Ziyun’s research interests have a sociological and historical focus and draw on qualitative and ethnographic approaches. Her current research focuses on different types and practices of social value judgement (such as secrecy/transparency, gossip, meaningful work, responsible leadership) and their mechanisms of actualization (such as communication, temporality, and space) in organizations.
Prescott, R., Fan, Z, Elsahn, Z. & Mordue, T. (forthcoming). How does a public policy fail? Creative city policy and its tensional space of artist-led organizations. Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Fan, Z. & Bettin, C. (2023). Reinventingintellectual craftsmanship through book review. Management Learning, 54(4), 441-444.
Fan, Z. & Christensen, L. T. (2023). The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency. Human Relations (CABS 4), Epub ahead of print.
Liu, Y., & Fan, Z. (2023). Spatializing gossip as chaotic and multiple liminal space. Human Relations (CABS 4), 76(11), 1714-1738.
Suddaby, R., Manelli, L., Fan, Z. (2023). Corporate purpose: A social value judgement. Strategy Science, 8(2), 202-211.
Fan, Z., & Dawson, P. (2022). Gossip as evaluative sensemaking and the concealment of confidential gossip in the everyday life of organizations. Management Learning (CABS3), 53(2), 146-166.
Fan, Z., & Liu, Y. (2022). Decoding secrecy as multiple temporal processes:Co-constitution of concealment and revelation in archival stories. Human Relations (CABS 4), 75(6), 1028-1052.
Vu, M. & Fan, Z. (2022). Sounds of silence: The reflexivity,self-
Fan, Z. (2022). Bullshit jobs: A theory. Organization Studies, 43(2), 311-316.
Fan, Z., Grey, C., & Kärreman, D. (2021). Confidential gossip and organization studies. Organization Studies (CABS 4), 42(10), 1651-1664.
Fan, Z. & Grey, C. (2021). Everyday secrecy: Boundaries of confidential gossip. Culture and Organization (CABS 2), 27(3), 209-225.
Fan, Z., Costas, J. & Grey, C. (2017). Secrecy and communication: Towards aresearch agenda. Corporate Communications: An International Journal (CABS 1), 22(4), 562-566.
Örtenblad, A., Fan, Z., Peng, C., Li, B., Li, Z., Cong, X., & Zhou, J. (2013) Putting the learning organization into context: Contributions fromprevious works. In: Örtenblad, A., ed. Handbook of Research on the Learning Organization: Adaptation and context. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.35-50.
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University of York
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