Assistant Professor, Cardiff University, UK (2021 - 2024)
Assistant Professor, Newcastle University, UK (2016 - 2021)
Marketing Director, European Care Group, London, UK (2009 – 2011)
Manager, Whirlpool of India Ltd, New Delhi, India (2006 - 2008)
Assistant Manager, Hutchison Essar Telecom, Pune, India (2004 – 2006)
Publication
Toivonen, T., Idoko, O., Jha, H.K. & Harvey, S., 2023. Creative jolts: Exploring how entrepreneurs let go of
ideas during creative revision. Academy of Management Journal, 66(3), pp.829-858.
Jha, H.K. & Wharton, R., 2023. Social mobility through higher education: exploratory analysis of ethno-racial,
gender and class intersection in professional undergraduate programmes. Studies in Higher Education, 48(7),
pp.1052-1066.
Villeseche, F., Meliou, E. & Jha, H.K., 2022. Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred
perspective. Human Relations, 75(10), pp.1903-1927.
Tripathi, V.R., Jha, H.K., Popli, M., Shah, P. & Desai, G. 2021. Clinic, community and in-between: The influence
of space on real-time translation of medical expertise by frontline healthcare professionals in marginal tribal
communities. Journal of Professions and Organization. Volume 8(3), pp. 273-294.
Jha, H.K. & Jacob, D. 2020. Legitimizing a practice across fields: Microprocesses of theorization of Design
Thinking. Journal of Professions and Organization. Volume 7(2), pp.156-187.
Jha, H.K. & Beckman, C.M. 2017. A Patchwork of Identities: Emergence of Charter Schools as a New Organizational
Form, in Marc-David L. Seidel , Henrich R. Greve (eds.) Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emergence,
Volume 50. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.69 – 107
Awards & Honours
2023 Best Reviewer Award, Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) Annual Conference, Mumbai, India
2022 Finalist for That’s Interesting! award at European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Colloquium, Vienna.
2021 Runner up, OMT Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Annual Conference
2020 Nominated for Carolyn B. Dexter Award, Academy of Management Annual Conference.
2014 Ray Watson Doctoral Fellowship, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine, USA.
2014 Summer Research Fellowship, Center for Global Leadership, Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, USA.
2008 Templeton Scholarship, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK.
2001 Merit Certificate for 1st Rank in B.A. (Honours) - Sociology, University of Delhi, India
Research Interests
Organization Theory, Sociology of Work/Professions; Collective Action; Framing; Sensemaking; Media