Professor Jonathan Michie

Jonathan is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange at Oxford, where he is Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg – one of the largest and most international graduate colleges.

From 2004-2008 Jonathan was Director of Birmingham Business School and a member of Council at the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor of Management; from 1997-2004 he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London where he was Head of the School of Management & Organisational Psychology; and from 1992-1997 he was a University Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where he was also a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College and a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Business Research.

Jonathan is a member of Council of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS); Member of Enterprise and Skills Strategic Advisory Committee at Hefce; Council Member of the Academy of Social Sciences; and a Director of Mutuo, a think-tank for the co-operative and mutual sector. He is an editor of several academic journals.

Research

Jonathan has researched on Human Resource Management and organisational performance, High Commitment Work Systems and innovation, and employee share ownership and employee motivation.  In 2006 he secured £3.6m DTI/HEIF4 funding to establish the innovationXchange (www.ixc-uk.com), tasked with enhancing co-operation between companies, universities and other organisations to promote innovation.

Jonathan is Director of the Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business which is hosting the Government-backed 2010-2012 Commission on Ownership (see http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/091215.html).

Publications

Recent publications include:

Articles:

  • ‘Promoting Corporate Diversity in the Financial Services Sector’, Policy Studies, Vol 32, Issue 4, 2011, pp. 309-23.
  • ‘Global restructuring and the auto industry’ (with D. Bailey, A. de Ruyter, and P Tyler), Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol 3, Issue 3, November 2010, pp. 311-318.
  • ‘Converting Failed Financial Institutions into Mutual Organisations’ (with David T. Llewellyn)  Journal of Social Entrepreneurship Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2010, pp. 146-170.
  • ‘Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives’ (with C. Christopherson and M. Tyler) Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society vol 3,  2010, pp. 3-10
  • ‘Innovation, Networks and Knowledge Exchange’ (with C. Christopherson and M. Kitson), Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008, pp. 165-173
  • ‘Business Strategy, Human Resources, Labour Market Flexibility, and Competitive Advantage’ (with M. Sheehan), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005, pp. 448-468
  • ‘Labour Market Flexibility, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance’ (with M. Sheehan-Quinn), British Journal of Management, Vo. 12(4), 2001, pp. 287-306

Reports:

  • ‘A Mutual Health Service’ (with C. Ham and C. Mills). Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, March 2010.

Books:

  • The Political Economy of the Environment: an interdisciplinary approach, (editor, with S. Dietz and C. Oughton), Routledge, 2011.
  • The Handbook of Globalisation (editor), Edward Elgar, 2003. Updated 2011
  • Systems of Production: markets, organisations and performance (editor, with B. Burchell, S. Deakin and J. Rubery), Routledge, 2003
  • Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences (editor), Routledge and Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
  • The Political Economy of Competitiveness: Essays on employment, public policy and corporate performance, (with M. Kitson), Routledge, 2000
Jonathan Michie

Category

  • Research fellow

College affiliation

  • Kellogg College

Position

  • Senior Research Fellow

Research groups

  • SKOPE

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