Research Seminar: Professor Gerard P. Hodgkinson

Title: The past, present and future of business and management studies

Abstract: The Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Distinguished Scholar Award of the Academy of Management, established in 2002, recognizes senior scholars in the MOC field who have made exceptional contributions to understanding individual, relational, and collective cognition in organizational contexts throughout their careers. To be eligible for the award, an individual must first be a truly distinguished scholar. She or he must have conducted research that has had a significant influence in the field by publishing high-impact articles in the very best journals. Second, he or she must have contributed to the field through service by holding a leadership position with the MOC division or the Academy, by serving as an editor or action editor of leading journals, and/or being an exceptional mentor for doctoral students. Finally, the individual must have completed his or her PhD at least twenty years ago. In this seminar, the 2024 recipient of this award, Gerard P Hodgkinson, will offer his scholarly and personal reflections on the past, present and future of the field of business and management studies, broadly conceived. Drawing on his many and varied experiences, in a career spanning four decades, he will seek to engage colleagues at all career stages in a lively and thought-provoking conversation about issues that (should) matter to us all.

Bio: Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. A global authority on the psychology of strategic management and organizational decision-making, his current theoretical interests centre on the behavioral microfoundations of dynamic managerial capabilities, especially the nature and role of conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes, emotion, and personality and individual differences in strategic adaptation. Other work addresses the production and diffusion of knowledge in the management and organization sciences and its significance for wider publics. The (co-)author of over 150 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, the (co-)author of three books, and the co-editor of 10 others, his work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, among many other distinguished outlets. In recognition of his sustained contribution to the development of the emerging interdisciplinary subfield of behavioral strategy, Gerard is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the British Academy of Management, and the British Psychological Society, and in 2021 he was awarded the Medal for Research by the British Academy of Management. He has undertaken a number of major editorial roles, including an eight-year term as the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management, a 12-year term as Co-Editor of the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and a five-year term as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management. He has also held significant leadership positions in several major universities and learned societies, including the MOC Division of the Academy of Management, in which capacity he has served two terms of office, first as the Division’s International Representative at Large (2002-2005), and then over a five-year rotating period of office (2007-2012) which incorporated the roles of PDW Chair, Program Chair, and Division Chair. More recently, he served a five-year term of office as the Vice-Dean for Research (Faculty of Humanities) at the University of Manchester, in which capacity he was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Faculty’s research goals and operational plan, in accordance with the University’s overall strategy and statement on research expectations, including oversight of 20 of the University’s 31 Returns to the REF2021 research assessment exercise, improving and diversifying external research grant capture, and taking forward the Faculty and wider University’s research impact agenda. (The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester encompasses the full range of the social sciences, as well as traditional arts and humanities subjects.)

Note: Tea/coffee and sandwiches will be served between 12-1pm at room 419.

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