Dr Mustafa Kavas

PhD, FHEA

Management School

Lecturer in Strategic Management

Programme Director for MSc Management (International Business)

M.Kavas@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3274

D.050, Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Mustafa Kavas
Management School
D.050
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL

Profile

Dr Mustafa Kavas is currently a Lecturer in Strategic Management at Sheffield University Management School (SUMS). Prior to joining SUMS, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, where he focused on developing risk-sharing mechanisms to mitigate the economic impacts of pandemics.

He received his PhD in Strategic Management from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. His doctoral research delved into the dynamics between spirituality and strategy practices within family firms. His research has been published in various journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, Strategic Organization, and Organization Theory. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr Kavas contributes to the wider scholarly community as a member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Organization and as the Treasurer for the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group at the Academy of Management.

Qualifications

PhD in Strategic Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, United Kingdom
MRes in Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, United Kingdom
Master of International Business, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada
Bachelor of Arts in International Trade, Bogazici University, Turkey

Research interests: My main research interest lies in the nexus of spirituality and strategy practices within family firms. My research particularly focuses on how religious beliefs inform and shape the strategizing processes and practices of family firms operating in the Anatolian part of Turkey, where religion permeates society. I am also interested in strategy-as-practice in pluralistic and paradoxical contexts.

Publications

Journal articles

Jarzabkowski P, Bednarek R, Cacciatori E, Chalkias K, Gallagher Rodgers R & Kavas M (2023) Impact as an Iterative Process: Building Continuity through Teamwork. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1).
Jarzabkowski P, Kavas M & Krull E (2021) It’s practice. But is it strategy? Reinvigorating strategy-as-practice by rethinking consequentiality. Organization Theory, 2(3). View this article in WRRO
Jarzabkowski P, Krull E, Kavas M & Chalkias K (2021) Strategies for responding to pandemic risk: Removal and/or redistribution. Journal of Financial Transformation, 54, 62-69.
Kavas M, Jarzabkowski P & Nigam A (2020) Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion in Business. Journal of Business Ethics, 163(4), 689-700.
Karakas F, Sarigollu E & Kavas M (2015) Discourses of Collective Spirituality and Turkish Islamic Ethics: An Inquiry into Transcendence, Connectedness, and Virtuousness in Anatolian Tigers. Journal of Business Ethics, 129(4), 811-822.
Karakas F & Kavas M (2009) Service‐learning 2.0 for the twenty‐first century. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 17(1), 40-59.
Karakas F & Kavas M (2008) Creative brainstorming and integrative thinking: skills for twenty‐first century managers. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 22(2), 8-11.
Jarzabkowski P, Bednarek R, Chalkias K, Cacciatori E, Kavas M, Krull E & Gallagher-Rodgers R () EXPRESS: Translating, co-creating, and performing: Reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance. Strategic Organization.
Bednarek R, Cacciatori E, Chalkias K, Gallagher Rodgers R, Jarzabkowski P, Kavas M & Krull E () Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.

Conference proceedings papers

Kavas M, Nigam A & Jarzabkowski P (2021) Exploring the Inclusion and Exclusion Paradox within the Performances of Organizational Rituals. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2021(1), 26 July 2021.
Kavas M, Jarzabkowski P & Nigam A (2017) Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion on Business. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017(1) (pp 11602-11602) View this article in WRRO

Reports

Kavas M, Schanz K-U, Jarzabkowski P, Cacciatori E, Chalkias K & Krull E (2021) 'A risk perspective – Removing pandemic risk from the market versus redistribution of risk' in Public-Private Solutions to Pandemic Risk: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trade-offs

Research group

Organization Studies (OS)

Teaching activities: I am the module leader for MGT385 Strategy Practice.

Professional activities and memberships

Member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Organization,
Treasurer for the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group at the Academy of Management.