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Principle biographies: click on the names below to read a full biography.
- Professor Phil Beaumont
- Professor Martin Beirne
- Chris Cromack
- Robin Gordon
- Professor Marian V Jones
- Professor Angus Laing
- Dr Paul Maglio
- Professor Douglas Macbeth
- Dr Stephen McLaughlin
- Martin Murphy
- Dr Judy Pate
- Professor Robert A Paton
- Anne M J Smith
- Dr Elizabeth Williamson
- Professor Stephen Young
Professor Phil Beaumont
Phil Beaumont is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Glasgow Department of Management. Recent publications and research funding awards have concerned issues associated with the management of knowledge workers; the impact of human resource practices upon organisational performance; and, the diffusion of human resource practices in organisational performance within multi-national enterprises. Phil has strong teaching and research contacts at a number of leading US business schools, such as at Cornell and Michigan Universities, and indeed is currently, together with Judy Pate, working with colleagues at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, on a cross national study of human resources issues in the airline line industry.
Professor Martin Beirne
Martin is Professor of Management and Organizational Behaviour at the University of Glasgow. He has more than twenty years of experience in teaching and conducting research on work organization and employee relations, with particular attention to re-design and re-structuring initiatives. He has held Economic and Social Research Council funding (with Professor Harvie Ramsay of Strathclyde University) for work on the management of software projects and user-participation in the development of work technologies. Much of his recent research has concentrated on issues around the enhancement of practitioner insights and reflective abilities in promoting workplace innovation. Martin has published in a broad range of academic and practitioner journals, including The European Management Journal, Management Learning, Behaviour and Information Technology, New Technology, Work and Employment, The Software Quality Journal, The International Journal of Cultural Policy and The International Journal of Arts Management. He is author of Empowerment and Innovation: Managers, Principles and Reflective Practice, 2006.
Chris Cromack
Chris' speciality is Business Transformation and the on demand Supply Chain; including Process and Systems Re-engineering and Project Management. He has a wide knowledge and experience in these areas ranging from business and systems architecture, programming and systems design, through to definition of more effective processes and the management of deployment and operational environments. Over recent years, Chris has led many significant business transformation projects. The projects range from sensitive challenges such as Outsourcing and Divestiture through to complex global e-Business initiatives. In addition to the specific business related activities, Chris is active in a many other areas. These include presenting at seminars, lecturing in industry; working closely with universities; mentoring the next generation of technical leaders and playing a leading role in the Professions and Innovations programmes within IBM.
Professor Marian V Jones
Her research on the internationalisation of high technology small firms has been widely published in internationally recognized journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of International Marketing, and has won awards such as the Hans B. Thorelli Award for contribution to theory. Among her publishing credits include her role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Entrepreneurship. Current research interests focus on the inter–relationship between innovation and internationalisation in international new ventures in the biotechnology and medical products industries, and the development of international networks as a means of poverty alleviation in poorer.
Professor Angus Laing
Currently Professor of Management and Head of School at the School of Business and Management at the University of Glasgow, he previously held the Beneficial Bank Chair of Marketing at the Open University Business School where he was Director of Research. Research interests centre on the consumption and delivery of professional services in contemporary societies. As part of this activity he is leading an Economic and Social Research Council funded study of the impact of the information revolution on service consumption and a major Department of Health project on patient use of e-health services. Previous work has been funded by the Department of Trade and Industry in the UK, the NHS, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and a range of private sector organisations including HSBC and Liberty Mutual. Has published extensively on issues of service consumption and management across public and private sectors in a range of academic and professional journals in both Europe and the United States as well as contributing to texts on services marketing and consumption. This research activity is complemented by an extensive range of management development and consultancy work undertaken with a range of public and private sector organisations.
Dr Paul Maglio
Dr Paul Maglio is an executive at IBM’s Almaden Research Centre in California. He has combined his expertise in computer science, cognitive science and how people work to pioneer the new academic field of service science. He has published widely in the general field of Services Science and collaborated with leading researchers both within and outwith IBM.
Professor Douglas Macbeth
Douglas Macbeth is Professor of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management at the University of Southampton School of Management. He has researched collaboratively with IBM for many years and his research interests include both the operational and strategic impact of Supply Chains, especially in Global businesses.
Dr Stephen McLaughlin
Dr. Stephen McLaughlin is an IBM sponsored Adam Smith Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this appointment he was a manager with IBM (UK) Ltd and a former doctoral student of the University of Glasgow. Most recently his roles within IBM have been related to supply chain optimization and performance management. He has recently completed a PhD, in which he examines how complex organizations identify and manage inhibitors to performance related knowledge transfer. As well as holding the IBM sponsored Adam Smith Fellowship Stephen is also Managing Partner with Krobus LLP and his research and consultancy areas of interest cover supply chain performance, learning organizations, organizational change, and knowledge transfer.
Martin Murphy
Martin has consulted in the private and public sector over the past 15 years in the area of supply chain management. This includes assignments in the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle and Far East. Experience of different sectors includes oil and gas, chemicals and refining, pharmaceuticals, aerospace and defence, shipbuilding, hotel and leisure, automotive, rail, health, food and drink, construction and electronics. This includes sectoral level projects from a supply chain perspective as well as long term assignments working with key clients both developing and implementing strategy.
He is the Managing Director of SCMG, a successful consultancy spin out from the University of Glasgow.
Dr Judy Pate
Judy Pate is a senior lecturer in Strategic Management in the Department of Management at the University of Glasgow. She has conducted research into aspects of the employee-employer relationship for nearly 10 years, completing her PhD in 2001 on the topic of the psychological contract. She has secured a number of grants from public, private and charitable organisations to pursue her research interests and demonstrates the topical nature of her field. The recent award of Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) scholar status and an invitation to join a research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maybe regarded as clear recognition of the value placed upon her research contribution.
Professor Robert Paton
Robert Paton: he is a Professor of Management at the University of Glasgow. He researches, publishes and lectures in the field of managing change, knowledge transfer and organizational innovation. He has collaborated widely with co-researchers and various organisations and currently directs Glasgow’s engagement with the European Management Journal. At present he is concentrating efforts on examining how best to achieve effective knowledge transfer within complex change scenarios. He is increasingly focusing on services science and innovation. Robert, with IBM support, has recently launched the Services Innovation Research Network (SIRN). He has published in the Journal of Information Technology, Management Decision, European Management Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management and the International Journal of Project Management. In addition, he has worked on programmes and consultancy associated with Associated News Papers, Clydesdale Bank, ESCP (Paris), Glaxo Welcome, Glasgow Housing Association, GSBA (Zurich), IBM, ScottishPower, Scottish Health Board Consortium and SCMG.
Anne M J Smith
Anne Smith lectures in entrepreneurship and business development at Glasgow Caledonian University. Survival, success and growth of firms are the foundation of her research, which are interests derived from being third generation of a family business. As a result of several business development studies, Anne has published work covering entrepreneurial knowledge, learning and business development. This has been applied through her involvement with the Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowships for technology transfer, during design and delivery of commercialisation training and is evident from her academic work in the recently accredited EDGE (Encouraging and Developing Global Entrepreneurs) programme.
Dr Elizabeth Williamson
Dr Elizabeth Williamson is a senior lecturer in Electronic Business, within the Division of Strategy, Innovation & Enterprise at Glasgow Caledonian University. With many years teaching and research experience in information systems management, she has recently completed her PhD in 2007 on the impact of inter-organisational information systems on business partner relations within Supply Chain Management. This work included studies on a range of businesses from small Scottish companies to large multi-national companies. She has also carried out consultancy for the Scottish Periodical Publishing Industry and the Scottish Creative and Media Industries. She has published in the International Journal of Information Management, the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Journal and the International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management.
Professor Stephen Young
Stephen Young has worked throughout his life in international economics and international business. He has had visiting appointments at Louisiana State University; University of Texas, and Georgetown University (where he was an EU Fulbright Scholar-in-residence); and many other short-term posts in Asia (China and Pakistan), Africa (Nigeria and Algeria, Malawi), and Europe (Stockholm School of Economics; ESC Nantes and HEC, France; Danube University, Austria; and Athens University of Economics & Business). Prof. Young has had a range of non-executive directorships, and consultancies with international businesses; and has worked as an adviser with UNCTAD (where he has worked on UNCTAD Investment Policy reviews for Egypt, Tanzania and Nigeria), World Bank (MIGA), OECD, ILO and US Department of Commerce. He has been a Specialist Adviser to two House of Commons Select Committees on Inward and Outward Investment. He is currently a member of the High Council for Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal. His research, consulting and teaching interests relate to: multinational and subsidiary strategy; the internationalization of the firm; the impact of FDI in host countries; inward investment attraction and host country policies; and public policy and international business (at multilateral, regional and national levels).