Dr Noelia-Sarah Reynolds
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911
Profile
Biography
I am in expert in the intersection of agency and sustainability and over the course of my career my research has included work on strategic decisions and growth as well as community spaces. I have published work in world leading journals such as Organization Studies, International Business Review and Sustainability. I work with world leading scholars across the world including Finland and the Netherlands. I am very keen for my research to have broader societal impact and I have worked with Colchester Borough Council on the future of the High Street and have been a strategic advisor on the Colchester Leisure Recovery board. I continue to advise CBC on economic matters. I have also worked with small enterprises as well as the public sector in terms of strategic thinking and sustainability agency. I am currently the Director of Education of Essex Business school and am part of the Senior Management team of EBS. I have a passion for enabling students to receive a transformative Education whatever their starting point and this is reflected in my work as Director of Education.
Qualifications
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BA (Hons) International Business Management, University of Northumbria
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MSc Marketing and Strategy, University of Warwick
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PhD, University of Warwick
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Postgraduate Award: Introduction to Academic and Professional Practice, University of Warwick
Appointments
University of Essex
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Director of Education, University of Essex (4/2020 - present)
Other academic
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Editorial Board Member, Group and Organization Management (7/2020 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Organisational change and mergers and acquisitions
Sensemaking
Sustainable organisational growth
Current research
storytelling during mergers and acquisitions
use of new technology such as blogs and webcasts during organisational change processes
Conferences and presentations
Schnurr, N; Teerikangas, S (2013) Exploring ethnographic approaches in the study of M&A. In: (Proceedings) British Academy of Management. Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2013
Paper presented at 28th EGOS Colloquium, Helsinki, Finland (Paper title: Successful designing of mergers and acquisitions: Emotions and identification of top managers during international mergers and acquisitions)
Helsinki, Finland, 2012
Paper presented at Warwick, Oxford and Cambridge Spring Doctoral Conference, April 2011, The University of Warwick, Coventry (Paper title: Emotional worlds during mergers and acquisitions)Paper presented at Warwick, Oxford and Cambridge Spring Doctoral Conference, April 2010, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge (Paper title: The emotions of change - What do stories tell us about individual emotional experiences of change?)
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2011
Schnurr, Noelia-Sarah (2011), From emotional experiences to realities - An investigation into emotions and emotional patterns in mergers and acquisitions, In; (Proceedings) British Academy of Management, Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2011
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/6/2025
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/4/2020
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 6/7/2017
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 22/2/2016
Publications
Journal articles (10)
Onkila, T., Reynolds, N-S., Koistinen, K., Mäkelä, M., Teerikangas, S., Sarja, MS. and Valkjärvi, M., (2024). Meaningfulness, satisfaction, and frustration: The importance of emotions for sustainability change agency. Business Strategy and the Environment. 33 (8), 8267-8279
Reynolds, N-S. and Lander, M., (2023). From Building and Preserving to Eroding Trust: A Multi-level Analysis. Group and Organization Management. 49 (4), 1012-1044
Reynolds, N-S. and Holt, D., (2021). Sustainable Development and Profit? - A Sensemaking Perspective on Hybrid Organisations and their Founders. Business Strategy and the Environment. 30 (4), 2147-2159
Hirvensalo, A., Teerikangas, S., Reynolds, N-S., Kalliomäki, H., Mäntysalo, R., Mattila, H. and Granqvist, K., (2021). Agency in Circular City Ecosystems—A Rationalities Perspective. Sustainability. 13 (5), 2544-2544
Bo, L., Boehm, S. and Reynolds, N-S., (2019). Organizing the environmental governance of the rare-earth industry: China’s passive revolution. Organization Studies. 40 (7), 1045-1071
Hassett, ME., Reynolds, NS. and Sandberg, B., (2018). The emotions of top managers and key persons in cross-border M & As: Evidence from a longitudinal case study. International Business Review. 27 (4), 737-754
Biehl, B. and Reynolds, NS., (2018). Chicks with Sticks: Becoming a Business School Guerilla Knitter. Organizational Aesthetics. 7 (1)
Reynolds, NS. and Teerikangas, S., (2016). The international experience in domestic mergers – Are purely domestic M&A a myth?. International Business Review. 25 (1), 42-50
Reynolds, N-S., (2015). Making sense of new technology during organisational change. New Technology, Work and Employment. 30 (2), 145-157
Stahl, GK., Angwin, DN., Very, P., Gomes, E., Weber, Y., Tarba, SY., Noorderhaven, N., Benyamini, H., Bouckenooghe, D., Chreim, S., Durand, M., Hassett, ME., Kokk, G., Mendenhall, ME., Mirc, N., Miska, C., Park, KM., Reynolds, N., Rouzies, A., Sarala, RM., Seloti, SL., Søndergaard, M. and Yildiz, HE., (2013). Sociocultural Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Unresolved Paradoxes and Directions for Future Research. Thunderbird International Business Review. 55 (4), 333-356
Book chapters (4)
Teerikangas, S., Onkila, T., Koistinen, K., Hirvensalo, A., Korsunova, A., Mäkelä, M., Sarja, M., Valkjärvi, M. and Reynolds, N-S., (2023). Toward A Typology of Circular Economy Agency. In: The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. Routledge. 493- 512
Reynolds, N-S. and Hassett, ME., (2021). The role of agency in Sustainability in M&A transactions. In: Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency. Editors: Teerikangas, S., Onkila, T., Koistinen, K. and Mäkelä, M., . Edward Elgar
Reynolds, NS. and Hassett, ME., (2021). The role of sustainability agency in mergers and acquisitions. In: Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency. 248- 259
Teerikangas, S. and Reynolds, N., (2018). Reflecting on the use of ethnographic methods in the study of mergers. In: Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions. Editors: Cooper, CL. and Finkelstein, S., . Emerald. 1- 29. 978-1-78756-136-6
Grants and funding
2025
Innovate to Elevate (I2E) project with Mid Suffolk Voluntary Organisations Forum (MSVOF) - To future proof the sustainability of the MSVOF and the Fire Station in particular.
Babergh and Mid Suffolk (Innovate to Elevate Programme)
2022
ECC Women's Safety Evaluation: Night Time Economy
Essex County Council
Simarco KTP Application - 27 months
Simarco International Limited
2021
The Meaning of Work: Employee Perceptions of Hybrid Working
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2020
What is the role of the town centre in a post-COVID world? - understanding behavioural changes post-COVID of people in Colchester town centre
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2019
Making RGH Rubber & Plastics a more efficient, productive and change-ready business
RGH Rubber & Plastics Ltd
2018
The Role of Social Capital Among Entrepreneurs in Marginalised Communities in South Africa
British Academy
Contact
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