Overview

Royston Greenwood received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham. Currently, he is the Telus Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Alberta, Canada and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

Recent work has appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations & Society, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, the Journal of Business Venturing, and the Journal of Management Studies. He has published or edited six books including the recently published SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism.

Greenwood serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals and is a founding co-editor of Strategic Organization. He has been a Guest Editor for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and Organization Studies. He is the 2009 Programme Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management and will assume the position of Division Chair in 2010.

The 2006 paper (“Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The Big Five accounting firms”) won the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal. Greenwood also won the 2008 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the same journal. In 2004 he was named the JMI Scholar of the Western Academy of Management.

Research interests

Royston Greenwood's research interests focus upon institutional and organizational change processes, often using the professions and professional service firms as the empirical setting.

Publications (since 2000)

Books & Book Chapters

2008 Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Suddaby, R., Sahlin, K. Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. Sage Publications

2009 Suddaby, R., Greenwood, R. Methodological issues in researching institutional change. In, D.A. Buchanan & A. Bryman (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London, UK: SAGE Publications.

2008 Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K., Suddaby, R. Introduction. In, R. Greenwood, et al (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. London, UK: SAGE Publications.

2007 Greenwood, R. “Redefining professionalism? The impact of management change”. In, L. Empson (ed.), Managing the Modern Law Firm: New Challenges, New Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2007 Greenwood, R. “Resource-dependence theory”. In, S. Clegg (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Sage Publications.

2007 Greenwood, R. “Strategic-contingency theory”. In, S. Clegg (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Sage Publications.

2007 Greenwood, R. “Organization theories”. In G. Riker (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sociology.
 
2006 Greenwood, R., Hinings, C.R. “Radical organization change”. In, S. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. Lawrence & W. Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies, London: Sage Publications.

2003 Hinings, C.R., Greenwood, R., Reay, T., Suddaby, R. “The dynamics of change in organizational fields”. In, M.S. Poole & A. Van de Ven (eds.), Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press.

2003 Jennings, P.D., Greenwood, R. “Constructing the iron cage: New institutionalism and enactment-a counterpoint to Weick”. In, Clegg & Westwood (eds.), Debating Organisation: Point/Counterpoint in Organisation Studies. London: Routledge.

2003 Steier, L.P., Greenwood, R. “Venture capitalist relationships in the deal structuring and post-investment stages of new firm creation”. In, M. Wright, H.J. Sapienza & L.W. Busenitz (eds.), Venture Capital, Volume II. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

2002 Greenwood, R., Salterio, S. “Loblaw Companies Ltd.”. In T.B. Bell & I. Solomon, Cases in Strategic-systems Auditing. KPMG and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

2002 Johnson, G., Greenwood, R. “Institutional theory and strategic management”. In M.D. Jenkins (ed.), Strategic Management: A Multiple Perspective Approach. London: MacMillan.

2000 Cooper, D.J., Rose, T., Greenwood, R., Hinings, C.R. “History and contingency in international accounting firms”. In, A. Yaharoni & L. Nachum, (eds.) Globalization of Services. London: Routledge.

Articles

Forthcoming: Jennings, J.E., Jennings, P.D., Greenwood, R. Novelty in the organization and management of human capital: Implications for new firm performance. Journal of Business Venturing.

Greenwood, R., Diaz, A. M., Li S. X., & Lorente, J.P. Institutional Complexity and The heterogeneity of Organizational Responses, Organization Science

2007 Suddaby, R., Cooper, D.J., Greenwood, R. Trans-national regulation of professional services: Governance dynamics of field level organizational change. Accounting, Organizations & Society, 32 (4-5): 333-362.

2007 Greenwood, R., Li, S.X., Deephouse, D.L. Ownership and performance of professional service firms. Organization Studies, 28 (2): 219-238.

2007 Vermeulen, P., Büch, R., Greenwood, R. The impact of governmental policies in institutional fields: The case of innovation in the Dutch concrete industry. Organization Studies, 28 (4): 515-540.

2006 Greenwood, R., Suddaby, R., McDougald, M. “Introduction”. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 24, 1-17.

2006 Cliff, J.E., Jennings, P.D., Greenwood, R. “The strategic positioning of professional service firm start-ups: Balance beguiles but purism pays”. In, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 24.

2006 Cliff, J.E., Jennings, P.D., Greenwood, R. New to the game and questioning the rules: The experiences and beliefs of founders who start imitative vs. innovative firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 21 (5): 633-663.

2006 Greenwood, R., Suddaby, R. Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The Big Five accounting firms. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 27-48.

2006 Greenwood, R., Suddaby, R. The case of disappearing firms: Death or deliverance? Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27 (1): 101-108.

2005 Greenwood, R., Li, S.X., Prakash, R., Deephouse, D.L. Reputation, diversification and organizational explanations of performance in professional service firms. Organization Science, 16 (6): 661-673.

2005 Suddaby, R., Greenwood, R. Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50 (1): 35-67.

2004 Li, S.X., Greenwood, R. The effect of within-industry diversification on firm performance: Synergy creation, multi-market contact and market structuration. Strategic Management Journal, 25 (12): 1131-1152. LEAD ARTICLE

2003 Hinings, C.R., Casebeer, A., Reay, T., Golden-Biddle, K., Pablo, A., Greenwood, R. Regionalizing healthcare in Alberta: Legislated change, uncertainty and loose coupling. British Journal of Management, 14 (S1): S15-S30.

2003 Greenwood, R. Commentary on: Toward a theory of agency and altruism in family firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 18: 491-494.

2003 Greenwood, R., Empson, L. The professional partnership: Relic or exemplary form of governance? Organization Studies, 24 (6): 909-933.

2002 Greenwood, R., Hinings, C.R., Suddaby, R. Theorizing change: The role of professional associations in the transformation of institutionalized fields. Academy of Management Journal, 45 (1): 58-80.
 
2002 Hinings, C.R., Greenwood, R. Disconnects and consequences in organization theory? Administrative Science Quarterly, 47 (3): 411-421.

2001 Suddaby, R., Greenwood, R. Colonizing knowledge: Commodification as a dynamic of jurisdictional expansion in professional service firms. Human Relations, 54 (7): 933-53.

2000 Greenwood, R. How investment in organizational design impacts the effectiveness of KM. Knowledge Management Review, 3 (4): 10-11.

2000 Steier, L.P., Greenwood, R. Entrepreneurship and the evolution of angel financial networks. Organizational Studies, 21 (1): 163-193.