Current
Caroline Gatrell –General Editor 2021 - present, Associate Editor 2019 – 2020
I am Professor of Organization Studies at University of Liverpool Management School where I am Associate Dean, Research. Previously, I was employed at Lancaster University. My research centres on work, family and health, which I explore from a socio-cultural perspective, examining how working parents (both mothers and fathers) manage boundaries between employment and family lives. In so doing I explore interconnections between gender, bodies and work. Regarding mothers, I devised the notion ‘Maternal Body Work’, which articulates how women experience combining pregnancy and new maternity with paid work. I further developed the concept ‘Pregnant Presenteeism’ to describe the pressures experienced by pregnant employees who work through ill health. My present focus has been on the topic of paternal employment and the work-family interface, having gained a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2018 – 2019.
My work is published in management and social science journals including: Organization Studies; Academy of Management Perspectives; Human Relations; British Journal of Management; Gender, Work and Organization; Management Learning; Social Science and Medicine; International Journal of Management Reviews; The Sociological Review; and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
My journal roles have included Co-Editor in Chief, International Journal of Management Reviews (Jan 2014 – December 2019) and Associate Editor, Gender, Work and Organization (2013 – 2019).
I am a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
I am past Chair of NARTI (Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative) which reflects my core interests in capacity building among research students and early career scholars.
Corinne Post – General Editor 2023
Corinne Post is the Fred J. Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership and Professor of Management and Operations at Villanova School of Business. Her research addresses questions related to diversity and diversity management, particularly around: diversity as enabler or impediment to team and organizational performance; mechanisms underlying individual differences in career trajectories and outcomes; and diversity on boards, in top management teams, and in leadership roles.
Professor Post’s work is published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. She was Division Chair, Program Chair, and Professional Development Workshops Program Chair of the Careers division of the Academy of Management and Executive team member of the Academy of Management Gender & Diversity in Organizations (now Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) division, and co-editor of a published book on diversity. Since 2022, she is a Forbes.com contributor.
Professor Post holds a Ph.D. in Organization Management from Rutgers University, Rutgers Business School. She is also a visiting faculty at IMD Business School. Prior to joining academia, she was an IT analyst and HR specialist for Accenture.
Christopher Wickert – General Editor 2023 - Present, Associate Editor 2019 - 2022
Christopher Wickert is an Associate Professor in Ethics & Sustainability at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), The Netherlands, Research Director of the Department of Management & Organization at VU’s School of Business and Economics and Director of the VU Business & Society Knowledge Hub (www.business-society.org). His primary research interests are in the broader role of business in society, sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and various strands of organizational theory, zooming in on questions such as how and by whom CSR is organized in globally integrated business firms; and issues of substantive vs. symbolic implementation of CSR. Christopher has published widely on that topic in journals such as Academy of Management Discoveries, Business & Society, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization & Environment and Organization Studies. His latest book (Wickert & Risi, 2019: Corporate Social Responsibility (Elements in Business Strategy), Cambridge University Press) provides an authorative and critical examination of contemporary approaches to CSR. He holds a Ph.D. in management from University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Paolo Aversa - Associate Editor 2023- present
Paolo Aversa is Professor of Strategy at Kings College London, UK. He holds visiting and honorary positions in various institutions, among which The Jonas Persson Visiting Professor at Stockholm School of Economics – Center for Sports and Business. His research interests relate to innovation and the evolution of industries and ecosystems. He usually focuses on technology-driven settings to explore phenomena such as radical innovations, digital transformation, and business models, which he investigates with both qualitative and quantitative methods. He is particularly interested in historical approaches. His explanations often unpack intangible microfoundations, such as cognition, emotions, and socially constructed processes. He is interested in unusual empirical setting. He is considered one of the leading academic experts in the Formula 1 and motorsport industry, and one of the major experts in the use of sports data to advance management theory. He has co-edited the Special Issue on “Exploring the Modern Organizational Context Through the Lens of Sports” at Academy of Management Discoveries. His works have been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Research Policy – among others. He serves as officer and Communications Director for STR – Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management.
He holds a PhD in management from the University of Bologna, and he worked as Post-Doc at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Marie-Curie Fellow at Bayes Business School.
Mirko Benischke - Associate Editor 2023- present
I am an Associate Professor of Global Strategy in the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. I hold a PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. My research focuses on three main themes: (1) strategic decision-making of senior executives (CEOs, top management teams, and Board of Directors), (2) multinational corporations’ internationalization strategies, and (3) strategic responses to climate change. In my research, I primarily draw on behavioral decision-making and institutional theories. My research has been awarded the prestigious Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business and has been accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, the Academy of Management Perspectives, Human Resource Management (US), Strategic Organization, and International Business Review. My research has also been covered in the Harvard Business Review.
Brian Boyd - Associate Editor 2019 - present
Brian Boyd is the Bilby Chair Professor at the W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University. He has previously served as regular or visiting faculty at a number of institutions, including Bocconi University, University of Western Australia, City University of Hong Kong, and Arizona State. He has previously served as Associate or Guest editor at a number of outlets, including Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods. His research interests include strategic leadership and research methods.
Beatrice D'Ippolito - Associate Editor 2023- present
Beatrice D’Ippolito is Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at the School for Business and Society, University of York, UK. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of mechanisms of knowledge creation and diffusion that connect the micro level of firm dynamics with the meso level of industry evolution. She conducts extensive qualitative and archival research within organisations of small to large sizes, spanning different empirical domains including, but not limited to: design as a driver for innovation, inter-organisational collaborations as vehicles to knowledge creation, and the strategic opportunities and challenges attached to the advent of digital technologies. Her research appeared in various outlets, including Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Technovation, International Journal of Management Reviews, Creativity and Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Prof D’Ippolito also sits on the editorial advisory boards of Research Policy and Industry and Innovation.
Elena Dalpiaz - Associate Editor 2022– present
Elena Dalpiaz is Associate Professor of Strategy at Imperial College Business School (London). Her research interest lies at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship, and focuses on how mature and new organizations draw upon cultural resources (e.g., narratives, categories, institutional logics, traditions, and other symbolic elements) to achieve various strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial outcomes. Her research has been published in leading management journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management, and Organization Science.
Serge Da Motta Veiga - Associate Editor 2023- present
Serge da Motta Veiga is Professor of Human Resource Management at NEOMA Business School, France. Prior to joining NEOMA, he worked at EDHEC, American University and Lehigh University. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior from the University of Missouri, and his license in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. His research interests revolve around job search, recruitment, and career and talent management more broadly speaking. Specifically, he is interested in examining dynamic factors in issues surrounding employment, career management and talent management. He has published his work in leading journals including Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Stav Fainshmidt– Associate Editor 2022– present
Stav Fainshmidt is Associate Professor of International Business at Florida International University, USA. His research focuses on the institutional and governance context surrounding firms, the ways in which firms develop and deploy dynamic capabilities, and methods. His research has been published in leading management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal.
Johann Fortwengel– Associate Editor 2022 – present
Johann Fortwengel is Reader in International Management at King’s Business School, King’s College London. He holds a doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin, and he has held visiting positions at the University of South Carolina and the University of Michigan. His research and teaching expertise is situated at the intersection of international business, organization theory, and strategy. In his research, Johann studies change processes at the level of organizations, inter-organizational networks, professions, and institutions. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization.
Hannes Leroy – Associate Editor 2021 – present
Hannes Leroy is an Associate Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Distinguished Research Professor at Exeter Business School. Before joining RSM, he worked at Cornell University. He obtained his PhD in applied economics from the University of Leuven and has a Master in Psychology from Ghent University. He has a special interest and expertise in leadership and how to develop it and serves as the academic director of the Erasmus Center for Leadership. His work has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, and Academy of Management Discoveries.
Kristina Potocnik– Associate Editor 2021 – present
Kristina Potočnik, PhD (University of Valencia) is a Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her current research mainly explores how individuals and teams perform and innovate when working under pressure. Kristina is also interested in exploring factors associated with healthy aging at work and in retirement. She has published on these topics in journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, British Journal of Management and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She has served as an Associate Editor at the European Management Journal and International Journal of Selection and Assessment.
Shameen Prashantham– Associate Editor 2020– present
Dr Shameen Prashantham is a Professor of International Business & Strategy at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
His research focuses on how new ventures and large multinational corporations partner with each other, a phenomenon he refers to as “dancing with gorillas”, as well as international entrepreneurship and strategy practices.
Going forward, he is developing a new research agenda in which he aims to connect his “dancing with gorillas” research about non-traditional allies such as large and small organizations working together with the agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
He has published numerous articles in academic journal such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Business Venturing. He has written two books (both published by Routledge, London) covering the areas of international business, entrepreneurship and strategy.
A winner of the 2019 CEIBS Research Excellence Award, Dr Prashantham holds a PhD from Strathclyde University in Scotland, UK where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow. Prior to CEIBS, he was a faculty member at the University of Glasgow and the University of Nottingham’s China campus.
His research focuses on how new ventures and large multinational corporations partner with each other, a phenomenon he refers to as “dancing with gorillas”, as well as international entrepreneurship and strategy practices.
Going forward, he is developing a new research agenda in which he aims to connect his “dancing with gorillas” research about non-traditional allies such as large and small organizations working together with the agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
He has published numerous articles in academic journal such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Business Venturing. He has written two books (both published by Routledge, London) covering the areas of international business, entrepreneurship and strategy.
A winner of the 2019 CEIBS Research Excellence Award, Dr Prashantham holds a PhD from Strathclyde University in Scotland, UK where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow. Prior to CEIBS, he was a faculty member at the University of Glasgow and the University of Nottingham’s China campus.
Garima Sharma – Associate Editor 2023 – present
Garima Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Kogod School of Business, American University. Her research focuses on sustainability, social entrepreneurship and the related tensions of purpose and profits. She is also interested in understanding how research impacts practice, and the topics of rigor–relevance and knowledge cocreation. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and Journal of Management Studies, among others.
Stone Shi – Associate Editor 2018 – present
Professor Weilei (Stone) Shi is a Professor of Strategy at Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York. Before he entered into the academy, Stone works for Roland Berger Strategy Consultancy–a top notch global strategy consulting firm, in its Shanghai (Great China) office. During his consulting career, Stone has steered projects in retailing, automobile, and machine cutting tool industries. He is specialized in foreign firms’ market entry strategy, M&A and strategic alliance, post M&A integration, organizational restructure, competitive analysis between domestic and foreign firms in China. His research centers on the interaction between strategy and international management. Specifically, Stone is interested in examining M&As and alliances from both temporal and network perspectives. His papers have been published in top tied journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Perspective, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has been awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award in the Academy from 2005 to 2007. He is currently the Guest Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspective, Global Strategy Journal, Long Range Planning, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. His research also gains significant exposure in China. He has frequently contributed articles in CEO & CIO, CEIBS Review, Economic Highlights, Global, and Contemporary Economic Research.
Yuliya Snihur – Associate Editor 2022 - Present
Yuliya is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School. Her research lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and organization theory. She is interested in how entrepreneurial leaders design innovative and high-performing business models in both new and established firms when facing technological change, disruptions, and evolving ecosystems. Yuliya has published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal among others. She is currently co-editing special issues on Social Evaluations in Journal of Management Studies and on Hype and Entrepreneurship in Journal of Business Venturing.
Former
Allen Amason – Associate Editor 2010 – 2013
Professor Allen Amason is Dean of the College of Business Administration and Professor of Strategic Management at Georgia Southern University.
Professor Amason’s research focus is on Strategic Decision Making and Top Management Team Processes. Amongst his many publications, he is author of Strategic Management: From Theory to Practice (Routledge, 2011). Professor Amason has also served as Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Management, as well as on the boards of Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice Journal.
As a consultant, Professor Amason has worked with Exide Technologies, Primewest Energy, Rosetta Marketing, Johnson & Johnson and more. His is on the boards of on the boards of Georgia Oak Partners and the Russian Foundation for Population Health & Recovery. Professor Amason is also an award winning executive educator, having received Terry College MBA Teacher of the Year Award in 2001, 2003, and 2005, and Teacher of the Year in 2006.
Don Bergh – Associate Editor 2011 – 2013
Professor Don Bergh is the Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration and Professor of Management at the University of Denver. He has previously taught at a number of institutions, including Cornell University, Purdue University and was chair of management at University College Dublin.
Aside from his time at the Journal of Management Studies, Professor Bergh has also served as Associate Editor at Academy of Management Journal and Organizational Research Method. Professor Bergh has also contributed to the academic community through his roles on the Academy of Management’s Ethics Education Committee, the AoM Newman Award Committee (Best Dissertation Competition), the BPS Division’s Awards Committee, as a representative-at-large of the SMS Corporate Strategy and Governance Interest Group, and as the inaugural chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group.
He is co-editor of the series, Research Methodology in Strategy and Management (With David J. Ketchen; Emerald), which is now in its 10th volume.
Garry Bruton – General Editor 2014 - 2015
Professor Garry Bruton is Professor of Entrepreneurship and the holder of the Fehmi Zeko, Jr. Faculty Fellowship at Texas Christian University.
Professor Bruton’s research focuses on entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and he has published more than 75 articles in leading management journals. He has also co-authored a number of textbooks, including Small Business Management (with Charles Bamford; McGraw-Hill, 2005), Technology And Innovation Management (with Margaret White; Cengage, 2005), and International Management (with David Ahlstrom; Cengage, 2010). He is an Associate Editor at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Professor Bruton’s work has focussed particularly on the Chinese economy, and he has served as visiting professor at Sun Yat Sen University, Tonji University and Nankai University in China. He was also a founder of the entrepreneurship program at TCU, which has been ranked in the top 20 in the US (US News & World Report 2009).
Professor Bruton has previously served as President of the Asia Academy of Management. He was the first holder of the Hall Chair in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets offered by the Fullbright Foundation (2005).
Timothy Clark – General Editor 2006 – 2007, Editor 2000 – 2006
Tim Clark is Professor of Organisation at Durham Business School and Faculty Pro-Vice Chancellor (Social Sciences and Health) at the University of Durham. He is a former Visiting Professor at the Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University.
Professor Clark’s research interests include the Management Consultancy Industry, and more recently, leadership oratory and impression management in followers. He is also a member of the Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture at Durham University. Professor Clark’s authored output includes books such as Management Speak: Why We Listen To What Management Gurus Tell Us (with David Greatbatch; Routledge, 2005), Management Consultancy: Boundaries and Knowledge in Action (with Andrew Sturdy, Karen Handley and Robin Fincham; Oxford University Press, 2010) and Demystifying Business Celebrity (with Eric Guthey and Brad Jackson; Routledge, 2009).
During Professor Clark’s tenure, in partnership with Professor Mike Wright, the Journal of Management Studies underwent a great many changes. During this period the Mission Statement of the journal was clarified, with an additional emphasis on rigour and ethics. With an additional focus on responsiveness and an expanded developmental approach, the profile of JMS increased during this time. This period also saw the expansion of the Editorial team and the recruitment of our first Associate Editor, Steve Floyd, who was also our first North American Editor. The high profile and strong international links forged by the Professors was of great benefit to the journal. Professor Clark and Professor Wright’s leadership at JMS is often credited with creating much of the international character of JMS, as well as the reputation for prompt, friendly and professional service that continues today.
Former President of the British Academy of Management (2011), Professor Clark currently sits on the Editorial board of Journal of Management Inquiry and the Council of SAMS, amongst his other duties. He became a Founding Fellow of the Leadership Trust in 2010.
Andrew Corbett – General Editor 2011 – 2014, Associate Editor 2008 – 2011
Andrew Corbett is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Faculty Director for John E. & Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator at Babson College.
Professor Corbett’s research examines behavioral aspects of the entrepreneurial process and the role of individuals within strategic renewal and innovations efforts within organizations. Amongst his many published works, he is co-editor of the Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth book series (with Jerome A. Katz; Emerald Books, vol. 17 2015).
As Director of the Butler Venture Accelerator, Professor Corbett supervises an entrepreneurial learning program that includes mentoring, workshops and strategic guidance for the startup ventures of students.
As an educator Professor Corbett was honoured by the Academy of Management, as a recipient of McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award. He is the co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium of the Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management.
Joep Cornelissen – General Editor 2008 – 2012, Associate Editor 2006 – 2007
Professor Joep Cornelissen is Professor of Corporate Communication and Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). He has previously served as Professor of Corporate Communication and Organization Theory at VU University Amsterdam, as well as Chair of Corporate Communications and Marketing at University of Leeds. He has also been a visiting professor at HEC Paris, France and IE Business School in Madrid and the University of Southern Denmark.
Professor Cornelissen’s interests include corporate and organisational communication, sensemaking, social constructionist approaches to management and strategy, and framing and narration in strategic change, entrepreneurial and innovation contexts. His is the author of Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and Practice (Sage, fourth edition 2014).
He currently sits on the council of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
Andrew Delios – General Editor 2009 – 2013, Associate Editor 2006 – 2009
Professor Andrew Delios is Professor in the Department of Strategy & Policy, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He has previously taught in institutions across the world, including the University of Toronto, Canada, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and at the Swedish School of Economics in Finland.
Professor Delios’s research examines strategy, governance and global competition issues in emerging economies, strategies of Japanese multinational corporations, and the geographic and product growth strategies of public-listed companies in China. He is an author or co-author of six books, and more than 80 published articles and book chapters. Professor Delios’s work has won awards from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and the Academy of International Business.
As well as serving as General Editor at the Journal of Management Studies, he was also Editor-in-Chief at Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and area editor at Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
He is also an owner and director of Belgarath Investments Limited, an international franchisee and franchisor, working with brands such as Subway and Sarpino’s Pizza.
From 2011-2013, Professor Delios served as the President of the Asia Academy of Management. As of 2013, he is a fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Charles Dhanaraj – Associate Editor 2013 – 2014
Professor Charles Dhanaraj is Professor of Strategy and Global Leadership at IMD Business School in Switzerland. He has previously held visiting or departmental positions at institutions across the world, including Indiana University (USA), Copenhagan Business School (Denmark), FDC (Brazil), Western University (Canada), and Grenoble School of Management (France). He is the former Head of the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Professor Dhanaraj is Vice President Program-Elect (and will take up the Program Chair in 2016) on the Academy of International Business Executive Board. He is on the GSJ and SMJ Editorial Review Boards at the Strategic Management Society. In 2008, he co-chaired the SMS India Conference held at Hyderabad, India.
Professor Dhanaraj’s research focuses on collaborations in cross-border alliances, and emerging markets – specifically leadership and strategy in global enterprise and strategy for innovation for both multinationals and local firms. In 2015 he won first prize, alongside Fernanda Ribeiro and Eva Stal, in the John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition.
Penny Dick – Senior Associate Editor 2016 - 2019, Associate Editor 2013 – 2015
Professor Penny Dick is Professor of Occupational Psychology at the University of Sheffield.
Professor Dick’s research interests stem from her previous career as a chartered occupational psychologist. Her work focusses on critical management, specifically how the relationships between social structures and individuals perpetuate inequalities in employment and careers, and the role of gender and class. Identity, power and resistance are key themes in her research, particularly regarding her studies into police work. This research has included her role as principal investigator for an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) funded project examining flexible working in the UK police force.
More recently, Professor Dick has focussed on the role of language, using a discursive approach to examine the production of accounts of experience, their context, and what such accounts can tell us about power.
Professor Dick has previously served as editor for Personnel Review and Human Resource Management Journal.
Jonathan Doh is Associate Dean of Research, Rammrath Chair in International Business, Co-Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Professor of Management and Operations at the Villanova School of Business. He teaches and does research at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate responsibility and sustainability. Jonathan is author or co-author of more than 85 refereed articles, 35 chapters, a dozen teaching cases and simulations, and eight books. His articles have appeared in AMR, AMP, AMLE, BEQ, JIBS, JOM, JMS, MISQ, OS, and SMJ. His books include Globalization and NGOs (with H. Teegen, Praeger, 2003), Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business (with S. Stumpf, Elgar, 2005), Multinationals and Development (with A. Rugman, Yale University Press, 2007), NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (with M. Yaziji, Cambridge University Press, 2009), Aligning for Advantage: Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas (with T. Lawton and T. Rajwani, Oxford University Press, 2014), and International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior (with F. Luthans, McGraw-Hill/Irwin), the best-selling international management text, which is in its 10th edition.
Jonathan has presented more than 100 papers and organized or chaired more than 55 panels at AOM, AIB, and SMS and has served these organizations as track chair, member or chair of best book, best paper, and best dissertation committees; and organizer and participant in doctoral and junior faculty consortia. He was elected in 2012 to the AOM Organizational and Natural Environment Division (ONE) executive committee, culminating in his service as Chair of the division in 2015/2016. He has been Associate or Consulting Editor of numerous journals and served as Editor- in-Chief of Journal of World Business, from 2014-2017 and Co-Editor-in-Chief in 2018. He was ranked among the top 20 most prolific international business scholars in the world for the period 2001-2009 (Lahiri & Kumar, 2012). In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of International Business. His cases, simulations, and articles are used at leading business schools and have won several awards. He has consulted for many public and private organizations and is a frequent commentator in print, electronic and broadcast media. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic and international management from George Washington University.
Dries Faems – General Editor 2014 – 2018, Associate Editor 2012 – 2013
Professor Dries Faems is a Full Professor Innovation & Organization at the University of Groningen and Affiliated Researcher at the Research Centre of Organisation Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also a Visiting Professor at the LUISS Business School.
Igor Filatotchev – General Editor 2016 – 2019, Associate Editor 2014-2015
Professor Igor Filatotchev is Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London. He is also Associated Dean for Research and Enterprise, and Director of the Centre for Research on Corporate Governance. He has previously taught at Nottingham University Business School, Bradford University School of Management, King’s College and Birkbeck College (University of London).
Professor Filatotchev’s research focuses on corporate governance effects on entrepreneurship development, strategic decisions and organisational change, and he has published widely in the fields of corporate governance and strategy. As Director of the Centre for Research on Corporate Governance, Professor Filatotchev also leads the centre’s mission to carry out multi-disciplinary investigations into Corporate Governance Issues at National, European and Global levels.
Professor Filatotchev served for seven years as Associate Editor (2007 – 2014) at Corporate Governance International Review. He currently serves as Co-Editor at the Journal of Management and Governance.
Steven Floyd – General Editor 2006 – 2010, Editor 2004 – 2006
Professor Steven Floyd is an endowed Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He has previously held the position of endowed professor at the University of Virginia, Chaired Professor and Director at the Institute of Management at the University of St. Gallen and the Robert A. Cizik Endowed Chair of Strategy, Technology and Manufacturing at the University of Connecticut.
Professor Floyd’s research encompasses Strategic decision-making processes, corporate entrepreneurship and the middle management perspective on strategy process. Amongst his many publications, he is the co-author of three books, Strategic Management: Logic and Action (with Anne Sigismund Huff, Hugh D. Sherman and Siri Terjesen; John Wiley & Sons, 2008), Building Strategy from the Middle: Reconceptualizing Strategy Process (with Bill Wooldridge; Sage, 2000) and The Strategic Middle Manager (also with Bill Wooldridge; Jossey-Bass, 1996).
He is currently associate editor of Strategic Management Journal, and serves as Treasurer of the Strategic Management Society, as well as on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Colin Hales – Associate Editor 2006 – 2009
Professor Colin Hales is a former Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton Business School’s Centre for Organizational Research. He has also served as Professor of Management at the University of Westminster, and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Surrey’s School of Management.
After beginning his academic career in Social Science at the University of Kent, Professor Hales developed an interest in what constituted and shaped the nature of managerial work, during his time at the Manpower Services Commission. Amongst his many published works into forms of work organization, he is the author of Managing Through Organization: The Management Process, Forms of Organization and the Work of Managers [Cengage Learning EMEA; 2000 (2nd Edition)].
Professor Hales is now retired and, in his own words, “divides his time among writing, travelling, working as a volunteer speaker for a number of health charities and resisting pleas and petitions from music lovers everywhere that he set down his drum-sticks for something more aurally congenial.”
Bill Harley – General Editor 2012 – 2015, Associate Editor 2010 – 2012
Bill Harley is Professor of Management (Human Resource Management and Organisation Studies) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has previously served as General Editor (2012 – 2015) and Associate Editor (2010 – 2012) of the Journal of Management Studies.
Justin Jansen – Associate Editor 2011 – 2013
Professor Justin Jansen is Professor of Corporate Entrepreneurship at Erasmus University, and is co-scientific director (with Roy Thurik) of the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Professor Jansen’s research focuses on entrepreneurship within organisations and the balance between innovation and operational excellence. More broadly, he has published widely in the fields of strategic leadership, organizational learning and absorptive capacity, organizational ambidexterity and corporate entrepreneurship. Professor Jansen’s research has won a number of accolades, including ERIM best paper award, the ERIM best dissertation award, and the SAP best strategy paper.
Professor Jansen has also worked as a research consultant and external advisor to a variety of companies. In this capacity, he has also advised governmental agencies on the entrepreneurial climate in the Netherlands.
Professor Jansen’s involvement in the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship brings together these two sides of his work, providing not only a platform for scholarly examination of entrepreneurship, but a startup campus for entrepreneurs and executive programs for entrepreneurship within established organisations.
He is a recipient of the Erasmus Research Fellowship.
Maddy Janssens – Associate Editor 2013 – 2016
Professor Maddy Janssens is Full Professor of Organisation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium. She has served as visiting or departmental Professor at New York University, INSEAD, and the University of Melbourne.
Professor Janssens’s research focuses on the construction and management of ‘difference’ within an organizational context. She has previously published on expatriate management, global teams, language and translation in MNCs, diversity management, and interorganisational collaborations. She is co-editor of The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity: Nations, Cities and Organizations (with Myriam Bechtoldt; Edward Elgar, 2010) and Sustainable Cities: Diversity, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion (with Dino Pinelli; Edward Elgar, 2009).
Professor Janssens is a former recipient of the Best Paper Award (Critical Management Division) at Academy of Management Meeting (2012), and the KU Leuven Teaching Award (2012). She is a former director of LUCIDE, the Leuven University Center for Interdisciplinary research on Diversity and Equality.
Karen Legge – Editor 1976 – 2003
Karen Legge is Honorary Professor at Lancaster University Management, and former Associate Dean at Warwick Business School. She has previously taught at the University of Manchester, Sheffield University, Imperial College, London and Lancaster University. She was an editor of Personnel Review before joining the team at JMS.
Professor Legge is a pivotal figure in the reconceptualization of Human Resource Management in the 1970s and 1980s. Amongst her many published works, she is known for the seminal texts Power, Innovation and Problem-Solving in Personnel Management (McGraw-Hill, 1978) and Rhetoric and Reality of HRM (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995).
Professor Legge is the longest serving JMS Editor, having served for more than 27 years in the post of Editor. For 21 of these years, she served in tandem with Professor Geoff Lockett. The tension between their different approaches to management epistemology – Lockett as a management scientist, Legge as a qualitatively-oriented specialist with post-modernist leaning – was a defining characteristic of Legge’s tenure at JMS, forming the core of an intellectually rigorous approach to scholarship.
Geoff Lockett – General Editor 1976 –1997
Professor Geoff Lockett was Chairman of the Business School at the University of Leeds. He had previously served at the University of Manchester as Dean of the Faculty of Management, Associate Director of the School and Director of the Doctoral programme.
Professor Lockett began his career as a student of Physics, but after a period as senior research officer at the Steel Company of Wales, he took up a lectureship in Operational Research at the University of Hull. This in turn led to his 25 year career at the University of Manchester, where he served with distinction, initially under JMS founder Grigor McClelland. It was at Manchester that Professor Lockett built his lauded reputation, not only as a gifted teacher and administrator, but also as an expert in information management, the use of information and communication technologies, and of judgemental modelling in decision-making.
Professor Lockett’s 21 years as Editor at JMS were served alongside Manchester colleague Professor Karen Legge. The tension between their different approaches to management epistemology – Lockett as an empirically-focussed management scientist, Legge as a qualitatively-oriented specialist with post-modernist leaning – was a defining characteristic of their tenure at JMS, forming the core of an intellectually rigorous approach to scholarship.
Alongside his research and teaching work, Professor Lockett was a renowned international consultant, and served as a member of a Ministry of Defence committee for eleven years.
Professor Lockett passed away in post in July 1997. The former Geoff Lockett PhD Scholarship (last awarded in 2004) was set up in his memory.
Tom Lupton – Editor 1966 – 1976
Professor Tom Lupton was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. He is not only one of the founding fathers of Manchester Business School, but was part of the first Editorial Board at JMS, and would later become the journal’s second editor.
Professor Lupton had first come to Manchester prior to the Business School in 1954, to join C. Shirley Wilson and Sheila Cunnison in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology. There he contributed to ‘the Manchester factory studies’, the methodologically ground-breaking research inspired by the work of anthropologist of Max Gluckman. His studies not only formed the basis of his PhD thesis, but his groundbreaking first book On The Shop Floor: Two Studies of Workshop Organization and Output (Pergammon, 1963). This would become a landmark text as one of the first to take an anthropological approach to management studies, as opposed to the interview/questionnaire based analysis of contemporary sociology, or the experimental approach of the Hawthorne Experiments.
At the time of his appointment as Editor at the Journal of Management Studies, in 1966 (taking over from Grigor McClelland), Professor Lupton was therefore already well known within the management studies community. He had by that point already headed up the department of Industrial Administration at Birmingham College of Advanced Technology (later Aston University, 1960 – 1964), had subsequently gained his first chair, as Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Leeds, and had become the first Chairman of the Association of Teachers of Management. In this same year he had returned to Manchester, this time to the newly formed Manchester Business School, and would play a major role in the development of what became known as the ‘Manchester Method’, the department’s unique approach to management education and scholarship, as well as the first Manchester MBA. Professor Lupton became Deputy Director of Manchester Business School in 1967, and then succeeded Professor McClelland as Director in 1977. He continued to serve as Director until his retirement in 1983.
By the time Professor Lupton stepped down as Editor of JMS in 1976, the Journal had grown in popularity such that the workload required his replacement with two editors – Professor Lupton’s colleagues Karen Legge and Geoff Lockett. Doubtless this was due in part to Professor Lupton’s increasing profile as a researcher, pursuing interests in wages and work allocation (notably with Dan Gowler, Angela Bowey and Karen Legge), and organisation theory and change (Alan Warmington, and Ian Tanner), particularly with Pilkington Glass. His overarching philosophy was preoccupied with combining the ‘fields of knowledge’ (the management disciplines, their research and teaching) and the ‘fields of action’ (the organizational settings of managerial work). This approach was likely a result of Lupton’s years as an engineering draughtsman in the steel industry, as well as his trades union scholarship to Ruskin College, which led to his graduation from Oriel College with Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1950. This would come to inform not only his academic work – which he termed ‘consultancy-cum-research’ – as well as his approach to education. This was also likely a factor in Lupton’s recruitment to JMS, and it is likely he found a kindred spirit in Grigor McClelland, who also saw the value in combining the insights of academic study and practise of management studies.
Even in retirement, Professor Lupton remained an active member of the management studies community. He then moved to Barcelona, Spain to become the EADA Business School’s Director for International Relations. He was also involved in assisting a number of schools in regards to curriculum and infrastructure change after the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Professor Lupton also continued to research into management practise in the free market economy, as well as being involved in a number of projects in the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Tom Lupton passed away in 1990. Leeds University Business School awards the annual Tom Lupton Prize for Best Doctoral Student. The former SAMS Tom Lupton PhD Scholarship (last awarded in 2004) was set up in his memory.
Gideon Markman– Associate Editor 2020 – 2023
Dr. Gideon D. Markman is a full professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Enterprises at Colorado State University, a Visiting Professor at Gent University in Belgium, and an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Professor Markman’s research focuses on competitive dynamics, market entry, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. His scholarly work appears in diverse journals, including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Supply Chain Management. Professor Markman has led several special issues for the Journal of Management Studies. Finally, he is the founder the Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference, a high-end venue that is sponsored by several institutions and foundations.
Daniel Muzio – General Editor 2020 - 2023, Associate Editor 2016 – 2020
Professor Daniel Muzio is a Professor at the University of York, UK. He has previously worked at the universities of Lancaster, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle. He has held visiting professorships at the Said Business School, Oxford, Cass Business School, The University of Law, in London and Luiss Guido Carli in Rome. Daniel has published in several leading management and social sciences journals, including: The Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Sociology, Human Relations, Journal of Economic Geography, The British Journal of Management and British Journal of Sociology. Besides being an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies, he is a founding editor of the Journal of Professions and Organization (Oxford University Press), a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Professional Services Firms (2015) and co-convener of the EGOS standing working group on Management and Professional Occupations.
Davide Ravasi – Associate Editor 2010 – 2013
Professor Davide Ravasi is Professor of Entrepreneurial and Strategic Management at the Cass Business School, City University London.
Professor Ravasi’s research focuses on two areas; firstly, the interrelations between organizational identity, culture and strategy in times of change; secondly, how discursive and material artifacts influence sensemaking in organizations. He is a co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity (with Majken Schultz, Blake Ashforth, and Michael G. Pratt; Oxford University Press, 2015), and his work has previously appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, and Industrial and Corporate Change.
Professor Ravasi is an academic representative of the Reputation Institute in Italy.
Gerardo Patriotta – General Editor 2018 - 2020, Senior Associate Editor 2016 - 2018, Associate Editor 2013 – 2015
Gerardo Patriotta is Professor of Organisation Studies at the Warwick University Business School, UK. Dr Patriotta’s primary research interests include institutional theory, legitimacy processes, organizational sensemaking, and identity work. His research has combined sociological and organizational theory to understand the work practices and behaviors of, amongst others, shopfloor operators, courtrooms judges, business consultants, global bank managers, air force pilots, and news workers. He is the author of Organizational knowledge in the making: how firms create, use, and institutionalize knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Andrea Prencipe – Associate Editor 2016 – 2021
Professor Andrea Prencipe is a Full Professor of Organization and Innovation at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy and a Visiting Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands. Andrea is Associate Dean for International Development of the LUISS Business School and the Leader of the Organisation Group at LUISS. He has held academic positions at SPRU, INSEAD, and University G. d’Annunzio, and has been a Visiting Professor at SPRU and Imperial College Business School. Andrea’s research interests revolve around the organization of innovation; project-based organizations; and the relationships between regional social capital and firms’ innovation performance. He has published articles on these subjects in management and organisation journals – e.g. Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Science – and in major innovation journals – e.g. Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change.
John Prescott – Senior Associate Editor 2018 - 2020, Associate Editor 2015 - 2018
Professor John Prescott is Thomas O’Brien Chair of Strategy, Professor of Business Administration, and Area Director for Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor Prescott’s research focusses on Global Strategy, including Alliances and Alliance networks, and Mergers and Acquisitions, particularly in the area of Competitive Intelligence. Amongst his many publications, he is co-editor (with Steve Miller) of Proven Strategies in Competitive Intelligence: Lessons from the Trenches (Wiley & Sons; 2001). He has previously won Best Empirical Paper at the Eastern Academy of Management Proceedings (2013) and the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper award (1999), and was a 2014 finalist [with Yinuo Tang and WeiLei (Stone) Shi] for the Academy of Management’s International Best Paper Award.
Professor Prescott comes to JMS as previous co-editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management (2002 – 2004) and Executive Editor for Competitive Intelligence Review (1994 – 2001), and with more than two decades of service on Editorial Boards. He was also elected as Strategy Process Interest Group Representative-at-Large for the Strategic Management Society between 2013 and 2015.
Professor Prescott is the former Vice President of the Competitive Intelligence Foundation (2005 – 2007). He has previously worked as International Advisor to the Society of Competitive Intelligence in China, and participated in a United Nations project on the use of competitive intelligence in the economic development of developing countries
Corinne Post – Associate Editor 2016 – 2020
Professor Corinne Post is Associate Professor and C. Scott Hartz ’68 Term Professor in the Department of Management, College of Business & Economics at Lehigh University. She has previously taught at the Lubin School of Business – Pace University. Prior to her academic career, she was an IT analyst and human resource specialist for Accenture. Professor Post’s research addresses questions related to diversity and diversity management, particularly around: diversity as enabler or impediment to group and organizational performance; mechanisms underlying individual differences in career trajectories and outcomes; and gender and leadership. Her work is published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, and Journal of Business Ethics. Professor Post currently serves as Division Chair for the Careers division of the Academy of Management. Previously she was Program Chair (2015) and Professional Development Workshops Program Chair (2014) of the Careers division of the Academy of Management, Program Chair of the Eastern Academy of Management’s Gender & Diversity division (2011-2013), Executive team member of the Academy of Management Gender & Diversity in Organizations division (2013-16), and co-editor of a published book on diversity. Professor Post has also served as subject matter expert for the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).
Riikka Sarala – Senior Associate Editor 2018 - 2021, Associate Editor 2015 - 2018
Dr. Riikka Sarala is Associate Professor of International Business at UNC Greensboro. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in NYC and EM Lyon Business School in France.
Professor Sarala’s research focusses on the effect of sociocultural dynamics on knowledge and innovation management in the empirical context of international mergers and acquisitions and multinational corporations. Amongst her many international publications, she is also co- author (with Eero Vaara and Paulina Junni) of chapters in the Handbook for Mergers and Acquisitions Research (ed. Yaakov Weber, 2013; Edward Elgar) and Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (2015; Wiley).
Professor Sarala has previously received the Bryan School Junior Research Excellence Award (2012), the Dean’s Research Scholar Grant Award (2012), the Notable Scholar Award (2014) and the Junior Teaching Excellence Award (2015). She was a runner up for Best PhD Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Conference (2005), and has been a finalist for Best Paper Award at the Academy of International Business Conference (2012), the AIB South-East Conference (2012) and the Strategic Management Society Conference (2005).
Professor Sarala’s latest book, Mergers and Acquisitions in Practise (Routledge), co-edited with Cary L. Cooper, Shlomo Y. Tarba and Mohammad F. Ahammad, is out in 2016.
Don Siegel – General Editor 2015 – 2021, Associate Editor 2015
Professor Don Siegel is Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. From 2008-2016, Don served as Dean of the School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and his master’s and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University. He has published 128 journal articles and 23 books on issues relating to university technology transfer and entrepreneurship, the effects of corporate governance on performance, productivity analysis, the economic effects of gambling, and corporate and environmental social responsibility in such leading journals as the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Research Policy, Public Administration Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Management. His most recent books are the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives and the Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship (University of Chicago Press). His citation count, according to Google Scholar, is 55,387 (h-index: 97). He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Management and in 2020, was elected Dean of the Fellows of the Academy of Management.
André Spicer – Associate Editor 2010 – 2012
Professor André Spicer is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Cass Business School, City University London. He has served as visiting Professor at a number of institutions, including the University of Innsbruck, University of Paris Dauphine, Hanken School of Economics and the University of Sydney.
Professor Spicer’s research covers organizational power and politics, organisational culture, employee identity, the creation of new organizational forms, space and architecture plays at work and leadership. Aside from his extensive journal publications, he has worked on books such as Contesting the Corporation (With Peter Fleming; Cambridge University Press, 2010), Unmasking the Entrepreneur (With Campbell Jones; Edward Elgar, 2009), and Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World (With Mats Alvesson; Routledge, 2010).
Professor Spicer is a frequent commentator on global news outlets such as BBC News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Times, Telegraph, Independent and more. His expertise as a consultant has been tapped by the likes of Barclays, Transport for London, IBM, Ford, UK Houses of Parliament and InterSpa (Austria). He has also served as an editor at Organization Studies journal.
His new book with Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome, was released in early 2015 on Polity Press.
Laszlo Tihanyi – Associate Editor 2008 – 2010
Professor Laszlo Tihanyi is the Robyn L. ’89 and Alan B. Roberts ’78 Chair in Business in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He is also an honorary professor at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary.
Professor Tihanyi’s research interests include corporate governance in multinational firms, international strategies, and organizational adaptation in emerging economies. He has previously won 2013 Ricky W. Griffin Outstanding Research Award at Texas A&M University.
Professor Tihanyi served as Chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group in the Strategic Management Society in 2014. He was formerly the B. Marie Oth Professor in Business Administration at Texas A&M University. He is currently Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.
Li-Qun Wei – Associate Editor 2016 – 2018
Professor Li-Qun Wei is Professor of Management in the Department of Management and DBA Program Associate Director of Faculty of Business Administration, Hong Kong Baptist University. She received her Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004. Her research interests are strategic human resource management (SHRM), top management teams (TMTs) and Chinese business strategy, with recent projects mainly focusing on the HRM system evolution and founding team effectiveness in entrepreneurial firms in China.
She has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed, quality academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management, as well as some at the Best Paper proceedings of AoM and AIB annual conferences.
Li-Qun is actively involved in executive training and has experience of providing consultancy services to various kinds of firms, especially small-and-medium sized enterprises.
Robin Wensley – Editor from 1998 - 2002
Professor Robin Wensley is Emeritus Professor of Policy and Marketing at Warwick Business School, and Professor of Strategic Marketing at the Open University, UK. He has previously served as Chair of the School (1989 – 1994) and Chair of the Faculty of Social Studies (1997-9), and previously taught at UCLA and the University of Florida. His research interests include marketing strategy and evolutionary processes in competitive markets, investment decision making and the assessment of competitive advantage.
Professor Wensley was the director of Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) from 2004 to 2011. The ESRC / EPSRC funded project was the biggest programme of investment into research in the field in the UK’s history, and involved academics, business, public sector and policy strategists across over 110 institutions. He was a member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations from 1992, eventually becoming Chair of the Council from 1998 to 2003. Professor Wensley has also served as a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board (1991-05) and was appointed to the Council of the ESRC in 2001.
Professor Wensley also has extensive experience of working in industry, both prior to his academic career (with RHM Foods and Tube Investments) and in his consultancy and management development work (including British Telecom, IBM and Glaxo). He was also a member of the UK Foresight Panel for the Construction Industry (1996 – 8) and the Built Environment and Transport Panel (1999 – 2001).
In 2012 he was recipient of the British Academy of Management’s Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award, and he has twice won the Alpha Kappa Psi award for most influential article in the Journal of Marketing.
Mike Wright – General Editor 2006 – 2008, Editor 2003 – 2006
Mike Wright is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research (CMBOR), and Associate Dean of the Enterprise Research Centre.
As may be surmised from his institutional ties, Professor Wright’s research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology transfer, venture capital and private equity, as well as family firms and emerging economies, amongst other areas. In 1986, he founded of the Centre for Management Buy-out and Private Equity Research (CMBOR), at Nottingham University Business School. The first of its kind to be dedicated to the study of buyouts and private equity, the centre moved to Imperial College Business School in 2011.
Professor Wright is a prolific author, having written more than 50 books, and published more than 400 articles in both academic and professional journals across the world. His most recent publications include Private Equity Demystified (with John Gilligan; ICAEW, 4th Edition 2014), Handbook of Corporate Governance (with Don Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev; Oxford University Press, 2013), Entrepreneurship – A Very Short Introduction (with Paul Westhead; Oxford University Press, 2014), and How to Get Published in the Best Entrepreneurship Journals : A Guide to Steer Your Academic Career (with Alain Fayolle; Edward Elgar, 2014).
During Professor Wright’s tenure, in partnership with Professor Tim Clark, the Journal of Management Studies underwent a great many changes. During this period the Mission Statement of the journal was clarified, with an additional emphasis on rigour and ethics. With an additional focus on responsiveness and an expanded developmental approach, the profile of JMS increased during this time. This period also saw the expansion of the Editorial team and the recruitment of our first Associate Editor, Steve Floyd, who was also our first North American Editor. The high profile and strong international links forged by the Professors was of great benefit to the journal. Professor Clark and Professor Wright’s leadership at JMS is often credited with creating much of the international character of JMS, as well as the reputation for prompt, friendly and professional service that continues today.
Aside from his term at the Journal of Management Studies, Professor Wright has served as editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and the Journal of Technology Transfer. He is currently an editor at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Professor Wright is a member of the British Venture Capital Association Research Advisory Committee, past chair of Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division – as well as a recipient of the Division’s Mentor Award – and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Wright has also worked as consultant to a number of other organisations, and in 2007 ranked as number 1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship (Rothaermel, F.T., Agung, S. D. and Jiang, L. (2007) University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16, 4, pp. 691–791).