Date: Friday, June 28

Theme: ‘The Future of Management Research: Updating the Agenda’

Room: Founders Hall, Chancellor’s Building

• Professor at the University of Bath School of Management and Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)
• Peter McKiernan, Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Dean of the EURAM College of Fellow
• Katy Mason (TBC), Professor of Markets, Marketing and Management at Lancaster University and President of the British Academy of Management (BAM)

Andrew Crane, Professor at the University of Bath School of Management and Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)

Andrew Crane is a Professor of Business and Society and the director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) at the University of Bath School of Management. He is a multi-award winning author and teacher, as well as being a popular speaker and media commentator.

For the past 25 years, he has been examining the changing roles and responsibilities of the corporation in the global economy. He specialises in issues of corporate social responsibility and business ethics, with a particular focus on modern slavery, the political role of business, cross-sector partnerships, and CSR communication.

With over 100 publications, including books, articles, chapters, and reports, Andrew is one of the most widely-cited researchers in responsible business. His goal is to use the power of academic research to drive positive change in the world.

In addition to his academic roles, Andrew is a member of the Modern Slavery Engagement Forum at the Home Office for the UK Government, a founding member of the Data Strategy Board for TISCreport, and since 2017 part of the Development Committee of the Slavery and Trafficking Risk Template (STRT), a free, open-source industry standard template for companies to manage their supply chain risks.

 

Peter McKiernan, Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Dean of the EURAM College of Fellow

Peter McKiernan joined Strathclyde Business School as a Professor of Management in the Department of Strategy and Organisation in 2011. He has held full-time Professorial positions at the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, and the Sir Walter Murdoch Chair in Management and Governance at Murdoch University, Australia.  Across these institutions, he has held the positions of Dean, Head of School, Head of Group, and Chair of Department. Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, a Masters’s degree in Business Analysis, and a Doctorate in Corporate Strategy.

His main research focus is on how organisations learn about how their future might unfold and how they might prepare their current strategies to cope. Over the years, his research output has covered organisational turnaround, fast-growing SMEs, sector studies (e.g., Jute, Automobiles), and public policy. This research has appeared in top journals in the US and in Europe and has won several journal and conference prizes.

Peter has worked with a range of blue-chip organisations around the world in strategy and marketing e.g., IBM, BP, Philips, Reed-Elsevier, Marks and Spencer. Additionally, he has held many Board positions in the private and public sectors, and chaired those of major public bodies e.g., West Lothian FE College. He has directed a host of scenario planning projects for governments, cities, regions, and organisations on four continents in the private, public and third sectors.

He holds a seven Fellowships from Academic and commercial bodies and has been President of both BAM and EURAM and two periods as the Dean of the Fellows College of the BAM, and in 2021 was elected as the inaugural Dean of the Fellows College of the EURAM. In 2012, he won the CEEMAN ‘Institutional Champion of the Year’.  In 2016, BAM honoured him with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and in 2022, he was honoured with the highest award from the BAM – the ‘Cooper Medal’ for outstanding contribution and leadership.

 

Katy Mason, Professor of Markets, Marketing and Management at Lancaster University and President of the British Academy of Management (BAM)

Katy Mason’s expertise lies in the making and shaping of moral markets. Making moral markets is a particular form of open and collaborative innovation, that aims to co-design markets for the good of people and the planet; infrastructuring an ‘everyone economy’ that (re)uses materials in ways that best protect our planetary boundaries.

Studying the management practices that mobilise the collective and co-ordinated actions that constitute moral markets, Katy has worked with organisations such as Rolls-Royce, Microsoft, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, the Cabinet Office, North Yorkshire County Council, Quickline and Cybermoor. Her research is generating insights into how market actors can effectively work across organisational boundaries, crossing social worlds to collaboratively co-design real-world solutions, making accessible, (re)usable, and valuable innovative goods and services. These cross-boundary connections are helping firms learn how to build a circular economy, one market connection at a time, and are transforming the way markets work for our society and the planet.

Before entering academia, Katy worked as Marketing Executive for a number of blue chip companies. She is currently President of the British Academy of Management, Fellow of the British Academy of Management, Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, Cabinet Office Policy Fellow and Chartered Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. Her work has been published in Journal Management Studies, Organisation Studies, British Journal of Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Long Range Planning and Academy of Management Learning and Education.

 

Alessandro Zattoni, Professor of Corporate strategy and Corporate governance (2015-) at Luiss University and President of EURAM (2022-).
Alessandro have been involved in various roles in Universities and Business Schools. Specifically, he has been the Head of the Department of Business and Management of LUISS University in Rome (2017-2024), the Associate Dean for executive education and life-long learning (2015-17) and a member of the Steering Committee of LUISS Business School (2015-17). Before joining LUISS, he held faculty positions at Bocconi University of Milan and Parthenope University of Naples. He has been professor of Strategy and Corporate governance at SDA Bocconi School of Management (1993-2015), where he coordinated various open and custom programs, has been the Director of the Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management Department (2009-2012) and the Director of the Open Enrolment Programs (2012-2015), and so a member of the Faculty Committee and the Executive Committee of the School.

He played also several roles in academic Societies. At the European Academy of Management (EURAM), he was the co-chair of the corporate governance track (2006-15), the national representative (2012-15) and a member of the Scientific Council (2018-23), and he is currently a Fellow (2019-) and the President (2002-). At the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), he is a board member (November 2019-) and the former President of the Society (2020-2022).

Finally, he covered also editorial roles in some journals. He has been screening editor (2008-13) and co Editor-in-chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review (2013-18). He is currently an Advisory Board Member of CGIR (2019-), an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Management Studies (2012-) and a Consulting Editor of Journal of World Business (2019-).

His major interest of research is corporate governance, with a focus on board of directors, governance codes, and sustainability. He published more than 150 works including books, book chapters, journal articles, and teaching cases. His articles appear in several journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Leadership Quarterly, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management and Governance.