Dr Olga Ryazanova

    School of Business, Faculty of Social Sciences

    Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    Social Sciences Associate Dean of Strategy and Governance

    Callan Building
    1st
    2.105
    (01) 708 3921

    Biography

    Olga Ryazanova is a Lecturer in Management at Maynooth University School of Business. Her primary research interests are in the governance and strategic management of higher education institutions, with the particular focus on the interactions between the individual and the organisational outcomes. At the organisational level, the focus of Olga's research is on scientific performance and societal impact of universities. At the individual level, her research focus is on academic careers and doctoral education. 

    Dr. Ryazanova’s research has been published in top academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal, Research Policy and Journal of World Business. Her work has received the Global Forum Award of the Management Education and Development division of the Academy of Management in 2014 and 2018, and has been selected as a finalist for Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award in 2016.

    Dr. Ryazanova serves an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal (since 2020) and is currently putting her research into practice as an Associate Dean for Strategy and Governance at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Maynooth University.

    Dr. Ryazanova is an active member of the Academy of Management, where Management Education & Development division is her primary home.  

    Research Interests

    My main area of interest is the strategic management of higher education institutions. Within this broad area, I conduct research on the drivers of scientific productivity, the management of academic careers, and the business of business schools.

    Current funded research project:

    - SFI-funded project "(In)visible work: understanding and measuring research translation into policy" [2024-2026]

    Previous funded research projects:

    - H2020-funded project CHAMELEONS - focusing on doctoral education and employability of doctoral graduates outside academia - https://www.chameleonsproject.eu/

    - MUSSI-funded project on the role that scientists with dual institutional affiliations play in building inter-organisational research networks

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Championing A Multi-Sectoral Education and Learning Experience to Open New Pathways for Doctoral Students collaborator 01/05/2020 147653.75
    Investigating the effect of joint affiliations on formation and performance of collaboration networks in academia co-PI 01/01/2021 3777.63
    The Role of Local Social Identity in Interorganisational imitation Choices: the case of strategic transformation of the Irish Rugby Football Union co-PI 17/06/2019 26/07/2019 1500
    Exploring Best Practice in the Large-Class First Year Students' Assessment and Feedback: Focus on the Innovative and Technology Supported Approaches co-PI 01/01/2016 31/12/2016 5000
    Career Competences for Researchers'' Access to Flexible career Trajectories PI 18/09/2023 17/09/2025 12378

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2024 Ryazanova, O.; McNamara, P.; Andreeva, T. (2024) 'WHEN HARD-WORKING BEES DO NOT MAKE A PRODUCTIVE BEEHIVE: LEGITIMACY TENSIONS IN SOCIETAL IMPACT GOVERNANCE AND HOW TO NAVIGATE THEM'. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 23 . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2023 Credit, K; Ryazanova, O; McNamara, P (2023) 'The role of organisational- and country-level factors in the volume and public visibility of business and management research'. PLoS ONE, 19 (6). [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2022 Ryazanova O.; Jaskiene J. (2022) 'Managing individual research productivity in academic organizations: A review of the evidence and a path forward'. Research Policy, 51 (2). [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Ryazanova O.; McNamara P. (2019) 'Choices and consequences: Impact of mobility on research-career capital and promotion in business schools'. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18 (2):186-212. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Ryazanova, O., McNamara, P., & Aguinis, H. (2017) 'Research performance as a quality signal in international labor markets: Visibility of business schools worldwide through a global research performance system'. Journal of World Business, 52 :831-841. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Olga Ryazanova, Peter Mc Namara (2016) 'Socialization and Pro-active Behavior: Multilevel Exploration of Research Productivity Drivers in the US Business Schools'. ACADEMY OF MANGAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION, 15 (3):525-548. [DOI] [Full-Text]

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2016 Ryazanova, O., McNamara, P., & Aguinis, H. (2016) Academy of Management Conference A comprehensive and multi-purpose global research performance information system [Full-Text]
    2014 Ryazanova, O.I. & Mc Namara, P. (2014) Academy of Management Conference Language, Socialization and Networks: Knowledge Creation in Globalized Business Schools [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2012 Ryazanova, O. and Mc Namara, P. (2012) Academy of Management Conference Between Symbolic and Social Capital: A Structuration Theory Approach to Academic Productivity Boston, USA, [Full-Text]
    2020 Keeley, A, Ryazanova, O. and McNamara, P (2020) Academy of Management (Management Education and Development Division) Teaching Capabilities of Doctoral Graduates: PhD Learning Outcomes and Labor Market Expectations

    Editorial

    Year Publication
    2023 Paul Hibbert, Arran Caza, Diego M. Coraiola, Megan Gerhardt, Danna Greenberg, Oliver Laasch, Dirk Lindebaum, Clare Rigg, Olga Ryazanova and April L. Wright (2023) Why be an editor?. [Editorial] [DOI]
    2022 Laasch, O; Ryazanova, O; Wright, AL (2022) LINGERING COVID AND LOOMING GRAND CRISES: ENVISIONING BUSINESS SCHOOLS' BUSINESS MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS. BRIARCLIFF MANOR: [Editorial] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Ryazanova, O; Wright, A; Laasch, O (2021) STUDYING THE ONGOING CHANGE AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL: WHO AM I (BECOMING) AS A MANAGEMENT EDUCATOR AND RESEARCHER?. BRIARCLIFF MANOR: [Editorial] [DOI]
    2021 Hibbert, P; Coraiola, DM; Caza, A; Gerhardt, M; Greenberg, D; Laasch, O; Lindebaum, D; Rigg, C; Ryazanova, O; Wright, AL (2021) INTERPRETING OUR TRADITION. BRIARCLIFF MANOR: [Editorial] [DOI]

    Electronic Journal

    Year Publication
    2024 Ryazanova. O., McNamara. P., Connolly, N. (2024) How to balance the strengths and weaknesses of founder-managers. [Electronic Journal] [Link]

    Magazine Article

    Year Publication
    2024 Ryazanova, Olga; McNamara, Peter; Andreeva, Tatiana (2024) Key questions to help universities measure societal impact. [Magazine Article] [Link]

    Electronic Publication

    Year Publication
    2022 Olga Ryazanova and Jolanta Jaskiene (2022) Managing individual research productivity in academic organisations: seven key insights. [Electronic Publication] [Link]
    2021 Olga Ryazanova (2021) Why hybrid working will be a challenge for many companies. [Electronic Publication] [Link]

    Blog

    Year Publication
    2019 Olga Ryazanova (2019) Mobility and gender matter in speed of promotion and development of career capital. [Blog] [Link]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2024 Keeley, A.; Ryazanova, O. &; Mc Namara, P. (2024) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Noise, Noise Everywhere: Mixed Signals from Academic Promotion Decisions Chicago, USA, .
    2023 Ryazanova, O., Zappa, P. (2023) Academy of Management Annual meeting Network Gains from Co-Affiliation with Multiple Organizations: Insights from Academic Careers Boston, MA, . https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.11389abstract
    2023 Ryazanova, O, McNamara, P, Andreeva, T, David, J, DeJong, S, and Aguinis, H. (2023) Academy of Management Conference, Professional Development Workshop Presentation Demonstrating the Societal Impact of Business School Research Boston, .
    2023 Keeley, A; Ryazanova, O.; Mc Namara, P. (2023) 39th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium Academic promotion decisions: Exploring the credibility of signals during promotions in business schools Cagliari, Italy, .
    2023 Keeley, A., Ryazanova, O., & Mc Namara, P. (2023) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Why wasn’t I promoted? Exploring the ambiguity of linguistic signals in academic promotion documents Boston, USA, .
    2023 Singh, Poonam, Ryazanova, Olga, and Mc Namara, Peter (2023) European Academy of Management (EURAM) Academic Awards and Global South: Inequality and Underrepresentation Dublin, 14/06/2023-16/06/2023.
    2022 Keeley, A., & Ryazanova, O. (2022) EGOS (European Group for Organisational Studies) Colloquium Short Description Exploring the heterogeneity of linguistic signals in academic promotion documents Vienna, Austria, .
    2022 Ryazanova, O., Zappa, P., & Heddenhausen, J. (2022) EGOS (European Group for Organisational Studies) Colloquium Network gains from co-affiliation with multiple organizations: Insights from academic careers Vienna, Austria, .
    2021 Ryazanova, O. & Mc Namara, P. (2021) 14th GEM&L International Workshop on Management & Language Language, organisations and networks: Multi-level exploration of faculty research performance in European business schools EM Strasbourg (online), 10/05/2021-12/05/2021.
    2021 Munro, Morag; Meyler, Robyn; Cullen, John; Cushen, Jean; Ryazanova, Olga (2021) EdTech Winter Online Conference 2021 Paradigm Shift : Reflection, Resilience and Renewal in Digital Education Promoting Student Engagement with Business Information Sources using NewsGuard and the RADAR Approach Online, 14/01/2021-15/01/2021.
    2021 Ryazanova, O., Donovan, P., Coughlan, J., Moran, G. & Chugh, R. (2021) Cornell Notes: A Key to Engaged Students in Large Undergraduate Business Classes Management Education & Development division's Writers' Workshop Academy of Management conference (online), .
    2020 Yehorova, Y. & Ryazanova, O. (2020) European Academy of Management Reviewing the literature on Industry 4.0, business model innovation and value co-creation: missing connections and directions for future research virtual, .
    2020 Ryazanova, O. & Jaskiene, J. (2020) European Academy of Management Organisational drivers of academic research productivity: Taking stock of current research and identifying directions for future study virtual, .
    2018 Ryazanova, O. and McNamara, P. (2018) Academy of Management Annual Meeting International Mobility in the Age of Managerialism: to go or not to go Chicago, USA, .
    2018 Aguinis, H., Ryazanova, O., McNamara, P., Ashkanasy, N., De Castro, J., Doh, J., Salvaj, E., and Vassolo, R (2018) Academy of Management Conference. PDW programme Visibility of Business School Research Worldwide: The Global Performance Research System. Professional Development Workshop Chicago, .
    2018 Ryazanova, O., Andreeva, T., Wang, R. (2018) International Management and Organisational Behaviour Teaching Society (IMOBTS) conference Technology-enabled assessment in large classes: learning from success and failure Maynooth, Ireland, .
    2016 Gross, N., McNamara, P., Ryazanova, O, and Connolly, N. (2016) Academy of Management Annual Conference Integrative or Autonomous? Mental Models and Experimentation Driven Business Model Innovation Anaheim, USA, .
    2016 Ryazanova O.; McNamara P.; Aguinis H. (2016) 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016 A comprehensive and multi-purpose global research performance information system Atlanta, USA, . [Full-Text]
    2016 Ryazanova, O., Pétercsák, R., Heaphy, L., Connolly, N., & Donnellan, B. (2016) AIS pre-ICIS workshop on “IoT and Smart City Challenges and Applications” - ISCA Value creation and value capture in public-private ecosystems Dublin, Ireland, .
    2016 Gross, N., McNamara, P., Connolly, N., and Ryazanova, O (2016) R&D Management Conference Why Can I not Scale? How Cognitive Frames Influence/Impair Business Model Innovation Cambridge, UK, .
    2015 Ryazanova, O. and Mc Namara, P. (2015) Academy of Management Stratification and mobility as the drivers of research in European Business Schools Vancouver, Canada, .
    2015 Ryazanova, O. and Mc Namara, P. (2015) European Academy of Management Global Stratification of the Business School Industry: Moving Towards an International Labour Market Warsaw, Poland, .
    2014 Ryazanova, O. & Mc Namara, P. (2014) Strategic Management Society Special Conference ‘Microfoundations for Strategic Management Research: Embracing Individuals Microfoundations of Knowledge Creation in Business Schools: Multi-Level Exploration of a ‘New Career Perspective’ Copenhagen, Denmark, .
    2014 Ryazanova, O. O’Donnell, P., Mc Namara, P. (2014) Strategic Management Society Special Conference ‘Microfoundations for Strategic Management Research: Embracing Individuals Microfoundations of inter-organizational Imitation Strategy. Local Social Identity’s Role in Business Model Innovation Processes Copenhagen, Denmark, .
    2014 Ryazanova, O. O’Donnell, P., Mc Namara, P (2014) Academy of Management Conference Business Model Design as a Patchwork Quilt: The Role of Local Social Identity in Imitation Choices Philadelphia, USA, .
    2014 Ryazanova O.; Namara P. (2014) 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2014 Language, socialization and networks: Knowledge creation in globalized business schools Philadelphia, USA, . [Full-Text]
    2013 Ryazanova, O. and Mc Namara, P. (2013) European Academy of Management Research Productivity of Financial Times Top 100 Business Schools’ Faculty: Impact of Academic Origin and Pro-active Choice Istanbul, Turkey, .
    2013 O’Donnell, P., Ryazanova, O., Mc Namara, P. (2013) European Group on Organization Studies Colloquium Searching High and Low: Role Selection as Part of Business Model Innovation. Sub-Theme 22: Business Models and Organizations: Uncovering the Origins of New Business Models Montreal, Canada, .

    Reviews

    Year Publication
    2022 Olga Ryazanova; (2022) Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know. [Reviews] [DOI]

    Case

    Year Publication
    2013 McNamara, P., Ryazanova, O., Collins, F. & Aherne, D. (2013) Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish Rugby Football Union: Competing Business Models. [Case] [Full-Text]
    2013 Mc Namara, P., Ryazanova, O. and Aherne, D (2013) Teaching Note. Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish Rugby Football Union: Competing Business Models. [Case] [Link] [Full-Text]
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    Professional Associations

    Description Function From / To
    Academy of Management Research Coordinator, Management Education and Development Division 01/08/2019 - 01/08/2021
    Academy of Management Secretary, Management Education and Development Division 01/08/2016 - 01/08/2018
    European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) member -
    European Academy of Management (EURAM) member -
    CYGNA (Supporting Women in Academia Network) member -

    Honors and Awards

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/01/2018 Global Forum Award Academy of Management, Management Education and Development division
    01/01/2014 Global Forum Award Academy of Management, Management Education and Development division
    01/01/2016 Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award - finalist Academy of Management
    01/08/2024 Best Reviewer Award - Academy of Management Learning & Education journal Academy of Management
    01/01/2019 Best Reviewer Award - Academy of Management Learning & Education journal Academy of Management

    Committees

    Committee Function From / To
    Departmental Athena SWAN SAT member -

    Education

    Start date Institution Qualification Subject
    University College Dublin PhD
    University College Dublin MSc
    State University - Higher School of Economics MA (equivalent)

    Editorial / Academic Reviews

    Amount Role From / To
    Academy of Management Learning and Education Member of the Editorial Board -
    British Journal of Management Member of the Editorial Board -
    ACADEMY OF MANGAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION Associate Editor 01/07/2020 - 01/08/2026
    Research Policy Reviewer -
    Studies in Higher Education Reviewer -
    Management Teaching Review Reviewer -
    Journal of World Business Reviewer -
    Journal of Vocational Behavior Reviewer -
    International Business Review Reviewer -

    Teaching Interests

    I have developed and taught courses in the areas of Marketing Management, Innovation Management and Strategy at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also developed and taught an undergraduate Placement course and a course on Research Methods at the doctoral level.

    Examples of modules:
    MN151 Business Models (1st year undergraduate course)
    MN305 Innovation Management (3rd year undergraduate course)
    MN812 Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods (PhD course)

    I co-supervise doctoral students with research topics related to management of academia:

    - Adam Keeley (doing research on careers of employees in academic institutions)
    - Poonam Singh (doing research on representation of Global South Scholars among academic award winners)


    Internal Collaborators

    Name Company Role Country
    Richa Chugh co-author Ireland
    Paola Zappa co-author Ireland
    Gillian Moran co-author Ireland
    Joseph Coughlan co-author Ireland
    Paul Donovan co-author Ireland
    Niall Connolly co-author Ireland
    Peter Mc Namara co-author; co-supervisor Ireland

    External Collaborators

    Name Role Country
    Simon Cadez, University of Ljubljana co-author Slovenia
    Prof. Herman Aguinis, George Washington University co-author United States
    Yuliya Kasperskaya Riabenko, University of Barcelona co-author Spain
    Jolanta Jaskiene, ISM University of Management and Economics co-author Lithuania