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Professor Jane Le is an Honorary Professor in the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney Business School. She earned her PhD in Management from Aston Business School, United Kingdom, where she worked for five years before joining the University of Sydney Business School as Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, later serving as Senior Lecturer. She has held a Visiting Professor position at Sydney since 2018 and currently serves as Professor and Chair of Strategic Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany.

Her research focuses on strategy in complex environments, particularly how organizations manage competing goals across three strands: Strategy as Practice, which examines how strategy is enacted in organizations; Paradox in Organizations, addressing tensions and their management; and Organizational Research Methods, emphasizing qualitative approaches including data analysis and process research. Le has published extensively in top-tier journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Organization. Key publications include 'The social practice of coevolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change' (Academy of Management Journal, 2019, with Jarzabkowski and Balogun), 'Triggers, traps and disconnect: how governance obstacles hinder progress on grand challenges' (Academy of Management Journal, 2023, with Couture and Jarzabkowski), and 'We have to do this and that? You must be joking: constructing and responding to paradox through humor' (Organization Studies, 2017, with Jarzabkowski). With over 4,500 citations on Google Scholar, her work has profoundly influenced strategic management and organizational studies. Awards include the SO! WHAT Best Paper Award (2018) and Organization Studies Editorial Pick (2017). She serves on editorial boards of Organization Studies and Strategic Organization, and was Associate Editor of Organizational Research Methods (2020-2024). Funding includes an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on the human side of energy security, ESRC, and British Academy grants.