Professor Andrew Sturdy

Research summary

Professor Andrew Sturdy's research interests focus mainly on issues of power and identity in the production and use of management ideas, especially in relation to management consultancy and organisational change. He has published widely on these topics in articles and books and led two ESRC-funded research projects on management consultancy. He advises various organisations on the use of management consultancy and has a public policy interest in this area. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry.

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Biography

Andrew Sturdy is a graduate of the University of Manchester (BSc, 1983; PhD, 1990). He has held academic posts in various institutions including a lectureship at the University of Bath, a senior lectureship at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a readership at Imperial College London. In 2004, he became a professor of organisational behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, where he was subsequently appointed Associate Dean.

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Selected publications

• Boussebaa, M, Morgan, G & Sturdy, A 2012, ‘Constructing global firms? National, transnational and postcolonial effects in international management consultancies’. Organization Studies, vol 33, 4., pp. 465 - 486
• Christopher, W, Sturdy, A & Nick, W 2012, ‘Management innovation through standardization: Consultants as standardizers of organizational practice’. Research Policy, vol 41, 3., pp. 652 - 662

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