Dr J. Miguel Imas

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Management
Kingston Business School
Kingston Hill

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Miguel Imas is senior lecturer of organisational-social psychology and director of the Kingston i-lab at the Faculty of Business and Social Science, Kingston University. He has hold visiting professorship at the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, The University of Chile and the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He studied both his BSc and PhD Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he remains an associate member of the psychology research lab.

Miguel Imas has lead research in organisations and communities in Africa and Latin America. His research focuses on creativity, entrepreneurial and social innovative practices that these communities/organisations enact and perform in their daily lives. He has conducted research in Europe, exploring the impact of economic downturns and crisis among Spanish, Irish and English communities. From his research work he has developed the notions of barefoot entrepreneurs, liminal entrepreneuring, necroentrepreneurship, and urbansparkZ.

Miguel Imas has supported and help to develop student driven start-up initiatives such as Jebo, part of the University of Bologna student commitment to improve their innovative and creative skills in business. He is also supportive of initiatives that examine and promote more sustainable economic practices in countries like Chile, Argentina and Zimbabwe. His work has been published in prestigious journals like Organization Studies, Gender, Work & Organization and Organization.

Qualifications

PhD Social Psychology, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
BSc Social Psychology, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

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J. Miguel Imas scholarship is driven by a strong interdisciplinary curiosity in areas such as critical feminism, entrepreneurship, creativity, social innovation and change. Key to his research work is the ability to engage with entrepreneurial and creative behaviours located at the margins of our global world. In places like Zimbabwe, Brazil or when examining the impact of the financial crisis in Europe, he has produced research that examines the kind of problems that invite individuals and their organisations to challenge the status quo and thrive under adversity, creating a path towards more sustainable and inclusive organisational practices. Currently, he is co-leading two projects one in Chile and one in South Africa, examining how women entrepreneurs' struggle for emancipation drives them creatively to find new more sustainable practices for their businesses and well-being. In collaboration with colleagues at different academic institutions around the world, he is developing new theoretical knowledge that impacts the way business is conducted. He has published in highly regarded journals such as Organization Studies, Gender, Work and Organization, and Organization, as well as journals in the Americas.

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Critical Entrepreneurship
Creativity
Social Innovation
Innovative Decision-making
Qualitative Methodologies
Organisational-social psychology
Critical Feminism

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Critical Entrepreneurship
Creativity
Organisational Change
Critical Organisation Studies

Scholarly affiliations

Minga, Chile Organisation Studies Group
Psychology Research Lab, LSE
Critical Management Studies Network

Publications

Hung out to dry: gender washing in organizations

Burke, Rebecca L. and Imas, J. Miguel, 2026, Gender, Work and Organization (33), 4 pp 1390-1404, E-pub ahead of print

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