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Profile

Qualifications

Chair Corporate Communications and Marketing, University of Leeds
PhD, Manchester Metropolitan
BA (Coms), Utrecht

Experience

2004-present Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
2001-2003 Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam (NL)

Research

Corporate and organisational communication, sensemaking, social constructionist approaches to management and strategy, and language and text-based research in strategy, management and organisation theory

Teaching

Currently, Dr Cornelissen teaches corporate communications on the MA Advertising and Marketing and marketing communications on the full-time MBA programme at Leeds University Business School. Previous teaching has included corporate and marketing communications modules at the undergraduate, post-graduate and executive levels.

Publications

Cornelissen, J.P. (in press), “Sensemaking under pressure: The Influence of professional roles and social accountability on the creation of sense”, Organization Science.

Cornelissen, J.P. (2011), Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and Practice. London: Sage, third edition.

Floyd, S.W., Cornelissen, J.P., Wright, M. and Delios, A. (2011), Processes and practices of strategising and organising: Review, development and the role of bridging and umbrella constructs, Journal of Management Studies.

Christensen, L.T., and Cornelissen, J.P. (2011), “Bridging corporate and organizational communication”, Management Communication Quarterly.

Cornelissen, J.P., and Clarke, J.S. (2010), “Imagining and rationalizing opportunities: Inductive reasoning, and the creation and justification of new ventures”, Academy of Management Review, 35 (4), 539-557.