The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas
Edited by Andrew Sturdy, Stefan Heusinkveld, Trish Reay, and David Strang
Author Information
Edited by Andrew Sturdy, Professor of Management and Organization, University of Bristol, Stefan Heusinkveld, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Trish Reay, Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, University of Alberta, and David Strang, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he held posts at Imperial College London and the Universities of Bath, Melbourne and Warwick. His research lies mostly in the field of organisational innovation and the role of management consultancy. His work includes co-authored books such as Beyond Organisational Change (Macmillan), Management Consultancy (Oxford University Press) and Management as Consultancy (Cambridge University Press). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and a Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His latest work explores consultancy in national and transnational public sector contexts, including the UK National Health Service.
Stefan Heusinkveld is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His research concentrates on the production and consumption of management ideas with a special interest in studying the role of professions and occupations, management gurus, and the business media. He has published on these topics in several journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies. His work also includes books such as The Management Idea Factory (Routledge), and The Flow of Management Ideas (Cambridge University Press). He is lead coordinator of the EGOS Standing Working Group on 'Management, Occupations and Professions in Social Context'.
Trish Reay is Professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. She also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professor appointment at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, organizational and institutional change, professions, and professional identity. She studies these topics in the context of health care and family firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Studies.
David Strang is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His research has focused on the spread of practices in the business, political, and scientific worlds. He has developed statistical methods for the study of diffusion within an event history framework and agent-based models for the simulation of booms and busts in managerial fashion. Strang is author of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank (Princeton, 2010) and has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology and Organization Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, INSEAD, Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv University, and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford.
Contributors:
Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Massey University
Phil Almond, University of Leicester
Deborah Anderson, University of Oxford
Shaz Ansari, University of Cambridge
Marcos Barros, Grenoble École de Management
Jos Benders, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School
Suleika Bort, University of Mannheim
Patricia Bromley, Stanford University
Sylwia Ciuk, Oxford Brookes University
David Collins, University of Suffolk
Tony Edwards, Loughborough University London
Lars Engwall, Uppsala University
Nicolai Foss, Bocconi University
Hélène Giroux, HEC Montréal
Philip Hancock, University of Essex
Stefan Heusinkveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jonas A. Ingvaldsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Philipp Kern, Loughborough University London
Alfred Kieser, University of Mannheim
Juha-Antti Lamberg, University of Jyväskylä
Darren McCabe, Lancaster University
Mohit Mehta, Cranfield University
Michael Mol, Copenhagen Business School
Joe O'Mahoney, Cardiff University
Martin Parker, University of Bristol
Alessandro Piazza, Rice University
Shawn Pope, Stanford University
Craig Prichard, Massey University
Andreas Rasche, Stockholm School of Economics
Trish Reay, Alberta School of Business
Michael Reed, Cardiff University
Patrick Reinmoeller, Cranfield University
Kjell Arne Røvik, University of Norway
Charles-Clemens Rüling, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Riku Ruotsalainen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stephanie Russell, Anglia Ruskin University
Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
Hannele Seeck, University of Turku
David Seidl, University of Cambridge
Pramodita Sharma, University of Vermont
Sanjay Sharma, University of Vermont
Jost Sieweke, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Strang, Cornell University
Andrew Sturdy, University of Bristol
Olga Tregaskis, University of East Anglia
Melissa Tyler, Essex Business School
Marlieke van Grinsven, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peter Walgenbach, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Linda Wedlin, Uppsala University
Andreas Werr, Stockholm School of Economics
Richard Whittington, University of Oxford
Christopher Wickert, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Wittrock, Oslo Metropolitan University
Christopher Wright, The University of Sydney
