We are delighted to announce the 2024 Irish Academy of Management Distinguished International Scholar is Professor Jean Bartunek, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. This event will be facilitated by Professor Michael Morley, University of Limerick.

Dr Jean Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Organisational Studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA. Jean is a past President of the Academy of Management, from which she won the Distinguished Service Award. She is also a past Dean of the Fellows of the Academy of Management, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and the Center for Evidence-Based Management. She has served as an associate editor of many leading journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, and the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.

Over the last forty years, Jean has published numerous articles in the highest-rated journals in her field. Jean’s research focuses on organisational change and transformation but with related interests in social cognition, sensemaking, affect and conflict. Jean is particularly interested in the interface between academics and practitioners, between theory and practice and rigour and relevance. She challenges us as scholars to think about what makes management research interesting to others, about evidence-based management and about planned and emergent organisational change. In all of these areas Jean has made a substantial contribution to our scholarly knowledge but also to management practice in successful organisational change, a topic of critical importance.