Professor Timothy M. Devinney

Timothy Devinney is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Technology, Sydney. Prior to that he was a Professor and Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and Director of the Centre for Corporate Change and the AGSM Executive MBA. Before joining the AGSM he held positions on the faculties of The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University and UCLA and has been a visiting faculty member at numerous universities in Europe (Copenhagen Business School, Humboldt University-Berlin, Wirschaftsuniversitaet Wien, and the Universities of Hamburg, Trier, Konstanz, Ulm & Frankfurt) and Asia (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & City University, Hong Kong) and taught at many others (e.g., CEIBS, Helsinki University of Technology & Helsinki School of Economics). He has published seven books (e.g., Managing the Global Corporation (with J. de la Torré and Y. Doz, 2000) and the forthcoming Knowledge Creation and Innovation Management (with D. Midgley and C. Soo) and The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (with P. Auger and G. Eckhardt)) and more than eighty articles in leading journals including Management Science, the J. of Business, The Academy of Management Review, J. of International Business Studies, Organization Science, California Management Review, Management International Review, J. of Marketing, J. of Management, Long Range Planning, J. of Business Ethics and the Strategic Management Journal. He has presented papers and addresses at more than 200 universities and conferences in the last ten years. In 2008 he was the first recipient in management of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and was Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Timothy is heavily involved in the international networks of scholar. He served as Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. He is Associate Editor of Academy of Management Perspectives, co-editor of the Advances in International Management series (Emerald Publishers), and the head of the International Business & Management Network of SSRN. He operated, jointly with the University of Illinois, the annual Workshop in Theory and Measurement in International Business and ran the 2001 Academy of International Business Conference in Sydney. He was a member of the Executive of ANZAM (Australia New Zealand Academy of Management) and was named a Fellow in 2008. He is on the editorial board of more than 10 of the leading international journals. He is an International Fellow under the auspices of the AIM Initiative in the UK, which gave him a Professorship at London Business School. He is one of the largest recipients of Australia Research Council funding in the last five years having won over $11,000,000 in supported research from the ARC and other organisations.

Timothy has taught in numerous executive programs in Australia, USA, Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Korea, India, China, Turkey and the Netherlands, as well as having worked and consulted with corporations world wide, including Apple Computer, Anadolu (Turkey), Telekom Austria, LG (Seoul), Boral, AT Kearney, GEC-Alsthom, AMP, TMP, GM/Holden, CSR, Mobil, Koppers Industries, SAP, Rolls Royce (UK), SAS Institute, Hanimex/Rabbit Photo, Sabanci Holdings (Turkey), Thomson Publishing, Transfield, and Westfield Holdings—as well as many small Internet startups—e.g., Agribuys (US), Haburi (Denmark), Maconomy (Denmark), and ChateauOnline (France)—and governments and non-profits—e.g., the State Council of the PRC (China), the government of PNG, Amnesty International, The Property Council of Australia, Invest Australia, Australian Manufacturing Council and the City of Sydney, to name only a selection. He was a panel member of the Australian Federal Government’s Research Quality Framework, responsible for the allocation of $600M in annual funding.

Timothy’s degrees are: BSc (Magna Cum Laude – Psychology and Applied Mathematics), Carnegie Mellon University; MA, MBA, PhD (Economics), University of Chicago.

Curriculum Vitae
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Fellow, Academy of International Business
Fellow and Awardee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management (UK)
Distinguished Member (Fellow), ANZAM

Immediate Past Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management
Editor, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), International Business & Management Network
Co-Editor, Advances in International Management
Associate Editor, Academy of Management Perspectives
Representative-at-Large, Global Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society
Director, Century Link Corporation (HK)

Previously
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Fellow (2008)
The Centre for Corporate Change, Director (1999-2006)
ANZMAC, Researcher of the Year (2007)
AGSM, Senior Faculty Research Award (2007)
Department of Education, Science & Technology, Research Quality Framework Panel (Economics, Commerce & Management) (2007)
ANZAM, Executive Committee (2005-2006)
Academy of Management, International Management Division, Chair (2008, Anaheim), Program Chair (2006, Atlanta) and PDW Chair (2005, Honolulu), Executive Committee (2003-2009)
Academy of International Business, Conference Chair (Sydney, 2001), Conference Track Chair: Indianapolis (2007), San Diego (2009)
Advanced Institute of Management (UK), International Fellow (2003-2005)
AGSM Executive MBA, Director (1993-1996)
Brandalytics, Co-Founder & Director

Research interests
International Business, Values, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Consumerism, Corporate Strategy, Choice Modelling and Experimentation, Technology/Knowledge Management