Tammar Zilber

• Hebrew University Psychology and Amirim (Program for outstanding students, Faculty of Humanities) BA
• Hebrew University Psychology, Social Psychology Program, Organizational Studies MA
• Hebrew University Psychology, Social Psychology Program, Organizational Studies Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Psychology Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar
• Hebrew University Sociology & Anthropology Postdoctoral Fellow

Dissertation

• Ideology, practice and ambiguity in organizations: A rape crisis center as a feminist organization. Advisor Prof. Amia Lieblich. Ph.D. Awarded 4.8.1998, Summa Cum Laude.

Books

• Lieblich, A., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Zilber, T. B. (1998). Narrative research: Reading, analysis and interpretation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Books Edited

• Oliver, A.L., Zilber, T.B. and De-Shalit, A. (2013). Social leadership in Israel. Jerusalem, Israel: Magnes (In Hebrew).
• Reay, T., Zilber, T.B., Langley, A. & Tsoukas, H. (Forthcoming). Institutions and organizations: A process view. Perspectives on process organization studies, Vol. 9. Oxford University Press.

Chapters

• Zilber, T. B. (2006). "Mythologies of speed and the shaping of Israeli high-tech industry”. In P. Case, S. Lilley and T. Owens (Eds.), The Speed of Organization, pp. 147-160. Advances in Organization Studies Series, Copenhagen University Press.
• Zilber, T. B. (2008). The work of meanings in institutional processes and thinking. In: Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K., and Suddaby, R. (Eds.). Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. Pp. 151-169. Sage.
• Zilber, T.B. (2009). Institutional maintenance as narrative acts. In: Lawrence, T., Suddaby, R. & Leca, B. (Eds.). Institutional work. Pp. 205-235. Cambridge University Press.
• Lieblich, A., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Zilber, T. B. (2010). Reading, analysis and interpretation of qualitative material: Between the whole and its parts, between content and form. In: Kacen, L. and Krumer-Nevo, M. (Eds.). Qualitative Methodologies (Hebrew). Bialik Institute and Ben Gurion University press.
• Zilber, T.B. (2015). Studying organizational fields through ethnography. IN: Elsbach, K. & Kramer, R. (Eds.), The Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 86-95. (invited chapter).
• Zilber, T.B. (2017). The evolving role of meaning in theorizing institutions. In: Greenwood, R. & Lawrence, T. (Eds.). Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, revised 2nd edition. Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 418-445. (invited chapter).
• Zilber, T.B. (2018). Narrative studies of organizations: Moving towards stories as action. In: Mir, R., & Jain, S. (Eds.). Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 128-140. (invited chapter).
• Zilber, T.B. (2018). Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics. In: Gluckler, J., Suddaby, R., & Lenz, R. (Eds.). Knowledge and Institutions. Knowledge and Space, Vol.13, 179-194. Springer, Cham.
• Zilber, T.B. (Forthcoming 2019). Stories in and on organizations: A narrative approach to teaching organizational behavior. In: Dvir, N. & Gidron, A. (Eds.). Narrative Pedagogies. MOFET. In Hebrew.
• Reay, T., Zilber, T.B., Langley, A. & Tsoukas, H. (Forthcoming 2019). Institutions and Organizations: A Process View. In: Reay, T., Zilber, T.B., Langley, A. & Tsoukas, H. (Eds.) Institutions and organizations: A process view. Perspectives on process organization studies, Vol. 9. Oxford University Press.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Lieblich, A., Zilber, T., Tuval-Mashiach, R. (1995). Seekers and finders: Generalization and differentiation in life stories. Psychology, 5, 84-95 (Hebrew).
• Zilber, T. B. (2002). Institutionalization as an interplay between actions, meanings and actors: The case of a rape crisis center in Israel. Academy of Management Journal 45, 234-254. ABS Ranking:
• Zilber, T. B. (2006). The work of the symbolic in institutional processes: Translation of rational myths in Israeli high-tech. Academy of Management Journal 49, 279-301.
• Zilber, T. B. (2007). Stories and the discursive dynamics of institutional entrepreneurship: The case of Israeli high-tech after the burst of the bubble. Organization Studies 28, 1035-1054.
• Reprinted in Brown, A.D., Colville, I. & Pye, A. (2014). Making Sense of Sensemaking in Organization Studies. Organizations Studies, a virtual special issue.
• Reprinted in Dana, L.P. (Editor). 2015. Asian Entrepreneurship. Sage.
• Lieblich, A., Zilber, T. B., Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2008). Narrating human actions: The subjective experience of agency, structure, communion and serendipity. Qualitative Inquiry 14(4): 613-631.
• Zilber, T. B., Tuval-Mashiach, R. and Lieblich, A. (2008). The embedded narrative: Navigating through multiple contexts. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6): 1047-1069.
• Suddaby, R., Elsbach, K., Greenwood, R., Meyer, J. and Zilber, T.B. (2010). Organizations and their institutional environments – Bringing meaning, values and culture back in: Introduction to the Special Research Forum. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6): 1234-1240.
• Zilber, T.B. (2011). Institutional multiplicity in practice: A tale of two high-tech conferences in Israel. Organization Science, 22(6): 1539-1559.
• Zilber, T.B. (2012). The relevance of institutional theory for the study of organizational culture. Journal of Management Inquiry, 21(1): 88-93.
• Hatch, M.J. and Zilber, T.B. (2012). Conversation at the border between Organizational Culture Theory and Institutional Theory. Journal of Management Inquiry, 21(1): 94-97.
• Zilber, T.B. (2013). Institutional logics and institutional work: Should they be agreed?Research in the Sociology of Organizations, volume 39, part A, Pp. 77-96 (special issue on Institutional logics in action, edited by Lounsbury, M. & Boxenbaum, E.).
• Lawrence, T.B., Zilber, T.B. and Leca, B. (2013). Institutional work: Current research, new directions and overlooked issues. Organization Studies, 34(9): 1023-1033.
• Zilber, T.B. (2014). Beyond a single organization: Challenges and opportunities in doing field level ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3(1): 96-113. ABS Ranking: 1/4; 46 Google scholar citations.
• Zilber, T.B. (2015). Turning a disadvantage into a resource: Working at the Periphery. European Management Journal, 33: 423-430.
• Reprint in Siebert, S. (2017). Management Research: European Perspectives. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 227-244
• Zilber, T.B. (2017). A Call for a Strong Multimodal Research in Institutional Theory. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 54A: 63-84 (special issue on Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions, edited by Jancsary, D., Daudigeos, T., & Höllerer, M.).
• Zilber, T.B. (2017). How Institutional Logics Matter: A Bottom-Up Exploration. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 48A, 137-155 (Special issue on How Institutions Matter: The Micro Foundations of Institutional Impacts, edited by In: Gehman, J., Lounsbury, M. & Greenwood, R.).
• Zilber, T.B., Amis, J.M. & Mair, J. (Forthcoming 2019). Dismantling the Master's House Using the Master's Tools: Reflections on Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 59 (Special issue on The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory, Edited by In: Zilber, T.B., Amis, J.M. & Mair, J.).
• Migdal-Picker M. And Zilber, T.B. (Forthcoming 2019). The Claim for Actorhood in Institutional Work. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 58, 251-272 (Special Issue on Actorhood in Institutional Theory, Edited by Hokyu, H., Colyvas, J. & Drori, G.).
• Jakob-Sadeh, L. & Zilber, T.B. (Forthcoming 2019). Bringing 'Together': Emotions and Power in Organizational Responses to Institutional Complexity. Academy Of Management Journal.