Marianne W. Lewis

Marianne W. Lewis is an American academic and university administrator. She was a Professor of Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business of the University of Cincinnati from 1996 to 2015. She has been the dean of the Cass Business School in London, United Kingdom since 2015.

Lewis was born to Steven C. Wheelwright and Margaret Steele. Her father is an academic who served as senior associate dean at the Harvard Business School and later as president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii from 2007 to 2015.

Lewis graduated from Tusculum College in 1989. She received a master of business administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 1991. She went on to receive a PhD in Management from the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky in 1997. Her thesis was entitled Advanced Manufacturing Technology Design: A Multiparadigm Study.

Lewis became a Professor of Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business of the University of Cincinnati in 1996. She served as its associate dean until May 2015.

Lewis was a Visiting Fellow at Keele University in 2000 and a Fulbright Scholar at Cardiff University in 2014. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Future Business Journal. She is a recipient of the 2007 Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Review for her article entitled, Exploring Paradox: Toward a More Comprehensive Guide.

Lewis has served as the Dean of the Cass Business School in London since May 2015.

Lewis has children.

• Lewis, Marianne W. (October 2000). "Exploring Paradox: Toward a More Comprehensive Guide". The Academy of Management Review. 25 (4): 760–776. doi:10.5465/amr.2000.3707712. JSTOR 259204. 
• Luscher, Lotte S.; Lewis, Marianne W. (2008). "Organizational Change and Managerial Sensemaking: Working Through Paradox". Academy of Management Journal. 51 (2): 221–240. doi:10.5465/amj.2008.31767217. 
• Andriopoulos, Costas; Lewis, Marianne K. (2009). "Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity: Managing Paradoxes of Innovation". Organization Science. 20 (4): 696–717. doi:10.1287/orsc.1080.0406. 
• Andriopoulos, Costas; Lewis, Marianne W. (2010). "Managing Innovation Paradoxes: Ambidexterity Lessons from Leading Product Design Companies". Long Range Planning. 43: 104–122. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2009.08.003. 
• Gotsi, Manto; Andriopoulos, Costas; Lewis, Marianne W.; Ingram, Amy E. (2010). "Managing creatives: Paradoxical approaches to identity regulation". Human Relations. 63 (6): 781–805. doi:10.1177/0018726709342929. 
• Knapp, Joshua R.; Dalziel, Thomas; Lewis, Marianne W. (2011). "Governing Top Managers: Board Control, Social Categorization, and Their Unintended Influence on Discretionary Behaviors". Corporate Governance: An International Review. 19 (4): 295–310. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00845.x. 
• Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W. (2011). "Toward a Theory of Paradox: A Dynamic equilibrium Model of Organizing". Academy of Management Review. 36: 381–403. doi:10.5465/amr.2011.59330958. 
• Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W. (2012). "Leadership Skills for Managing Paradoxes". Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 5 (2): 227–231. doi:10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01435.x. 
• Lewis, Marianne W.; Andriopoulos, Costas; Smith, Wendy K. (2014). "Paradoxical Leadership to Enable Strategic Agility". California Management Review. 56 (3). 
• Ingram, Amy E.; Lewis, Marianne W.; Barton, Sid; Gartner, William B. (2014). "Paradoxes and Innovation in Family Firms: The Role of Paradoxical Thinking". Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 40: 161–176. doi:10.1111/etap.12113.