Expertise

Discontinuous innovation. Disruptive technology.
Demand driven supply chains.
Inter-organisational information systems.

Overview

Dr Andrew White is the Associate Dean for Executive Education at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. With responsibility for leading custom, open and diploma executive education programmes in the School, Andrew is helping develop and implement its strategy of making research available to senior leaders who are leading and implementing change.

His vision for executive education is primarily focused on the demands on leadership in the 21st century, and looking at how these might best be met among organisations and executives. In essence, the organisations that are playing a central role in re-shaping business and society will greatly benefit from gaining access to the knowledge contained in the School and the University. The central challenge therefore facing executive education is in connecting its clients’ leadership challenges with that knowledge. This means building on traditions of passion for the customer and innovative and effective programme delivery while achieving a further ‘step-change’ in terms of mobilising and making available Oxford’s intellectual resource. It means providing a platform to communicate with senior leaders on issues that affect the future of societies and organisations via executive education programmes.

"We can talk with far greater credibility, authority and insight about these issues. Why? Because we can draw on Oxford’s wide-ranging intellectual resources and its commitment to intellectual rigour, coupled with our proven ability to embed these in innovative programme design and delivery."

Andrew is also an experienced programme director, teacher and researcher. He has directed and taught on a wide range of executive development programmes, for organisations such as BAE Systems, Lloyd’s Market Association, the Government of Abu Dhabi, high potential leaders in Syria, Avon Cosmetics, State Farm and IBM. He has a research interest in leadership development, discontinuous change, change management and strategy development.

He acts as a consultant to a number of global organisations, and has co-authored a review of how information technology will create intelligent infrastructure systems over the next few decades for the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce and is a Scholar with the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a UK government initiative that aims to exemplify how collaborative management research and development can contribute to academic, business, public service and policy audiences. In this latter capacity he has recently published three reports on the future of business schools in the UK.

Research interests

Andrew White's research focuses on understanding how organisations can successfully manage innovation, particularly discontinuous innovation. This subject has been the focus of a recent Financial Times article he has written. These innovations are of a strategic, product, market or technology based nature, and they often occur in the context of networks of organisations. The outputs of his research have been published in several international journals, and have been presented at numerous international conferences.

Current projects

Dealing with discontinuity.
The future of business schools.

Journal articles: 

White, A.D. and Mohdzain, Z.M. An Innovative Model of Supply Chain Management: A Single Case Study in the Electronics Sector, International Journal of Information Technology and Management , Forthcoming

Harrison, A.H. and White, A.D. (2006). Intelligent Distribution and Logistics, IEE Proceedings - Intelligent Transport Systems , Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. pp. 167-180.

Fernandes, K. Raja, V., White, A.D. and Tsinopoulos, C. (2006). Adoption of Virtual Reality within Construction Processes: A Factor Analysis Approach, Technovation , Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 111-120.

White, A.D. and Daniel, E. Mohdzain, Z.M., (2005). The Role of Emergent Information Technologies and Systems in Enabling Supply Chain Agility, International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 396-410 .

Daniel, E.M. and White, A., (2005). “The Future of Inter-Organisational System Linkages: Findings of an International Delphi Study” European Journal of Information Systems , Vol. 14, No. 2, p.188-203.

White, A., Daniel, L. and Wilkinson, M. (2004). Impact of E-Marketplaces on Buyer-Supplier Relationships:  A Cross Industry Perspective of the ‘Move to the Middle' Hypothesis, International Journal of Information and Technology Management, Vol. 3, No 2/3/4, pp. 127-140.

Breu, K. and White, A. (2004). The Coming of the Ubiquitous Organisation; An Essay on the Emergence of a New Organisational Paradigm, Revue Sciences de Gestion , Vol. 40, pp. 217-235.

Daniel, E.M., White, A. and Ward, J.M (2004). “Exploring the Role of Third Parties in Inter-Organisational Web Service Adoption”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management , Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 351-360 .

White, A. and Daniel, E.M, (2004). “The Impact of E-Marketplaces on Dyadic Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 441-453.

White, A. and Daniel, E.M, (2004). “Electronic Marketplaces: An Empirical Study in the UK Healthcare Sector”, International Journal of Electronic Business , Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.603-624.

Daniel, E.M. Hoxmeier, J. White, A. and Smart, A. (2003). "A Framework for the Sustainability of E-Marketplaces", Business Process Management Journal , Vol. 9, No. 5. pp. 277-290.

Book chapters:

White, A.D. and Bessant, J. Managerial Responses to Cognitive Dissonance: Causes of the Mismanagement of Discontinuous Technological Innovations, In: Sherif, M.H. and Khalil, T.M. (Eds) Management of Technology: New Directions in Technology Management , Elsevier, 2006.

Other Publications

White, A. and Bessant, J. (2006). Change is Closer Than it Seems, Financial Times (Mastering Uncertainty) Wednesday 27th March.

Ivory, C., Miskell, P., Shipton, H., White, A. and Neely, A. (2006) UK Business Schools : Finding the Path to a Successful Future, Advanced Institute of Management , UK.