Overview
After receiving an MSc in Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems from London School of Economics, Basak came to Oxford as a British Council Chevening scholar and completed her DPhil at Oxford’s Saïd Business School as an ESRC-SKOPE fellow.
Her thesis, entitled “Managing Strategic Issues over Time: Senior Managers’ Issue Sustaining Activities” presents the new concept of Strategic Issue Sustaining and identifies the activities that allow senior managers to do this.

Throughout her DPhil, she held a lectureship at Keble College and Said Business School teaching courses for Economics and Management, and Engineering, Economics and Management. On behalf of the College, she has acted as the Director of Studies.

Research interests
Basak’s main research interests are on corporate reputation and building a 'practice' perspective on strategy (www.strategy-as-practice.org). As part of a collaboration with Prof. Richard Whittington on a wider programme of related research on strategy communications, her project on corporate reputation focuses on how corporations manage their reputation through the external formal communication of their strategies. Regarding strategy as practice, her main project from within this perspective is on the Evolution of Strategy Practice in collaboration with Dr. Ludovic Cailluet and Prof. Richard Whittington. She is also a regular contributor to main strategy textbooks including Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases.

Basak is a member of the Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, European Group of Organization Studies, and British Academy of Management, acts as a regular reviewer for refereed journals, regularly takes part in chairing conference sessions, and participates in academic award committees.

Publications and Conferences

Working Papers
Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. Strategic Issue Sustaining.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. Senior Managers’ Sustaining Activities Over Time.

Whittington, R. Cauilliet, L. Yakis-Douglas, B. Four Stubborn Decades of Strategic Planning.

Whittington, R. Cauilliet, L. Yakis-Douglas, B., Mogoutov, A. A Content Analysis of Planning Adverts: 1960-2003.

Whittington, R., Yakis-Douglas, B. Strategy as a Source of Reputation: Investor Reactions to Strategy Announcements.

Conference Papers
Whittington, R., Caulliet, L., Yakis-Douglas, B. 2009. “A Longitudinal Study on Strategic Planning”, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago, USA.

Whittington, R., Cauilliet, L., Yakis-Douglas, B. 2009. “Four Stubborn Decades of Strategic Planning”, Passion for Organizing, 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2009. “Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions”. In Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. “Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases” 9th ed. – forthcoming.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2008. “Sustaining strategic issues”. Journal of Management Studies Conference, Oxford, UK.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2008. “Strategic Issue Sustaining: Concept and Activities”. Academy of Management Annual Conference, The academy goes relevant, Anaheim, USA.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2008. “How to sustain strategic issues: activities for senior managers”. Session chair. British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate, UK.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2008. “How to sustain strategic issues”. Upsetting Organizations, 24th  EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2008. “Scenarios of successful issue sustaining”. 28th Annual International Conference, Cologne, Germany.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2007. “Successful Strategic Issue Sustaining:  Practice and Outcomes for Senior Managers”. Article submitted to Strategic Management Society, The Challenges of Non-Market Influences on Market Strategies, 27th Annual International Conference, San Diego, USA.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2007. “Successful Strategic Issue Sustaining:  Practice and Outcomes for Senior Managers”. Article submitted to British Academy of Management, Management Research Education and Business Success: Is the Future as Clear as the Past?, British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick, UK.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2007. “Sustaining Strategic Issues: Five Longitudinal Cases in Human Resource Management”. Article submitted to Academy of Management, Doing Well by Doing Good, 2007 Annual Conference, Pennsylvania, USA.

Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2007. “Sustaining Strategic Issues: Practices and Skills”. Article submitted to European Group of Organization Studies, Beyond Waltz – Dances of Individuals and Organizations, 23rd EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2007. “Sustaining Strategic Issues: Five Longitudinal Cases in Human Resource Management”. Cambridge Doctoral Conference, Cambridge, UK.

 Yakis-Douglas, B. and Whittington, R. 2006. “Managing Strategic Issues over Time:  HR Directors’ Issue Sustaining Skills”. Article submitted and presented at Strategic Management Society, Strategy and governance in a world of institutional change, 26th Annual International Conference, Vienna, Austria.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2007. Chapter 5: Strategic Planning and Hypercompetition. In Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. “Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases” 7th ed. Carried out the main research in, and assisted the main authors in revising the chapter in terms of contents.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2007. Chapter 2. In Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. “Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases” 7th ed. Carried out the main research in, and assisted the main authors in revising the chapter in terms of contents.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2007. Chapter 6: IT-Based Management Systems. In Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. “Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases” 7th ed. Carried out the main research in, and assisted the main authors in revising the chapter in terms of contents.

Yakis-Douglas, B. 2007. Chapter 9: Public Sector Strategies. In Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. “Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases” 7th ed. Carried out the main research in, and assisted the main authors in revising the chapter in terms of contents.

Academic Conferences/ Workshops
Academy of Management, Chicago, USA (6-12 August 2008)

European Group of Organization Studies, Barcelona, Spain (2-4 July)

Strategic Management Society, Cologne, Germany (12-15 October 2008)

Journal of Management Studies Conference, Oxford, UK (September 2008)

British Academy of Management, Harrogate, UK (September 2008)

Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA (8-13 August 2008)

European Group of Organization Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands (10-12 July)

Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business Group Workshop (23-24 June 2008), Scholarly workshop with Andrew Pettigrew and Elaine Romanelli, Said Business School, Oxford.

Strategy-as-Practice Symposium, Aston Business School, UK (28 April 2008),

“Strategy, Practices, and Organizations: Studying Workshops and Meetings”
Strategy-as-Practice Symposium, Lancaster, UK (20-22 February 2008)

Strategic Management Society, San Diego, USA (14-16 October 2007), “The Challenges of Non-Market Influences on Market Strategies”, 27th Annual International Conference.

British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK (10-13 September 2007), “Management Research Education and Business Success: Is the Future as Clear as the Past?”, British Academy of Management Conference, 2007.

Academy of Management, Pennsylvania, USA (3-8 August 2007), “Doing Well by Doing Good”, 2007 Annual Conference.

European Group of Organization Studies, Vienna, Austria, (5-7 July), “Beyond Waltz – Dances of Individuals and Organizations” 23rd EGOS Colloquium. 

Cambridge Doctoral Conference, Cambridge, UK (19-20 April 2007)
Strategic Management Society, Vienna, Austria (29 October – 1 November 2006), “Strategy and governance in a world of institutional change”, 26th Annual International Conference.

 Personnel Directors Forum, Templeton College, University of Oxford (11 June 2005)

Strategy-as-practice workshop at Cass Business School, London (16 May 2005)

AIM workshop on “Doing research on strategy process and practice” with Ann Langley at Aston Business School, Birmingham (28-29 October 2004)

Strategy-as-practice workshop at AIM, London (21 October 2004)