Professor Paul Spee

Professor Paul Spee is a Professor in the School of Business at The University of Queensland. His research and teaching focus on how organizations plan for the future and make strategic decisions, with an emphasis on the role of individual behavior in creating meaningful change within organizations and their connected communities. His work spans multiple sectors, including high-growth startups, emergency services, healthcare, reinsurance, telecommunications, and the petrochemical industry. Research interests include transitioning the energy sector, coordinating responses to extreme weather events, and mechanisms to support creating and scaling startups. He is also recognized for his contributions to strategic management education and research leadership within UQ.

Andreas Paul Spee is a researcher at the University of Queensland Business School, focusing on strategic planning, strategy-as-practice, routine dynamics, and strategy in pluralistic settings. His work explores how strategic processes unfold through practice, emphasizing the role of routines, artifacts, and institutional dynamics in shaping organizational behavior. Spee's research highlights the interplay between materiality, communication, and institutional legitimacy in strategic contexts. His publications examine topics such as reinsurance trading, institutional ambidexterity, and the use of strategy tools as boundary objects. His studies contribute to understanding how strategic work is enacted through multimodal practices and how organizations navigate complexity in pluralistic environments.