U of A – Oxford – Harvard Royston Greenwood accepts Oxford placement
December 05, 2007
By Karen Baird
Royston Greenwood, Associate Dean, Research, and Telus Professor of Strategic Management
The number of U of A School of Business professors with prestigious teaching appointments has grown to three, with Oxford University bestowing the title of Visiting Professor on Royston Greenwood earlier this month.
“It’s recognition of the international quality of the research we have done here at the U of A,” said Royston, Associate Dean, Research, and Telus Professor of Strategic Management.
He explained that the School’s Centre for Professional Service Firm Management was the first such centre in the world, an initiative that was followed by the Said Business School at Oxford and then by Harvard Business School. “We’ve done more research in this area than anywhere else in the world and it is research that has won awards.”
Colleague David Cooper, CGA Professor of Accountancy, is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford, and Professor Randall Morck, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance, has had Visiting Professor positions at Harvard.
The Visiting Professor role is to work with people in Oxford’s Clifford Chance Centre and develop relationships. Royston will spend up to a month a year for the next three years at Oxford, working with post-doctoral students and faculty in the Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms. “It demonstrates and strengthens the common interests in researching professional service firms. The intention is that this will lead to some joint projects involving faculty and students from there and here.”
Already, Royston is working with Clifford Chance Centre Director Professor Tim Morris, who will visit the U of A School of Business in 2008, on a study about ‘difficult decisions’ in professional service firms. As well, Royston is collaborating with post-doctoral student Mehdi Boussebaa who has just become a post-doctoral student at Oxford. They are examining the global organization of professional service firms. Samantha Fairclough, who spent the last three years at Oxford doing her doctoral studies, has joined the U of A as a postdoctoral student. “The idea is to expand these links and joint research,” said Royston.
He will also travel to England for two weeks in February, to teach institutional theory to doctoral students at Imperial College, London. Royston is collaborating with one of their faculty members, Professor Namrata Malhotra, a U of A School of Business grad, on a paper about the process of radical change in law firms.
For more information, contact:
Royston Greenwood
Professor
Associate Dean Research
School of Business, University of Alberta
780.492.2797
royston.greenwood@ualberta.ca
Karen Baird
Public Affairs Associate
School of Business, University of Alberta
780.492.8695
karen.baird@ualberta.ca