Journal Articles

Greenman, A, Holstein, J, Marlow, S (2025) Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 38(1-2), pp.111-134, ISSN: 0898-5626. DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2025.2524542.

Wedekind, V, Li, M, Holstein, J (2025) The future of informal apprenticeship in the artisanal pottery sector, Vocation, Technology & Education, 2530025, DOI: 10.54844/vte.2025.0952.

Li, M, Holstein, J, Wedekind, V (2025) Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice, Management Learning, 56(5), pp.987-1008, ISSN: 1350-5076. DOI: 10.1177/13505076251317965.

Li, M, Holstein, J, Wedekind, V (2023) The historical shifts of in/formality of learning within craft skills ecosystems in the United Kingdom, International Journal of Training and Development, 27(3-4), pp.405-421, ISSN: 1360-3736. DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12308.

Greenman, A and Holstein, J (2023) Dialogue and the micro-processes of founder meaning-making during growth, International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 42(2), pp.185-211, ISSN: 0266-2426. DOI: 10.1177/02662426231181551.

Holstein, J and Rantakari, A (2022) Space and the dynamic between openness and closure: open strategizing in the TV series Borgen, Organization Studies, 44(1), pp.53-75, ISSN: 0170-8406. DOI: 10.1177/01708406221106311.

Starkey, K, Holstein, J, Tempest, S (2021) Xenophobia, the unconscious, the public sphere and Brexit, European Management Review, 18(1), pp.25-35, ISSN: 1740-4754. DOI: 10.1111/emre.12446.

Holstein, J, Starkey, K, Wright, M (2016) Strategy and narrative in higher education, Strategic Organization, 16(1), pp.61-91, ISSN: 1476-1270. DOI: 10.1177/1476127016674877.

Conferences

Li, M, Holstein, J, Wedekind, V (2025) Touching the meaningfulness of work through craft: meaningful work as an affective, embodied and material practice. In 41st EGOS Colloquium July 2025: Creativity That Goes a Long Way; 41st EGOS Colloquium: Creativity That Goes a Long Way (Sub-theme 88: Craft and Emerging Forms of Organizing Imaginatively Otherwise), Athens, Greece.

Holstein, J, Greenman, A, Rantakari, A (2025) Strategizing practices of ‘hope’ and ‘fear’ for ‘nature positive’ futures. In 19th Organization Studies Summer Workshop; 19th OS Summer Workshop: The Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice: Extensions and Connections, Chania, Crete.

Holstein, J and Greenman, A (2025) Gazing into cosmic terror: ecological voicing and materializing future imaginaries. In 5th Organization Theory Winter Workshop; 5th Organization Theory Winter Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland.

Holstein, J and Rantakari, A (2024) Understanding the Interplay Between Purpose, Policy, and Organizing: A Narrative Approach. In Academy of Management, Chicago. DOI: 10.5465/amproc.2024.20240abstract.

Holstein, J and Rantakari, A (2024) Space and organizing in “Ruthless Times”: The case for the dialogic perspective. In 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan.

Holstein, J and Rantakari, A (2023) Space and gaze in the organizational production of social care. In Where Work/Life Happens: Spaces and Places in Flux, Aalto Business School, Espoo, Finland.

Holstein, J, Jalonen, K, Rantakari, A (2022) Making the familiar seems strange- crisis as carnivalization. In 13th International Process Symposium: Theme Organizing on the Precipice: Process Studies in Extreme Contexts, Rhodes, Greece.

Li, M, Holstein, J, Wedekind, V (Accepted for publication) The survival of the ceramics craft in the UK against the odds- a learning perspective. In 37th EGOS Colloquium Organizing for an Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations, and Mechanisms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Holstein, J, Rantakari, A, Edwards, G, Vaara, E, Langley, A, Wright, M (2018) What’s the Next Chapter for Strategy as Narrative. In 77th Academy of Management Conference, https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.15671symposium, Atlanta.

Holstein, J (2018) The carnival of Brexit: Destabilizing the status quo and the emerging narrative for change". In Starkey, K (ed) 7th European Theory Development Workshop in Organization and Management Theor, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Holstein, J (2018) A process perspective on strategy using Bakhtin. In 10th International Process Symposium: Theme: About Time: Temporality and History in Organization Studies, Hakidiki, Greece.

Holstein, J (2015) Strategy as an intertextual narrative-an issue of framing. In 75th meeting of the Academy of Management: Opening Governance, Vancouver.

Chapters

Vaara, E, Rantakari, A, Holstein, J (2019) Participation Research and Open Strategy. In Seidl, D, Krogh, GV, Whittington, R (ed) Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy, Cambridge University Press, pp.27-40, ISBN: 9781108347921. DOI: 10.1017/9781108347921.003.