Prof Stephen Cummings

Professor Strategic Management,
Victoria Management School

Introduction

Stephen Cummings is professor of strategy at VMS and visiting professor at MIB, Ecole Nationale des Pont et Chaussees Paris and Ecole Hassania Casablanca, Morocco. He obtained his doctorate from Warwick Business School and is the author of Recreating Strategy (London, 2002), editor of Images of Strategy (Oxford, 2003), and co-author of Microwaving Strategy (Oxford, forthcoming 2005).

He has published on strategy and its links to ethics, history and change in journals such as The Academy of Management Executive, Organization, Deusto Harvard Business Review, Organization Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Organizational Change Management and Business Horizons.

He is the VMS director of executive programmes and has developed programmes for a number of corporations including HSBC, GKN Westland, Philips, The Financial Times, Corus and Prudential.

Qualifications

PhD, Warwick Business School, UK (1999)
BA(Hons) in Classical Studies, Victoria University (1991)
BA in Classical Studies, Victoria University (1990)
BCA in Management and Marketing, Victoria University (1989)

Publications and Presentations

Articles

Cummings, S. and Thanem, T., 'Organisationer Som Organismer', Haften for Kritiska Studier, (2004), pp. 43-55.

Cummings, S. and Angwin, D., 'The Future Shape of Strategy', The Academy of Management Executive, 18, 2 (2004), pp. 21-36.

Cummings, S. and Thanem, T., 'The Ghost in the Organism', Organization Studies, (2003).

Cummings, S. and Thanem, T. 'Organisationer som Organismer', Haften for Kritiska Studier, 2001, pp. 43-55.

Cummings, S. and Tsoukas, H., 'Marginalization and Recovery: The Emergence of Neo-Aristotelian Themes in Management Theory', Organization Studies, 18, 4 (1997)

Brocklesby, J. and Cummings, S., 'OR Beyond the Sandbox', Journal of the Operations Research Society, 48, 4 (1997) pp. 454-457.

Professor John Brocklesby (Author)

Brocklesby, J. and Cummings, S., 'Becoming a Viable System - The Telecom (NZ) Experience', Long Range Planning, 29, 1 (1996), 49-57pp.

Professor John Brocklesby (Author)

Brocklesby, R.J., Cummings, S. & Davies, J., 'Demystifying the Viable Systems Model as a Tool in Organisational Analysis', Asia Pacific Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 12, 1996, pp. 65-86.

Professor John Brocklesby (Author), Professor John Davies (Author)

Cummings, S., 'Pericles of Athens - Drawing from the Essence of Strategic Leadership', Duesto Harvard Business Review, January/February, (1996), pp. 38-44.

Cummings, S., 'Post-modern Organization Theory as the Resurfacing of Forgotten Wisdom', Organization, 3m 2 (1996), pp. 251-268.

Cummings, S. and Brocklesby, J., 'Reconceptualising the Idea of Emancipation in Critical Systems Thinking', Journal of the Operations Research Society, 47, 6 (1996)

Professor John Brocklesby (Author).

Cummings, S. and Brocklesby, J., 'Towards Demokratia - Myth and the Management of Organisational Change in Ancient Athens', Journal of Organisational Change Management, 9, 7 (November 1996).

Professor John Brocklesby (Author).

Cummings, S., 'Centralization and Decentralization: The Never-ending Story of Separation and Betrayal', Scandinavian Journal of Management, 11, 2 (1995), pp. 103-117.

Brocklesby, J. and Cummings, S., 'Combining Hard, Soft and Critical Methodologies in Systems Research: The Cultural Constraints', Systems Research, 12, 3 (1995), pp. 239-245.

Professor John Brocklesby (Author).

Cummings, S., 'De Første Straterger Var Graekerne', Ledelse I Dag , TMI Press: Copenhagen, 16, 4 (1995), pp. 33-37.

Brocklesby, J., Cummings, S. and Davies, J., 'Demystifying the Viable Systems Model as a Tool for Organizational Analysis', Asia Pacific Journal of Operations Research, 12 (1995), pp. 65-86.

Professor John Brocklesby (Author), Professor John Davies (Author).

Cummings, S., 'Pericles of Athens - Drawing from the Essence of Strategic Leadership', Business Horizons, January/February (1995), pp. 22-27.

Cummings, S., 'An Open Letter to Total Systems Intervention and Friends - A Postmodern Remedy to Make Everybody Feel Better', Systems Practice, 7, 5 (1994), pp. 575-587.

Cummings, S. and Davies, J., 'Mission, Vision, Fusion', Long Range Planning, 27, 6 (1994), pp. 147-150. Professor John Davies (Author).

Cummings, S., 'Brief Case: The First strategists', Long Range Planning, 26, 3 (1993), pp. 133-136.

Cummings, S. and Brocklesby, J., 'The Classical System - Organizational Insights Into What Made Periclean Athens Great', Systems Practice, 6, 4 (1993) pp. 335-356. Professor John Brocklesby (Author).

Books/Scholarly Editions

Cummings, S., Recreating Strategy, Sage, London, (2002).

Chapters

Cummings, S., 'Drawing from the Essence of Strategic Leadership', in C. Wagner-Weick (ed), Out of Context: A Creative Approach to Strategic Management, (Thomson, South Western, Mason, 2005), pp. 36-43.

Cummings, S., 'The First Strategists', in De Wit, B. and Meyer, R., Strategy: Process, Content, Context - An International Perspective, 3rd ed, (International Thompson, Minneapolis, 2004), pp. 22-25.

Cummings, S., 'The Resurfacing of Self-Aesthetics as an Alternative Approach to Organizational Ethics', in S. Linstead and H Hopfl (eds), The Aesthetic Organization , Sage: Newbury Park, CA, 2001).

Cummings, S., 'The First Strategists', in B. De Wit and R. Meyer (eds) Strategy: Process, Content, Context - An International Perspective, 2nd ed, (Harper-Collins: Minneapolis/St. Paul, 1998), pp. 24-28.

Cummings, S., 'The First Strategists', in B. De Wit and R. Meyer (eds) Strategy: Process, Content, Context - An International Perspective, (Harper-Collins: Minneapolis/St. Paul, 1994), pp. 6-8.

Edited Collections

Cummings, S. and Wilson D. (eds) Images of Strategy, Blackwell, Oxford, 2003), 450pp.