Julian Birkinshaw FBA, FAcSS (born 16 October 1964) is a British academic. He is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, where he is the Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of four books on management. ^[1] In February 2024 he was appointed the Dean of Ivey Business School at Western University. He will assume the position starting 1 August 2024. ^[2]

Early life

Julian Birkinshaw earned a BSc in Geology from Durham University, followed by a Master of Business Administration and PhD from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. ^[3]

Career

Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, where he is the Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ^[3]

Birkinshaw is the author of four books on management. His first book, Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm, published in 2000, was reviewed by William G. Egelhoff of Fordham University in the Journal of International Business Studies. ^[4] His fourth book, Becoming a Better Boss: Why Good Management is So Difficult, published in 2013, was reviewed in the Financial Times and the MIT Sloan Management Review. ^{[5] [6]}

Birkinshaw was named the Dean of Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in February 2024. He will officially take on the position by August 2024. ^[7]

Honours

In 2012, Birkinshaw was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). ^[8] In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). ^[9] He is also a Fellow the Academy of International Business, and of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. ^[3]

Works

As an author

• Birkinshaw, Julian (2000). Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN  9780761958093. OCLC  43419533.
• Birkinshaw, Julian (2004). Strategic Management. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN  9781843762782. OCLC  57002489.
• Birkinshaw, Julian (2010). Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass. ISBN  9780470750117. OCLC  522429311.
• Birkinshaw, Julian (2013). Becoming a Better Boss: Why Good Management Is So Difficult. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass. ISBN  9781118645468. OCLC  829739779.

As a co-author

• Birkinshaw, Julian; Crainer, Stuart (2002). Leadership the Sven-Göran Eriksson Way: How to Turn Your Team into Winners. Oxford, UK: Capstone. ISBN  9781841124193. OCLC  50717150.
• Bartlett, Christopher A.; Birkinshaw, Julian; Ghoshal, Sumantra (2004). Transnational Management: Text, Cases, and Readings in Cross-Border Management. Boston, Massachusetts: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN  9780072482768. OCLC  52178385.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Mol, Michael (2008). Giant Steps in Management: Creating Innovations That Change the Way We Work. Harlow, UK: Prentice Hall. ISBN  9780273712923. OCLC  165478923.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Mark, Ken (2015). Key MBA Models: The 60+ Models Every Manager and Business Student Needs to Know. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education. ISBN  9781292016856. OCLC  902986814.

As a co-editor

• Birkinshaw, Julian; Hood, Neil, eds. (1998). Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development. New York City: St. Martin's Press. ISBN  9780333722893. OCLC  38409935.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Hagström, Peter, eds. (2000). The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780198296515. OCLC  42833796.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Ghoshal, Sumantra; Markides, Constantinos C.; Stopford, John M.; Yip, George, eds. (2003). The Future of the Multinational Company. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN  9780470850657. OCLC  51966311.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Piramal, Gita, eds. (2005). Sumantra Ghosal on Management: A Force for Good. Harlow, UK: Prentice Hall. ISBN  9780273701835. OCLC  611576751.
• Birkinshaw, Julian; Gassmann, Oliver; von Zedtwitz, Maximilian, eds. (2008). International management of research and development. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN  9781845424282. OCLC  220003893.

References

External links

• Official website
• Faculty webpage

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