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Dr Cinla Akinci

Director of Impact

Senior Lecturer

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 58³Ô¹Ï 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 MSc 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
  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
  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

• 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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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

• Akinci, C., 2016, World Economic Forum.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

• 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