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Professor Andy Friedman

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Professor of Management and Economics

Contact details

Tele: +44 (0) 117 33 17584
Email: A.L.Friedman@bristol.ac.uk
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Room: 3C3

Research Interests

Andrew Friedman is the managing director of the Professional Associations Research Network (PARN); a research and development network which includes most of the larger professional bodies in the UK.

Andrew has published widely on issues concerning management, information systems, professions, stakeholding and the environment, much of the latter in connection with various projects carried out for WWF-UK .

From 2002, he has published articles in the Journal of Management Studies, Business Strategy and the Environment, British Journal of Educational Technology, International Journal of Lifelong Education and Sociology. He is widely cited in the journals with over 400 separate citations of his work listed in the various citation indices.

Recent Publications

  • 'Balancing strategy and accountability: A model for the governance of professional associations' (with M Phillips) Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15(2), 187-204, (2005)
  • 'Strawmaning and Labour Process Analysis' Sociology, 38(3), 573-91, (2004)
  • 'Stakeholder Theory and Communication Practice' (with S V Miles) Journal of Communication Management, 9(1), 7-9, (2004)
  • 'CPD programmes of UK professional associations: developing a vision' (with M Phillips) Journal of Education and Work, 17(4), (2004)

Recent Books

  • 'Member Relations and Strategy: Supporting Member Involvement and Retention' (with C Williams) PARN: Bristol (2006)
  • 'Stakeholders: Theory and Practice' (with S V Miles) Oxford University Press, Oxford, (2006)
  • 'Governance of Professional Associations: Theory and Practice' (with J Mason) PARN, Bristol, (2006)
  • 'Analysing Ethical Codes of UK Professional Bodies' (with S Daly and R Andrzejewska) PARN, Bristol, (2005)

Conference Papers Published in Proceedings

  • 'Professionalism and Professional Associations' Study of Professions Conference , Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway, (June, 2004)
  • 'Reflection and autonomy: how changes in the labour process are influencing managers' learning' (with DCH Watts) Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, (August 2003)
  • 'Balancing strategy and accountability: a model for the governance of professional associations' (with M Phillips) Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, (August 2003)
  • 'Exploring the social construction of stakeholder management in the UK'(with S V Miles) Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, (August 2003)