Dr J. Miguel Imas
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Management
- Ȧ Business School
- Ȧ Hill
senior lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Dr. Miguel Imas is senior lecturer of organisational-social psychology and director of the Ȧ i-lab at the Faculty of Business and Social Science, Ȧ. He has hold visiting professorship at the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, The University of Chile and the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He studied both his BSc and PhD Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he remains an associate member of the psychology research lab. My ORCID number is: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-8086
Miguel Imas has lead research in organisations and communities in Africa and Latin America. His research focuses on creativity, entrepreneurial and social innovative practices that these communities/organisations enact and perform in their daily lives. He has conducted research in Europe, exploring the impact of economic downturns and crisis among Spanish, Irish and English communities. From his research work he has developed the notions of barefoot entrepreneurs, liminal entrepreneuring, necroentrepreneurship, and urbansparkZ.
Miguel Imas has supported and help to develop student driven start-up initiatives such as Jebo, part of the University of Bologna student commitment to improve their innovative and creative skills in business. He is also supportive of initiatives that examine and promote more sustainable economic practices in countries like Chile, Argentina and Zimbabwe. His work has been published in prestigious journals like Organization Studies, Gender, Work & Organization and Organization.
Qualifications
- PhD Social Psychology, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
- BSc Social Psychology, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
Domains
J. Miguel Imas has lectured for more than 10 years, lecturing on organisational change, creativity and leadership in the MBA, MSc. Occupational/Business Psychology and MSc. International Business Management. He has also contributed to the PhD methodology programme where he lectures on research paradigms and critical methodological approaches to organisation.
Adopting a pedagogy based on the work of distinguished scholars such as Noam Chomsky and Richard Feynman as well as the inspiring work of educationalist Sir Ken Robinson, he has contributed to develop students capacity for critical thinking, creativity and original thought in order to address difficult organisational and societal issues link to his subjects of expertise.
He has delivered lectures at prestigious Universities in South America and Europe. He has been visiting professor at the University of Bologna, Campus Buenos Aires, the University of Chile, and the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil. Currently, he is visiting professor at Toulouse Business School.
Qualifications
- Creativity
- Critical Entrepreneurship
- Social Innovation
- Leadership
- Critical Approaches to Organisation Studies
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Organisational Change
- Organisational Behaviour
Courses taught
J. Miguel Imas scholarship is driven by a strong interdisciplinary curiosity in areas such as critical feminism, entrepreneurship, creativity, social innovation and change. Key to his research work is the ability to engage with entrepreneurial and creative behaviours located at the margins of our global world. In places like Zimbabwe, Brazil or when examining the impact of the financial crisis in Europe, he has produced research that examines the kind of problems that invite individuals and their organisations to challenge the status quo and thrive under adversity, creating a path towards more sustainable and inclusive organisational practices. Currently, he is co-leading two projects one in Chile and one in South Africa, examining how women entrepreneurs' struggle for emancipation drives them creatively to find new more sustainable practices for their businesses and well-being. In collaboration with colleagues at different academic institutions around the world, he is developing new theoretical knowledge that impacts the way business is conducted. He has published in highly regarded journals such as Organization Studies, Gender, Work and Organization, and Organization, as well as journals in the Americas.
Qualifications
- Critical Entrepreneurship
- Creativity
- Social Innovation
- Innovative Decision-making
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Organisational-social psychology
- Critical Feminism
Specialisms
- Critical Entrepreneurship
- Creativity
- Organisational Change
- Critical Organisation Studies
Scholarly affiliations
- Minga, Chile Organisation Studies Group
- Psychology Research Lab, LSE
- Critical Management Studies Network
Publications
Precarious spaces : the arts, social and organisational change
(2016). Bristol, U.K.: (Intellect)
Navigating the labour market : women job seekers’ mobilisation of a postfeminist sensibility
Abrams, Ruth, Brewis, Deborah and Imas, Miguel, 2024, Work, Employment and Society
Supporting sustainability within the Sail Cargo Alliance Ecosystem
Humphreys, Patrick and Imas, Miguel, 2024, Journal of Decision Systems
A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research : expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
Al-Dajani, Haya, Bang, Nupur Pavan, Basco, Rodrigo, Calabrò, Andrea, Cheng, Jeremy Chi Yeung, Clinton, Eric, Daspit, Joshua J., De Massis, Alfredo, Discua Cruz, Allan, Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia, Gartner, William B., Germain, Olivier, Gherardi, Silvia, Helin, Jenny, Imas, Miguel, Jack, Sarah, McAdam, Maura, Radu-Lefebvre, Miruna, Rovelli, Paola, Tillmar, Malin, Torchia, Mariateresa, Verduijn, Karen and Welter, Friederike, 2023
Youth, organization and strategies of resistance against job insecurity
Aguilera, Guillermo Rivera, Eltit, Isidora De la Barra, Castillo, Cristian Nova, López-Concha, Romina and Imas, Jose Miguel, 2023, Innovate (33), 90, pp 111447
A postcolonial and pan‐African feminist reading of 'Zimbabwean women entrepreneurs'
Imas, J. Miguel and Garcia‐Lorenzo, Lucia, 2022
Dissensual leadership : rethinking democratic leadership with Jacques Rancière
Barthold, Charles, Checchi, Marco, Imas, Miguel and Smolovic Jones, Owain, 2022, Organization (29), 4, pp 673-691
Decision support for social innovation enabling sustainable development
Humphreys, Patrick and Imas, Miguel, 2022, Journal of Decision Systems
Jóvenes, multitud y estallido social en Chile [Youth, multitudes and social upheaval in Chile]
Rivera-Aguilera, Guillermo, Imas, Miguel and Jimenez-Díaz, Luis, 2021, Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud (19), 2
Anthropocene and "development" : intertwined trajectories since the beginning of the Great Acceleration = Antropoceno e "desenvolvimento" : trajetórias entrelaçadas desde o começo da Grande Aceleração
Figueiredo, Marina Dantas de, Marquesan, Fábio Freitas Schilling and Imas, José Miguel, 2020, Revista de Administração Contemporâbea = Journal of Contemporary Administration (24), 5, pp 400-413
Un(der)employed youth : from precariousness to resilience = Juventud sub(des)empleade : De lo precario a la resiliencia
Weston, Alia, Imas, J. Miguel, Manning, Jen, Donnelly, Paul and Ngwerume, Kudzayi, 2019, Psicoperspectivas. Individuo y Sociedad (18), 3
Liminal entrepreneuring : the creative practices of nascent necessity entrepreneurs
Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia, Donnelly, Paul, Sell-Trujillo, Lucia and Imas, J. Miguel, 2018, Organization Studies (39), 2-3, pp 373-395
The curious organisational world of imagination, art and the precariat: imagining a friend
Imas, J. Miguel, 2012, Revista Electrônica de Gestão Organizacional (10), 3, pp 436-444
Barefoot entrepreneurs
Imas, J Miguel, Wilson, Nick and Weston, Alia, 2012, Organization (19), 5, pp 563-585
From Harare to Rio de Janeiro: Kukiya-Favela organization of the excluded
Imas, J. Miguel and Weston, Alia, 2012, Organization (19), 2, pp 205-227
Favela is painting: an UrbansparkZ/art installation of social commitment and organisational change
Kosmala, Katarzyna and Imas, J. Miguel, 2012, Cadernos EBAPE.BR (10), 2, pp 466-469
Narrating a story of Buenos Aires' Fabricas Recuperadas
Kosmala, Katarzyna and Imas, Miguel, 2012, International Journal of Management and Business (3), 1, pp 103-114
Pedestrian utterances on space/less green awareness: visualizing the process
Kosmala, Katarzyna and Imas, J. Miguel, 2010, Teaching Artist Journal (9), 1, pp 35-46
Postcard from South America: experiencing organisation at the end of the world
Imas, J. Miguel, 2006, Critical Perspectives on International Business (2), 1, pp 58-64
Rational darkness: voicing the unheard in the modern management discourse of Chile
Imas, J.M., 2005, (27), 1, pp 111-133
'Border struggle' : invisible [hi]story of the 'other' in management/organization studies
Imas, J. Miguel (2023). In: Pal, Mahuya, (eds.), Cruz, Joëlle, (eds.) and Munshi, Debashish, (eds.), Organizing at the margins : theorizing organizations of struggle in the global south. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 135-153
Creativity : transformation of adversity
Weston, Alia and Imas, J. Miguel (2018). In: Martin, Lee, (eds.) and Wilson, Nick, (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of creativity at work. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 287-307
Resisting colonization in business and management studies : from postcolonialism to decolonization
Weston, Alia and Imas, J. Miguel (2018). In: Cassell, Catherine, (eds.), Cunliffe, Ann L., (eds.) and Grandy, Gina, (eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative business and management research methods. London, U.K.: Sage Publications Ltd, pp 119-135
Organspark7 : communities of art-space, imagination and resistance
Imas, Miguel and Weston, Alia (2016). In: Kosmala, Katarzyna, (eds.) and Imas, Miguel, (eds.), Precarious spaces : the arts, social and organisational change. Bristol, U.K.: Intellect, pp 131-152
Why precarious spaces?
Kosmala, Katarzyna and Imas, Miguel (2016). In: Kosmala, Katarzyna, (eds.) and Imas, Miguel, (eds.), Precarious spaces: the arts, social and organisational change. Bristol, U.K.: Intellect, pp 3-13
Transgressive knowledge creation in entrepreneurship
Blackman, Deborah and Imas, Miguel (2011). In: Hindle, Kevin, (eds.) and Klyver, Kim, (eds.), Handbook of research on new venture creation. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 99-118
'Dirty management': the legacy of Chile and Argentina
Imas, Miguel (2010). In: Guedes, Ana, (eds.) and Faria, Alex, (eds.), International management and international relations: a critical perspective from Latin America. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 185-200
Les Misérables, deuxième partie, insurrection and resistance at the heart of entrepreneurship
Imas, J. Miguel, Donnelly, Paul, Sell, Lucia, Daskalaki, Maria and Garcia, Lucia(2013). In: The 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies (CMS): Extending the Limits of Neo-Liberal Capitalism, 10-12 Jul 2013 :Manchester, U.K.
Kosmala, Katarzyna and Imas, Miguel(2009). In: 2009 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, 7-11 Aug 2009 :Chicago, U.S.
Who am I to say? The story of Marcus Elron's Exxon and the Tabaco community of Columbia
Imas, J.M., Lowe, S and Daskalaki, Maria(2005). In: 15th Annual Conference of sc’MOI: Manufacturing Identity(ies), 7 - 9 April 2005 :Philadelphia