Biography

Roger L. M. Dunbar is a professor of management and organizations at NYU Stern. Professor Dunbar teaches courses in managing organizations, management and organizational analysis, organization theory and research methods.

Professor Dunbar has been at Stern for more than 30 years. He is interested in how managers support organizational stability and also facilitate change. He is particularly interested in sensemaking processes in organizations and how framing processes constrain meaning and the use of narrative enables learning and adaptation.

Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Dunbar was a research fellow at the International Institute of Management, a part of the Science Center of Berlin in Germany. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland, both in New Zealand, and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He is currently a Senior Editor for Organization Studies and a member of the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Academy of Management Learning & Education.

Professor Dunbar received his Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Commerce from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He received his Doctor in Philosophy from Cornell University with a concentration in organization theory.

Research Interests

• How People Make Sense of Managerial Situations

Courses Taught

• Global Manager and Negotiator
• Management and Organizational Behavior

Academic Background

Ph.D., Business Administration, 1970
Cornell University

M. Commerce, Accounting, 1966
Otago

B. Commerce, Accounting, 1963
Otago

Awards & Appointments

Academy of Management Learning & Education	Outstanding Reviewer Award, Editorial review board	2009
National Science Foundation’s Innovation and Organization Change Program	Conference Grant award	2003
New York Festivals Multimedia Competition (“Bridging Cultures” CD - Park Li Publisher)	Global Gold Medal, Interactive Multimedia, Personal/Professional Category	1998
Journal of Management Inquiry	Best paper award	1997
	Grant, US Department of Education, Business and International Education program (with Allan Bird)	1990

Selected Publications

Roger Dunbar, Gino Cattani & Zur Shapira (2013)
Value creation and knowledge loss: The case of Cremonese stringed instruments
Organization Science (forthcoming)

Roger Dunbar. Raghu Garud & Caroline Bartel (2011)
Dealing with unusual experience: A narrative perspective on organizational learning
Organization Science, 30(4): 397-421

Roger Dunbar and Raghu Garud (2009)
Distributed knowledge process and indeterminate meaning: The case of the Columbia shuttle flight
Organization Studies 2009 (4):397-421

Roger Dunbar and Matt Statler (2009)
A historical perspective on organizational control
Organizational Control. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 16-47

Roger Dunbar and William H. Starbuck (2006)
Learning to design organizations and learning from designing them
Organization Science, March-April, 2006, 17 (2): 171-178

Roger Dunbar, Raghu Garud & Sumita Raghuram (1996)
A frame for deframing in strategic analysis
Journal of Management Inquiry (1996) 5 (1): 23-34