Faculty
Professor James Hayton
Pro Dean of External Affairs WBS Executive Office, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group
Biography
James' research focuses on how human resource management practices foster organizations' capacity for entrepreneurship and strategic renewal. In a second stream he focuses on the influence of cultural and psychological factors on entrepreneurial behavior. His research has been published in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Human Resource Management, Organizational Research Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, R&D Management and several other journals and books.
James serves as Editor-in-Chief at Human Resource Management, included in the Financial Times shortlist of influential management journals. He is also an Editor at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management Review, and the Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, and an active member of the Academy of Management. In 2009, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Human Resources Division.
Professor Gerardo Patriotta
Organisation and Human Resource Management Group
Biography
Gerardo Patriotta is a Professor of Organization Studies at the Warwick Business School. His research focuses on organizational sensemaking, particularly in the contexts of crises and breakdowns, transitions between routine and non-routine events, learning from errors, face-to-face interactions, and identity processes. His work has combined sociological and organizational theory to understand the work practices and behaviours of, amongst others, shopfloor operators, courtrooms judges, business consultants, global bank managers, air force pilots, e-markets sellers, chefs, migrant workers, and news workers.
Gerardo’s research has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Relations, Organization Science, and Organization Studies, amongst others. He is the author of Organizational knowledge in the making: how firms create, use, and institutionalize knowledge, published by Oxford University Press.
Gerardo is the past general General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (currently serving as Consulting Editor) and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Studies.
Professor Chris Beer
Strategy & International Business, Professor of Practice
Biography
Chris is a partner at Merryck & Co, the world's foremost business leader mentoring firm. He joined Merryck in 2010 as Managing Director, and then became CEO after leading the MBO the same year.
In January of 2016 he stepped down from the CEO role to focus on international Client Relationships and to spend more time on his mentoring activity and his role at WBS.
Previously Chris led the Executive Search, Selection and Interim Management Practice of Ernst & Young before joining Resources Global Professionals; a Nasdaq listed $1bn company, as a member of the Global Leadership Team; reporting to the Group CEO. He set up their UK and subsequently European Operations. He built and led the business from start-up to employing more than 600 consultants across 12 European countries.
He has led high value engagements that span both multiple boundaries and cultures and has a passion for fostering the highest levels of client service and quality.
Chris has an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School. In 2013 he was appointed as a Professor of Practice at WBS, attached to the Strategy and International Business group. He has a focus on leadership and is Co-Director of the new DBA programme that launched in 2016 at the Shard.