Richard Whittington

The Strategy-as-Practice movement has revitalised research on strategy processes, with formally-recognised streams in such leading conferences as the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Management, the European Group for Organizational Studies and the British Academy of Management.

Richard is author of eleven books, including two influential textbooks on strategy: Exploring Strategy, ranked by the Financial Times Teaching Power index as the top strategy textbook worldwide, and What is Strategy – and Does it Matter?, past winner of the Management Consulting Association prize for the best management book of the year.  He has published in leading journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research Policy and the Strategic Management Journal. His work has received more than 50,000 citations. His Google Scholar profile provides links to his papers.

Richard has served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, a Senior Editor of Organization Studies and a Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Management. He has served as a guest editor for eight journal special issues. He has also served on the Board of the Strategic Management Society and as Chair of the Strategy as Practice interest group at the Academy of Management. Richard is Millman Fellow in Management at New College, University of Oxford, where he has served as Sub-Warden.

Richard has held full or visiting appointments at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, Imperial College, the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Toulouse and Warwick Business School. He has a PhD from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, an MBA from Aston Business School and an MA in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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