Dr Cinla Akinci

Director of Impact

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1754

Email

cinla.akinci@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Cinla Akinci is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Management at University of St Andrews Business School. Previously she held academic positions at the University of Surrey's Business School.

Cinla received her PhD in Management from University of Surrey. She also holds MSc in International Business Management from University of Surrey, and BA(Hons) in Business and Economics from Trent University (Canada). In 2013, she attained the Fellow status of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Cinla’s research focuses on intuition in decision making in organisational contexts. She is particularly interested in exploring uncertain decision environments. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork both with public (e.g. police and emergency services) and private organisations (e.g. global corporations) to investigate the use of intuition in strategic and operational decision making processes.

Cinla’s research has been published in leading journals including Organization Studies, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and International Journal of Management Reviews. Her research has been funded by the British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust, Carnegie Trust, and The College of Policing. 

Cinla is the Director of Impact in the Department of Management, Programme Director for MLitt Management, and is a member of the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences.

Her previous career experience includes business development in the finance sector and project management in non-governmental organisations. 

Teaching

MN4244 Behavioural Decision Making
MN4245 Leadership Development
SS5101 Being A Social Scientist

Research areas

Decision making, intuition, cognition, top management teams, organisational learning, organisational change, strategic collaboration. 

Selected publications

• Open access

  ‘A marriage of convenience’: inter-organizational learning through strategic collaboration

  Akinci, C. & Macpherson, A., 4 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Management. Early View, p. 1-14 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  On the trajectory of discrimination: a meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

  Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M., van Aert, R., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., Clemente, E., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Clark, C., Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration & Uhlmann, E., 10 Nov 2023, In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 179, 26 p., 104280.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The intuitive executive revisited

  Akinci, C. & Sadler-Smith, E., 19 Oct 2023, Developing the intuitive executive: using analytics and intuition for success. Liebowitz, J. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

  Delios, A., Clemente, E. G., Wu, T., Tan, H., Wang, Y., Gordon, M., Viganola, D., Chen, Z., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Generalizability Tests Forecasting Collaboration & Uhlmann, E. L., 26 Jul 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 30, 9 p., e2120377119.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Identifying the linguistic markers of intuition in human resource (HR) practice

  Sadler-Smith, E., Akstinaite, V. & Akinci, C., 9 Jul 2022, In: Human Resource Management Journal. 32, 3, p. 584-602

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Organizational learning from hidden improvisation

  MacPherson, A., Breslin, D. & Akinci, C., Jun 2022, In: Organization Studies. 43, 6, p. 861–883

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  ‘If something doesn’t look right, go find out why’: how intuitive decision making is accomplished in police first-response

  Akinci, C. & Sadler-Smith, E., 2 Jan 2020, In: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 29, 1, p. 78-92

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Collective intuition: implications for improved decision making and organizational learning

  Akinci, C. & Sadler-Smith, E., 12 Jul 2019, In: British Journal of Management. 30, 3, p. 558-577

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Stories of Intuition-Based Decisions: Evidence for Dual Systems of Thinking: "Leadership in the Data Era: How Innovative Leaders Balance Data Versus Intuition to Drive Effective Decisions"

  Akinci, C., 2016, World Economic Forum.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

• Understanding Knowledge and Knowing

  Tooman, T. R., Akinci, C. & Davies, H. T. O., 2016, Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations. Orr, K., Nutley, S., Russell, S., Bain, R., Hacking, B. & Moran, C. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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