Prof Stephen Cummings

Head of School,
Victoria Management School

Introduction

Stephen Cummings is Head of Victoria Management School and Professor of Strategic Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and holds visiting or adjunct positions at Warwick Business School, ENPC Paris, Ecole Hassania Casablanca, the University of Melbourne and Stockholm University. He is the author of a number of books including Recreating Strategy (Sage, 2002), Images of Strategy (Blackwell, 2003), The Strategy Pathfinder (Wiley, 2007) and The Strategy Pathfinder 2: Core Concepts and Live Cases (Wiley, 2011). His book Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation (Wiley, 2010) examines how strategies that create sustainable value require an integrated approach to innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organization. He teaches strategy on the undergraduate and MBA programmes as was awarded ‘Outstanding MBA Teacher for 2008/9’ at Warwick Business School. Stephen is also Academic Director of Executive Programmes for VMS and has developed and taught on executive courses for organizations such as Philips, HSBC, The Financial Times, GKN Westland, Prudential, Wellington City Council, Air Services Australia and IRL.

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)

A selection of recent publications

The relevant past: why the history of management should be critical for our future. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 10/1 (forthcoming) 2011. S. Cummings  and T. Bridgman.

The Strategy Pathfinder 2: Core Concepts and Live Cases. Wiley, Oxford. Angwin, D. Cummings, S. & Smith, C, 2011.

Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation, John Wiley, Oxford & Hoboken, NJ, 2010, Bilton, C. & Cummings, S.

Recreating Strategy (Russian Translation). Humanitarian Centre of the Ukraine, Kiev, 2010, Cummings, S.

The Secrets of Creative Strategy. Strategy, C. Bilton and S. Cummings, 2010, 23: 24-28.

The First Strategists. Strategy: Process, Content, Context - An International Perspective (4th edition). Eds., B. De Wit & R. Meyer. International Thompson, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 24-27, 2010, Cummings, S.

A guide to the future of strategy? The history of Long Range Planning. Long Range Planning. Cummings, S. and Daellenbach, U., 2009.42/2: 234-262. (Winner of Citations of Excellence Top 50 Papers of 2009 award)

Strawman: the Reconfiguration of Max Weber in management textbooks and why it matters. Published Proceedings of Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, August, 2008, Cummings, S. & Bridgman, T. (Winner of best paper, Critical Management Studies Division).

Strategy: Past, Present, Future. Handbook of New Approaches to Management and Organization, Eds. D. Barry & H. Hansen, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 184-194, 2008, Cummings, S.

Shifting Foundations: Redrawing Strategic Management’s Military Heritage. Critical Perspectives on International Business. 2007, 4/1: 41-62. Cummings, S.

Strategy. The Encyclopedia of Management and Organization Studies, Eds. S. Clegg & J.R. Bailey, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1471-76, 2007, Cummings, S.

Organizational Strategy. The Encyclopedia of Management and Organization Studies, Eds. S. Clegg & J.R. Bailey, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1180-1185, 2007, Cummings, S. & Donnelly, S.N.

The Business Strategy Pathfinder. Wiley India, New Delhi. Angwin, D. Cummings, S. & Smith, C, 2007.

M&A as Warfare. Mergers and Acquisitions, Ed. D. Angwin. Wiley, Oxford, 87-115, 2007, Cummings, S. & Riad, S.

Ideas at Work. Irish Journal of Management.. 2007, 28/1. Cummings, S.

The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Micro-cases. Wiley, Oxford. Angwin, D. Cummings, S. & Smith, C, 2007.

Why HR is Increasingly Seen as “Strategic”, Human Resources, 2005, 10/5: 28-30. Cummings, S.

Drawing From the Essence of Strategic Leadership. Out of Context: A Creative Approach to Strategic Management. Ed., C. Wagner-Weick. Thomson South Western, Mason, OH., 36-43, 2005, Cummings, S.

The First Strategists. Strategy: Process, Content, Context - An International Perspective (3rd edition). Eds., B. De Wit & R. Meyer. International Thompson, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 22-25, 2004, Cummings, S.

Images of Strategy. Blackwell, Oxford, 2003, Cummings, S. D. & Wilson, D.W. (Eds.).

The Future Shape of Strategy. The Academy of Management Executive. 2004, 18/2: 21-36. Cummings, S & Angwin, D.

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

The Ghost in the Organism. Organization Studies. 2002, 23/5: 817-839. Cummings, S. & Thanem. T.