Mary Jo Hatch

C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce

Office phone: 434-924-1096
e-mail: mjhatch@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
M.B.A., Finance, Indiana University
B.A., English Literature, Indiana University

Areas of Expertise:

Organization theory; organizational culture, identity, and image; corporate branding; organizational symbolism; jazz as a metaphor for leading and organizing; and the aesthetics of leadership.

Professional Activities:

Professor Hatch’s research has been published in Academy of Management Review; California Management Review; Harvard Business Review; Organization; Organization Studies; Organization Science; Administrative Science Quarterly; Journal of Management Inquiry; Human Relations; Strategic Organization; and European Journal of Marketing. She was European editor for Journal of Management Inquiry from 1995 to 2000 and sits on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review; Corporate Reputation Review; Human Relations; International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management; Organization Studies; and Scandinavian Journal of Management. She is past chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. The second edition of Hatch’s textbook, Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives (2006), is available from Oxford University Press, which also published The Expressive Organization: Linking Identity, Reputation and the Corporate Brand (2000, co-edited with M. Schultz and M. H. Larsen) and Organization Identity: A Reader (with M. Schultz). Her co-authored book, The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest (with M. Kostera and A. Koźmiński), was published by Blackwell in 2005. Hatch is currently writing a book on corporate branding and its basis in organizational identity.

Selected Publications:

"Guiding Organizational Identity through Aged Adolescence," Journal of Management Inquiry, 2006 (with K. Corley, C. V. Harquail, M. G. Pratt, M. Glynn, and C. M. Fiol).

"The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest," Organizational Dynamics, 2006 (with M. Kostera and A. K. Koźmiński).

"Building Theory from Practice," Strategic Organization, 2005 (with M. S. Schultz).

"Dynamics in Organizational Culture," In: M.S. Poole and A. Van de Ven, eds. Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2004. 

"The Cycles of Corporate Branding: The Case of LEGO Company," California Management Review, 2003 (with M. S. Schultz).

"The Dynamics of Organizational Identity," Human Relations, 2002 (with M. S. Schultz).

"Are the Strategic Stars Aligned for Your Corporate Brand?" Harvard Business Review, February 2001 (with M. S. Schultz).

"Exploring the Empty Spaces of Organizing: How Improvisational Jazz Helps Redescribe Organizational Structure," Organization Studies, 1999.