'Publishing Context-Rich Research in Top Journals' Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation Expert Session

Professor Minbaeva has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, cases and reports. She is the author of the book Leading Strategic Transformation: the H-Factor (Emerald Publishing) and a co-author of The Encyclopaedia of Strategic International Management (Edward Elgar Publishing) and Workforce Analytics: a Global Perspective (Routledge). Her research has appeared in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management and Human Resource Management, among others.

A Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Professor Minbaeva has received several national and international awards for her research achievements, including the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award in 2013. She has extensive editorial experience with top international journals and is currently an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review.

Professor Minbaeva is actively involved in MBA and executive teaching across several European business schools. She has previously taught in Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russia and Spain and held visiting research positions in Australia, Canada and Ireland. She also holds a part-time position at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and is the founder and director of Nordic Human Capital Advisory Anpartsselskab, a boutique consultancy dedicated to promoting evidence-based management practices.

The topic of this presentation is 'Publishing Context-Rich Research in Top Journals'. This expert session will explore how much of general management research continues to privilege theories built around an 'average individual in an average context', producing work that is predictable and easily publishable, but rarely transformative. Rather than treating context as noise to be controlled away, Professor Minbaeva argues that context should be positioned as a source of theoretical leverage - one that enables us to question assumptions, surface boundary conditions and develop more robust and pluralistic theories of management. Context-rich research does not weaken generalisability - it strengthens it by making our theories more honest, more relevant and ultimately more impactful in a diverse and uneven world.

The expert session is for an internal audience and will be held on 23 April 2026, 1:00pm, in room LG01 of the Henley Business School building, Whiteknights campus. For those unable to attend in person there is also the option to dial in remotely via Microsoft Teams. If you are interested in joining, please contact Alex Baker on a.j.baker@henley.ac.uk

Members of LOBR faculty may also request to book a one to one meeting with Professor Minbaeva. Each appointment will last 30 minutes, between 10:30am to 12:30pm. Slots are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. To arrange an appointment, please contact Dr Anastasiya Saraeva on anastasiya.saraeva@henley.ac.uk

This expert session is part of the LOBR research seminar series, co-ordinated by Professor Bernd Vogel and Dr Anastasiya Saraeva.