Portrait of Mustafa Kavas

Mustafa Kavas

Hon. Research Fellow

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Management

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Postal address

Bayes Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Dr Mustafa Kavas is currently a Lecturer in Strategic Management at Sheffield University Management School. Before joining Sheffield University Management School, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, where he studied risk-sharing mechanisms to mitigate the economic consequences of pandemics. He received his PhD in Strategic Management from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, in 2019, where he was awarded the Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) Scholarship. His PhD research focuses on the dynamics of spirituality and strategy practices within family firms. His research has been published in various journals and outlets, including Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Theory, Academy of Management Proceedings, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, and Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal.

Qualifications

  1. Associate Fellowship, The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, May 2017
  2. PhD in Strategic Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, United Kingdom, Sep 2014 – Dec 2019
  3. MRes in Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, United Kingdom, Sep 2014 – Sep 2015
  4. Master of International Business, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada, Aug 2009 – Dec 2010
  5. Bachelor of Arts in International Trade, Bogazici University, Turkey, Aug 2002 – Jul 2007

Employment

  1. Lecturer in Strategic Management, Sheffield University Management School, Oct 2021 – present
  2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Full-time), Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), Dec 2019 – Sep 2021
  3. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Part-time), Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), Mar – Nov 2019
  4. Research Assistant, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), May 2018 – Feb 2019

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Turkish (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Family Businesses
  • Organization Theory
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Strategic Management

Publications

Conference paper/proceedings

  1. Kavas, M., Jarzabkowski, P. and Nigam, A. (2017). Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion on Business.

Journal articles (5)

  1. Jarzabkowski, P., Kavas, M. and Krull, E. (2021). It’s Practice. But is it Strategy? Reinvigorating strategy-as-practice by rethinking consequentiality. Organization Theory, 2(3), pp. 263178772110296–263178772110296. doi:10.1177/26317877211029665.
  2. Kavas, M., Jarzabkowski, P. and Nigam, A. (2020). Islamic Family Business: The Constitutive Role of Religion in Business. Journal of Business Ethics, 163(4), pp. 689–700. doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04384-5.
  3. Karakas, F., Sarigollu, E. and Kavas, M. (2015). Discourses of Collective Spirituality and Turkish Islamic Ethics: An Inquiry into Transcendence, Connectedness, and Virtuousness in Anatolian Tigers. Journal of Business Ethics, 129(4), pp. 811–822. doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2135-6.
  4. Karakas, F. and Kavas, M. (2009). Service‐learning 2.0 for the twenty‐first century. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 17(1), pp. 40–59. doi:10.1108/19348830910948896.
  5. Karakas, F. and Kavas, M. (2008). Creative brainstorming and integrative thinking: skills for twenty‐first century managers. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 22(2), pp. 8–11. doi:10.1108/14777280810850660.