Personal Statement
I am Dean of the Management School here at the University of Liverpool. Prior to taking up my role at ULMS in 2015, I was Associate Dean Research and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Bath School of Management. Previously I was Associate Dean Postgraduate and Director of the Graduate Management School at Lancaster University Management School, where I also held the Professor Sir Roland Smith Chair in Strategic Management and was Director of the Centre for Strategic Management. Following a career as a consultant, I started my academic life at Cranfield as an ESRC teaching fellow in 1992, from where I obtained my PhD. I subsequently spent time at Bayes Business School. I was first promoted to a personal Chair in Strategic Management at Bayes in 2005.

As a Professor in Strategic Management, I am best known for my research on processes of strategy development and strategic change. I have a particular interest is how large corporations can be transformed to both retain and regain competitive advantage, focussing on the nature of the practices, actions and activities of senior executives engaged in corporate renewal, organization transformation and radical restructuring. Building on this research I am also a member of the growing international Strategy-as-Practice research field. I utilise my prior experience as a consultant to work collaboratively with organisations and senior executives on issues of strategic change, to enable my research to advance practitioner as well as theoretical knowledge about strategy and strategic change. My research has been published in top ranked international journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. I also serve on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies and have served on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal and as a co-editor for the British Journal of Management.

I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the British Academy of Management

I was a member of the Business and Management REF 2021 Panel