Strategy

Born in Bradford, England, Stewart Clegg was Reader at Griffith University (1976-84), Professor at the University of New England (1985-9), Professor at the University of St. Andrews (1990-3), Foundation Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, (1993-6) before moving to UTS. He is Research Director of CMOS (Centre for Management and Organisation Studies) Research at UTS, and holds a small number of Visiting Professorships at prestigious European universities and research centres. He is one of the most published and cited authors in the top-tier journals in the Organization Studies field and the only Australian to be recognised a by a multi-method ranking, as one of the world’s top-200 “Management Guru’s” in What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, and H. James Wilson (2003), Harvard: Harvard Business Review Press. Because the central focus of his theoretical work has always been on power relations he has been able to write on many diverse and ubiquitous topics – because power relations are everywhere! He is the author of two widely used textbooks on Management & Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (with Martin Kornberger andTyrone Pitsis) and Strategy: Theory and Practice (with Chris Carter, Martin Kornberger and Jochen Schweitzer), both published by Sage. He is also the chief editor of the Handbook of Organization Studies (with Cynthia Hardy, Walter F. Nord and Thomas B. Lawrence), Handbook of Power (with Mark Haugaard) and Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behaviour (with Cary Cooper), all published by Sage. In 2012 he will publish a book with Oxford University Press on The Virtues of Leadership: Contemporary Challenges for Global Managers (with Arménio Regio, and Miguel Pinha e Cunha), as well as a set of eight 'Major Works" on Power and Organizations and Political Power and Organizations, jointly edited with Mark Haugaard. Outside work he enjoys cultural pursuits, travel, and current affairs. Jochen Schweitzer is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Trained as both an engineer and a social scientist, he concentrates his research on issues of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, with a special interest in design thinking and emerging technologies. Jochen also serves as the founding Faculty Director of UTS’s MBA in Entrepreneurship and Bachelor in Entrepreneurship (Honours) programs. He was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) School of Design Thinking at Potsdam University. Jochen is a winner of the Strategic Management Societies' Best Paper Award and he received Honourable Mention by the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. Jochen is as a passionate educator, who has taught at universities in the UK, Japan, China, US, Germany, and New Zealand. Before becoming an academic, Jochen was Principal at PwC's European Strategy Consulting practice. Andrea Whittle is Professor of Management at Newcastle University Business School and previously Head of the Strategy, Organization and Society Research Group. Before joining Newcastle University in 2013, Andrea held a Chair in Organization Studies at Cardiff University. Andrea started her academic career in Natural Science, then did a PhD in Sociology in the field of Science and Technology Studies and since then has taught Management in Business Schools. Andrea’s interest in strategy started without plan or design – much like many strategies themselves emerge. While doing an ethnography of a group of management consultants for her doctoral research, she was fascinated by the social, political, material and discursive processes through which the group tried to shape the firm’s strategy agenda, albeit not always successfully. Since then, she has gone on to develop a keen interest in strategy as practice, applying organization theory and social theory to the study of strategizing processes in a range of contexts. Her more recent work has included longitudinal ethnographic research on a strategy project team in a Multinational Corporation and work on how top managers account for their strategic decisions following crises and scandals. Central to all her work is a concern for understanding how discourse and power are implicated in all forms of organization – of which strategy is not an exception but an exemplar. Chris Pitelis is Life Fellow, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and literary executor of the collected papers of Edith Penrose. Chris researches on sustainable international business strategy and governance, national and regional competitiveness. He published over ten books and circa a hundred articles in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and The Leadership Quarterly. He has served as Dean of College, Head of School, Director of Research and Engagement Center, and visiting professor in leading Universities. He served at the editorial boards of leading journals, organized, presented and chaired numerous conferences, was invited speaker and coordinated projects, taught, consulted, trained and designed policies for international organizations, governments and regions, businesses and NGOs.