to institutional change processes (complexities) from process-relational and multi-dimensional perspective in the field of higher education, sharing economy and social entrepreneurship. I pursue a research active career, which is reflected in my research outputs and publications. I have presented my research at the leading conferences (e.g. EGOS, EURAM), published book chapters and articles in the refereed journals. Research projects that I have been working on were funded by prestigious research institutions, namely, British Council, British Academy and Newton Fund. I also have manuscripts in the pipeline to be submitted to highly ranked and impactful journals.