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The School of Management is one of five schools within Adelaide University’s College of Business and Law. Led by industry-experienced professionals, world-class academics and renowned researchers, our team of experts bring diverse expertise that shapes dynamic learning environments where innovation, leadership and best practice in management create impact.

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Professor Andrew Beer

Interim Dean, School of Management

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School Leadership Team

Name	Position
Professor Andrew Beer	Dean
Associate Professor Chris Graves	International and Engagement
Professor Sukhbir Sandhu	Research
Professor You-Il Lee	Undergraduate Programs
Professor Peter O’Connor	Post Graduate Programs
Associate Professor Sunny Son	Students

The School has a long and distinguished history of working with world-leading companies and institutions to create more productive and dynamic enterprises. Drawing on Organisational Behaviour, Human Resources, Labour Studies, Social Psychology. Leadership Studies and Political Economy, our academics are global thought leaders with impact in industry, with students and in the advancement of knowledge.

Name	Focus area
Dr Sanjee Perera	Director, Centre For Workplace Excellence
Professor Carol Kulik	Bradley Distinguished Professor, Management Theory, Older Workers
Professor Nicola Pless	Leadership Studies
Professor Sukhbir Sandhu	Sustainability And Future Facing Organisations
Associate Professor Shruti Sardeshmukh	Gender And Entrepreneurship
Dr Xiao Chu	Leadership Studies
Professor Jimmy Donaghue	Workers In Developing Economies, Global Workforce
Dr Haiying Kang	International Human Resource Management

The School of Management is Australia’s leader in research and teaching on family enterprises.  Working in partnership with leading Australian family enterprises and the Family Business Association, the School's work extends across the globe, including India, Japan, Denmark, China, and the USA, and is the Oceania lead for the Step Project Global Consortium.

Name	Focus area
Associate Professor Christopher Graves	Family business in Australia
Professor Paul Steffens	International business
Dr Henry Shi	Strategy and innovation in small and medium sized businesses
Dr Ayoosha Saleem	Psychological basis of family business
Associate Professor Shruti Sardeshmukh	Innovation, entrepreneurship and gender
Associate Professor Danny Soetanto	Entrepreneurship and regional growth
Professor Noel Lindsay	Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor Graciela Corral de Zubielqui	Collaborative innovation, digital technologies and business transformation

Name	Focus area
Dr Dang Nguyen	Project Management
Professor Kannan Govindan	Director, Centre for Sustainable Operations and Resilient Supply Chains
Associate Professor Devika Kannan	Deputy Director, Centre for Sustainable Operations and Resilient Supply Chain
Associate Professor Graciela Corral de Zubielqui	Collaborative innovation, digital technologies and business transformation
Professor Frank Schultmann	Complex project management
Associate Professor Claudine Soosay	Operations and supply chain management
Associate Professor Sajad Fayezi	Resilience, sustainability and governance in global supply chains
Dr Maryam Zomorrodi	Subsistence markets/base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business operations
Dr Richa Gulati	Efficiency in project management, soft skills and leadership
Dr Shadi Shayan	Construction and project management
Associate Professor Larissa Statsenko	Complex project management, value chain and process optimisation

Sports and recreation management is a fast growing sector of the economy and a rapidly-evolving intellectual domain. The School works in partnership with leading-edge national teams – such as the Adelaide Crows – across teaching and research. It also hosts CERM-PI, an industry-facing research service with a pedigree stretching back more than 30 years.

Name	Position
Professor Ian O’Boyle	Director, CERM PI
Dr Sarah Chua	Business
Dr Jamie Cleland	Senior Lecturer, Sports Management
Dr Nick Takos	Senior Lecturer, Sports Management
Mr Ollie Townson	Business Development Manager, CERM PI.
Dr Duncan Murray	Senior Lecturer, Sport and Leisure
Mr Gavin Colville	Lecturer, Sport and Recreational Management

Our research tackles economic, policy and social challenges in global food, water and environmental systems, focusing on innovation, health, resilience and development, while partnering with industry, government and policymakers for impact.

Name	Focus area
Professor You-Il Lee	Business in Korea and parts of East Asia
Dr Boram Lee	Festivals and arts management
Professor Ying Zhu	International business in health, ageing and services
Professor Hussain Rammal	Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy
Dr Chanaka Wijewardena	International Business
Dr Tarikul Islam	Organisational capabilities in the internationalisation of emerging-economy supplier firms
Professor Susan Freeman	International Management
Dr Rajeev Kamineni	Intersection of Entrepreneurship and creative arts
Dr Olga Muzychenko	Cross-Cultural Management, Entrepreneurship and International Business
Associate Professor Gary Bowman	The intersection of international business, strategy and risk

Tourism and event management at Adelaide University is consistently ranked in the ranked in the top 50 globally on the QS ranking. Work in this domain spans a wide range of issues of academic and industry interest: forecasting future demand, understanding how to better change tourism behaviour to achieve sustainability aspirations, global shifts and the impact of new technologies.

Name	Focus area
Associate Professor Sunny Son	Event management, place making
Professor Rumi Ramkissoon	Tourism
Associate Professor Rob Hallak	Director, Centre For Enterprise Dynamics In Global Environments
Associate Professor Craig Lee	Entrepreneurship And Innovation In Hospitality And Tourism
Dr Chris Krolikowski	Tourism, Events And Place-Based Development
Dr Boram Lee	The Valuation Of Arts And Culture, Creative Fundraising
Associate Professor Skye Akbar	The Wellbeing Of Local Peoples

Establishing and growing new entrepreneurial firms is critical in contemporary economies: opening a pathway to technology take-up, building workforce capacity and adding resilience to communities. Our research works with partners within the university (ThincLab, AUCBG) and internationally to advance the success of emerging firms and the economies they support.

Name	Focus area
Professor Noel Lindsay	Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor Danny Soetanto	Entrepreneurship
Professor Allan O’Connor	Enterprise dynamics
Dr Manjula Dissanayake	Entrepreneurial learning
Dr Rajeev Kamineni	Entrepreneurial learning
Professor Paul Steffens	Entrepreneurial learning

The School of Management recognises that increasing public scrutiny, changing technologies and growing regulation mean that the challenges of business governance have neve been greater, while the need for impactful strategy has never been more acute. The School partners with the Australian Institute of Company Directors and others to ensure its position at the forefront of global practice and research, and that includes embedding industry credentials into our MBA.

Name	Focus area
Professor Peter O’Connor	The Use Of Technology In Online Retailing And Marketing
Associate Professor Gary Bowman	The Use Of Technology In Online Retailing And Marketing
Dr Tracey Dodd	Governance And Climate Policy
Ms Lorraine Caruso	Corporate Boards And The Workforce
Dr Samir Shrivasta	Organisational Learning And Responses During Accidents And Disasters
Professor Susan Freeman	International Business
Professor Ying Zhu	Governance Of Service Industries
Dr Saras Sastrowardoyo	Small-World Social Network Structure
Professor Hussain Rammal	Small-World Social Network Structure
Associate Professor Jonathan Baker	Markets, Strategy And Social Impact