Associate Professor
Anna Wiewiora
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Biography
Anna Wiewiora is an Associate Professor at QUT Business School and is affiliated with the Centre for Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Business Innovation (CMBI).Anna is a research active academic who primarily conducts applied research focusing on building learning and innovation capabilities within project-based environments, and investigates this topic at individual, project and organisational levels.
Anna is currently leading three externally funded research programs:
- 2018 – 2020. Developing business and eco-system management tools to support technology diffusion and overcome organisational and behavioural barriers to change. Funding body: Collaborative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE)
- 2019 – 2020. Developing a risk management model to support new technology adoption in the Mining Industry. Funding body: CRC ORE
- 2019 – 2020. Knowing when to embrace ambiguity and when to fear it: developing the ability to manage uncertainty in project managers. Funding body: The Project Management Institute (PMI)
As a lead and co-lead CI on the number of externally funded research programs, Anna have been engaged in a range of leadership activities, including leading the recruitment of research staff and conducting formal performance evaluations; leading development of industry reports, papers, research instruments, and data collection, and presenting research findings to the Board level, at the industry forums and assemblies.
Anna led design of management tools to support diffusion and overcome behavioural barriers to innovation in mining, which contribute to solving significant problems of slow adoption of technological innovations in the mining sector.
Anna’s research on building learning capabilities in project organisations attracts attention from academia and industry and has been used by professional project management body, PMI to upskill over 20,000 of project managers and project workers. The webinar Anna delivered on Building Project-Based Learning Organisation to the PMI members (Nov 2018) is now formally used to certify project managers in that it allows project managers to earn professional development points and retain their PMI certification.
Anna’s top 8 published papers on building project-based learning capabilities been cited over 700 times making a significant contribution to the research on project learning.
Anna is fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) since 2017.
Anna is a Study Area Coordinator for Postgraduate Management Programs (BS37 and BS11), (since 2017 – ongoing). She has lead redesign of the programs, introduced several improvements to the program to help strengthen its identity, and co-led refinement of the School of Management L&T short-term strategy post COVID-19.
Anna’s research interests include:
- Organisational learning and knowledge management
- Governance of knowledge and learning in projects
- Development of soft skills for managing projects such as tolerance of ambiguity
- Paradoxical tensions in project-based setting
- Development of management tools to enhance innovation diffusion
- Longitudinal diary and case studies
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Keywords
organisational learning, project management, knowledge management, innovation, paradox, complex projects
Discipline
Business and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master in Business and Public Administration (University of Wroclaw)
Professional memberships and associations
Advisory Board Member for Association of International Project Management Officers – AIPMO
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Project management
- Organisational learning and knowledge management
- Qualitative research methods
- Organisational behaviour
Selected publications
- Wiewiora A, Smidt M, Chang A, (2019) The 'how' of multilevel learning dynamics: A systematic literature review exploring how mechanisms bridge learning between individuals, teams/projects and the organization, European Management Review, 16 (1), pp. 93-115.
- Wiewiora A, Kowalkiewic A, (2019) The role of authentic assessment in developing authentic leadership identity and competencies, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 44 (3), pp. 415-430.
- Pemsel S, Soderlund J, Wiewiora A, (2018) Contextualising capability development: configurations of knowledge governance mechanisms in project-based organizations, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 30 (10), pp. 1226-1245.
- Rezvani A, Chang A, Wiewiora A, Ashkanasy N, Jordan P, Zolin R, (2016) Manager emotional intelligence and project success: The mediating role of job satisfaction and trust, International Journal of Project Management, 34 (7), pp. 1112-1122.
- Wiewiora A, Keast R, Brown K, (2016) Opportunities and challenges in engaging citizens in the co-production of infrastructure-based public services in Australia, Public Management Review, 18 (4), pp. 483-507.
- Khosravi P, Rezvani A, Wiewiora A, (2016) The impact of technology on older adults' social isolation, Computers in Human Behavior, 63, pp. 594-603.
- Wiewiora A, Murphy G, (2015) Unpacking 'lessons learned': investigating failures and considering alternative solutions, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 13 (1), pp. 17-30.
- Pemsel S, Wiewiora A, Muller R, Aubry M, Brown K, (2014) A conceptualization of knowledge governance in project-based organizations, International Journal of Project Management, 32 (8), pp. 1411-1422.
- Wiewiora A, Murphy G, Trigunarsyah B, Brown K, (2014) Interactions between organizational culture, trustworthiness, and mechanisms for inter-project knowledge sharing, Project Management Journal, 45 (2), pp. 48-65.
- Pemsel S, Wiewiora A, (2013) Project management office a knowledge broker in project-based organisations, International Journal of Project Management, 31 (1), pp. 31-42.
QUT ePrints
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Supervision
Current supervisions
- Multidimensional framework of paradoxical thinking: a longitudinal qualitative study in an Australian financial services organisation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Newton - Innovations Driven by PMOs: From Creation to Utilisation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kevin Desouza - Learning within and across Australian Royal Commissions How do Royal Commissions learn as temporary organisations?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kevin Desouza - INVESTIGATION OF BIOFEEDBACK INTERVENTIONS IN SYMPTOM REMEDIATION OF STRESS DISORDERS IN FIREFIGHTERS
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Cameron Newton, Dr Jonnie De Lacy - Hacking human capital: how can organisations leverage information systems to drive effective innovation?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kevin Desouza - Antecedents of trust in artificial intelligence and their relevance to the adoption of AI
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Greg Hearn