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Professor Sarah Robinson

Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building

Sarah Robinson is a Professor at Rennes School of Business and a visting Professor at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, the Open University, Lancaster University and in international development in China and Ukraine.

Her interests relate to learning in its many forms, both personal and organisational. She is particularly interested in developing visual, digital and hermeneutic research methodologies for organisational research and in applications of Pierre Bourdieu’s work to organisation studies. 

Projects

Current projects include:

• a study of the learning and development of early career academics in contemporary business schools
• the origins and development of the English wine industry
• the genesis of women as political leaders in Scotland.

Journals

Sarah has published in a broad range of journals including:

• Human Relations
• Organization Studies
• British Journal of Management
• Organisation
• Business History
• Management Learning
• Leadership and International Small Business Journal.

Professor David Sarpong

Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building

David Sarpong is Professor of Strategy and the Marketing and Strategy Subject Group Head at Aston Business School, Aston University. An elected Vice Chair of the British Academy of Management (BAM), David serves on the BAM Council’s Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AACCB), and is a former Convenor of the Annual Doctoral Symposium of the Academy. A Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, David has since 2015 conducted research on Russia's Basic Research Program (RBRP) on 'Global Competitiveness’ at the National Research University in Moscow. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Strategy and Management, and currently enjoys a Visiting Professorship at the Bristol Business School, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the School of Management, Information Technology, and Public Governance, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

Prof Adina Dudau

Professor of Public Management, University of Glasgow

Adina Dudau is Professor of Public Management at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School. Her research interest on public service management combines disciplinary aspects of organisational theory, management control, strategy, human resources and organisational behaviour. She is a regular at management and public administration conferences and has published in top journals in the field as well as serving as associate editor for European Management Journal, Public Management Review and Journal of Management Inquiry. Her research has been funded by the EU, UKRI, CIMA and Carnegie Universities’ Trust. Currently, Adina is working on three projects on public service ecosystems, risk management, and integrity management and corruption

Professor Dermot Breslin

Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMR

Dermot Breslin is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rennes School of Business, France. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield, UK, Tor Vergata University, Italy, the University of Saarlandes, Germany and Lincoln Business School, UK. His current research focuses on evolutionary approaches in organization studies, organizational learning and creativity. Dermot has been Co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews since 2017, and he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, International Small Business Journal and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. His research has been published in leading business and management journals including International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Work Employment and Society, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, European Management Review and Studies in Higher Education. Before entering academia, Dermot worked in the steel, aluminium and paper industries, in engineering design, operations and sales management.