Staff profile

Dr Fiona Sutherland

Senior Lecturer, Faculty Higher Degree by Research Program Director

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Deakin University), Masters Commerce by Research (Deakin University), Graduate Diploma Business (CCAE), Bachelor of Arts (ANU)

Membership of professional associations

Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Academy of Management (AOM), British Academy of Management (BAM), member of the editorial Board for the Journal of Change Management

Area of study

Management

Brief profile

Dr Fiona Sutherland has been in academia for over twenty-six years, joining the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law in March 2009. Prior to this, she worked at Deakin University, Victoria College, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Before moving into higher education, Fiona worked in the public service in Canberra. She gained her Research Masters in Commerce, and her PhD from Deakin University.

Fiona has taught across a number of units in the Management discipline at both undergraduate and graduate level. These include Organisational Behaviour, Strategic Management, Organisation Theory, Organisational Change, and Business Communications. Her principal areas of research are organisational studies, forms of organising and organisational change.

Fiona is co-author with Professor Aaron Smith (RMIT University) of a research book titled Philosophies of Organizational Change (2011). The book is published by Elgar Publishing.

Fiona is also first author of a leading Australian textbook on organisational change which has proved very successful both in Australia and overseas. It is now in its 3rd edition, published in 2011.

Fiona is the recipient and Chief Investigator (CIs) of an ARC Discovery Project Grant. Funding is for a 3-year period, from February 2011 to February 2014. The research project, titled 'Organising for control in innovation-driven firms: Managing the efficiency-flexibility duality' , is administered from La Trobe University. Co-Chief Investigators on the project are Professor Aaron Smith (RMIT), Professor Ian Palmer (RMIT), and Professor Richard Dunford (Uni of Sydney).

Fiona has also published several journal articles and her theoretical work on dualities as well as articles on leadership and strategic change have been cited in a number of well regarded journals.

Research specialisation

- Organisational change and innovation

Teaching units

Organisational Analysis

Organisational Behaviour

Recent publications

Journal articles

Sutherland, F. & Smith, A. (2011) ‘Duality Theory and the Management of the Change-Stability Paradox', Journal of Managment Organization, 17(4), 534-547.

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2010) ‘Managing organizational change: A philosophies of change approach’, Journal of Change Management, 10(2), 135-154.

Smith, A., Stewart, B., Oliver-Bennetts, S., McDonald, S., Ingerson, L., Anderson, A., Dickson, G., Emery, P., & Graetz, F. (2010) ‘Contextual Influences and Athlete Attitudes to Drugs in Sport’, Sport Management Review, 13(3), 181-197.

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2009). 'Changing forms of Organizing in Australian Public Companies', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, 47(3).  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2009). ‘Duality Theory and Organizing Forms in Change Management’, Journal of Change Management, 9(1): 9-25.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2008). ‘The role of dualities in arbitrating continuity and change in forms of organizing’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 10(3): 265-280.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2006). ‘Duality and Organizing Forms in Change Management’, International Journal of Applied Management of Change, 1(2): 1-15.  

Smith, A. & Graetz, F. (2006). ‘Complexity Theory and Organizing Form Dualities’, Management Decision, 44(7): 851-870.  

Smith, A. & Graetz, F. (2006). ‘Organizing Dualities and Strategizing for Change’, Strategic Change, 15: 231-239.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2006). ‘Critical Perspectives on the Evolution of New Forms of Organizing’, The International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 1(1/2): 127-142.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2005). ‘Organizing Forms in Change Management: The Role of Structures, Processes and Boundaries in a Longitudinal Case Analysis’, Journal of Change Management, 5(3): 311-328. (fourth most downloaded article)  

Graetz, F. (2002) ‘Strategic Thinking vs. Strategic Planning: towards understanding the complementarities’, Management Decision, 40(5), 456-462. (Highly Commended Award 2003, Emerald Literati Club)  

Graetz, F. (2000) ‘Strategic Change Leadership’. Management Decision, 38(8), 550-562.  

Graetz, F. (1996) ‘Leading Strategic Change at Ericsson’. Long Range Planning, 2(3), 304-313.  

Scholarly Books and book chapters

Sutherland, Fiona & Smith, Aaron C.T. (2012) Leadership for the Age of Sustainability: A Dualities Approach to Organizational Change. In R. Todnem By & B. Burnes (Eds.) Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics: Leading Organizations towards Sustainability, Oxford, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).

Smith, A. & Graetz, F. (2011) Philosophies of Organizational Change, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, The Lypiatts, Gloucestershire, UK.

Graetz, F., Rimmer, M., Smith, A. & Lawrence, A. (2011) Managing Organisational Change (3rd edn), John Wiley and Sons, Brisbane.

Graetz, F., Rimmer, M., Lawrence, A. & Smith, A. (2006) Managing Organisational Change (second edition), John Wiley and Sons, Brisbane.  

Graetz, F., Rimmer, M., Lawrence, A. & Smith, A. (2002) Managing Organisational Change, John Wiley and Sons, Brisbane.

Lawrence, A. & Graetz, F. (1999) ‘The HRD Practitioner's Role as Change Agent. In F. Sofo (ed.) Human Resource Development: Paradigm, Role and Practice Choices, Sydney: Woodslane.  

Graetz, F., Macneil, J. & McWilliams, J. (1998) ‘Encouraging Strategic Thinking at ‘Communication Co’: Linking Behavioural Styles to creativity’. In G. Griffin (ed). Management Theory and Practice: Moving to a New Era, Melbourne, Prentice Hall, 209-235.  

Hagel, P. & Graetz, F. (1998) ‘William Angliss Institute—standing alone’. In S.P. Robbins and N. Barnwell, Organisation Theory: concepts and cases, 3rd edn, Sydney, Prentice Hall.  

Conference papers

Sutherland, F., Smith, A. & Gilbert D. (2012). Organizing Forms Dualities: Theory, Concept, Guidelines and Next Steps. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, 4-7 August 2012.

Sutherland, F., & Smith, A. (2012). Paradox and the Innovation-Control Dilemma in Organizational Change. 28th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Helsinki, Finland,  5-7 July 2012.

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2010). Managing paradox and organizational change: A dualities perspective. International Federation of Scholarly  Associations of Management (IFSAM) Conference, Paris, France.

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2010) ‘Making the most of paradox: A dualities approach’, 26th EGOS Colloquium, 28 June-3 July, Lisbon, Portugal.

Young, S. & Graetz, F. (2010) ‘Transaction costs and beyond to duality approaches in evaluating public sector outsourcing in Australia’, European Academy of Management 10th Annual Conference, 18-22 May, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.

Hagel, P., Graetz, F., Azmat, F., Parris, M., Saville, K. & Zutshi, A. (2009) 'Collaborative inquiry using learning projects'. Accepted as a full paper for the HERDSA 2009 conference, 6-9 July, Darwin.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2009) 'Managing organizational change: A philosophies of change approach'. Accepted as a full paper for the British Academy of Management Conference (BAM), 15-17 September, Brighton, UK.  

Anderson A. Dickson, G, Emery, P., Graetz, F., Ingerson, L., McDonald, S., Oliver-Bennetts, S., Smith, A. & Stewart, B. ‘The influence of context on player and athlete attitudes to drugs in sport’, Sports Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference, 26-28 November 2008, Fremantle, Western Australia.  

Graetz, F. (2008) ‘Duality Theory and Forms of Organizing’, British Academy of Management Conference, 8-11 September, Harrogate, United Kingdom.  

F. Azmat, F. Graetz, P. Hagel & D. Waddell (2008) ‘Cooperative Inquiry in a Business School: Scope, process and dimensions’, Institute of Teaching and Learning Conference, Deakin University 18-19 June 2008.  

Graetz, F. & Smith, A. (2006) ‘Balancing Continuity and Change Through Forms of Organising’, Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, 6-9 December, Central Queensland University.  

Graetz, F., Graetz, B. & Smith, A. (2005) ‘New Forms of Organizing in Australia, 2000 to 2004’, Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies, 11th International Colloquium, Melbourne, Australia, 4-7 December 2005.

Graetz, F. (2003) ‘New Forms of Organising: Changing Structures, Processes and Boundaries in a Public Sector Institution.’ Proceedings of British Academy of Management 2003 Conference.  

Graetz, F. (2001) ‘Strategic Thinking versus Strategic Planning: Recognising the Complementarities.’ Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 1(3), February, pp. 224-232, (ISSN – 1174-8419).

Graetz, F. Macneil, J. & McWilliams, J. (1997) ‘Encouraging strategic thinking at “Communications Co.”': Linking behavioural styles to creativity’. Conference Proceedings, Anzam 1997 Annual Conference, p. 140 (ISBN 0 7326 1402 3). (Awarded best paper: strategy stream)  

Hagel, P. & Graetz, F. (1996) ‘Learning and the Knowledge Based Organisation: Theory and Practice in a Public Sector Organisation’, Refereed Papers, ANZAM 1996 Annual Conference, Volume 1, pp. 101-112. (ISBN 07299 03559).  

Graetz F. (1995) ‘Understanding Corporate Transformation’, page 116, Abstracts Conference Papers, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Annual Conference, 3 to 6 December, Townsville, Queensland, (ISBN:0 86443 563 0).

Graetz, F. (1994) ‘Leading Change at Ericsson Australia’. Paper presented at ANZAM 1994, Wellington NZ.  

Online seminar series

Graetz, F. (2009). ‘Managing organizational change: A philosophies of change approach’, in C. Carnall (ed.), Change Management: The theory and practice of strategic change; making sense of how to make effective change, The Marketing & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London (online at http://www.hstalks.com/?t=MM0232306-Graetz).