Dr Saras Sastrowardoyo
Senior Lecturer
School of Management
College of Business and Law
Dr Saras Sastrowardoyo is a Senior Lecturer in the UniSA: Business academic unit. She holds degree qualifications in Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Business Administration and PhD in Business Management.She is responsible for the design, management and delivery of a number of courses in the postgraduate and undergraduate programs.
Saras Sastrowardoyo’s area of research interest is in strategic knowledge management to support organisational sustainability. Her PhD thesis focused on the small-world social network structure as a form of managing dynamic knowledge; essential to organisational renewal in times of change and uncertainty. This research base informs her ongoing research and teaching activities in the various disciplines and areas of organisational management at strategic, operational and project levels.
Dr Sastrowardoyo came to the university sector following more than twenty years of successful career as a professional architect; involved in the design and project management of large and complex building projects. She integrates strong practical knowledge of the business environment to the theoretical knowledge base, to emerge real-world solutions to organisational and societal issues.
Ideas creation, organisational knowledge management and innovation.
Strategic thinking and decision making for sustainable organisations and society.
Knowledge sharing and information communication systems in project management, operations and strategic management.
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Benson, J., Sandhu, S., Sastrowardoyo, S., & Scott-Young, C. (2015). Complexity in Multi-generational Organizations in BRIC nations. In Academy of Management 2015 Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. |
| 2013 | Benson, J., Sandhu, S., Sastrowardoyo, S., & Scott-Young, C. (2013). Age Diversity in the Workplace: Shedding Light on the Generation Construct. In Academy of Management 2013 Annual Meeting. Orlando, USA. |
| 2012 | Boyle, S., & Sastrowardoyo, S. (2012). Transnational education: multi-phase experiences as determinants of graduates' satisfaction. In D. Chen (Ed.), Management and education innovation: selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 International Conference on Management and Education Innovation (ICMEI 2012), May 5-6, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (pp. 133-138). Singapore: IACSIT Press. |
| 2010 | Sastrowardoyo, S. (2010). Managing organisational knowledge as strategy in managing for unknowable futures. In B. Gurd (Ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference 2010: Managing for Unknowable Futures - ANZAM. South Australia: ANZAM. |
| 2010 | Sastrowardoyo, S. (2010). Sensing and detecting change: Early access to knowledge sources for effective organizational change. In Academy of Management 2010 Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. |
| 2009 | Sastrowardoyo, S., & Metcalfe, M. (2009). Complexity in Multigenerational Organizations in BRIC nations. In Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA. |
Courses I teach
- BUSS 5074 Strategic Concepts (2024; 2025)
- BUSS 5065 Leading and Managing Organisational Change (2024; 2025)
- BUSS 5139 Project Management for Business (2024; 2025)
- Thinking Strategically (2024; 2025)
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