Masterclasses
Our series of BAM Fellows Masterclasses are delivered by prominent management academics from across the globe each year. These online webinars are an exceptional learning experience, revealing how top academics think about the world, what inspires them, and how they develop and apply their ideas. Where do influential ideas come from? What leads to them to being widely taken up?
During the Masterclasses, our highly renowned speakers explain how their academic and intellectual journeys begun, and how they developed as influential academics in management. There are also opportunities to ask questions and engage directly with the speakers.
BAM Masterclasses are free for BAM members and £50 for non-members. You can sign up to become a member from just £30.
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BAM Fellows Masterclass Series
Our series of BAM Masterclasses are delivered by prominent management theorists from across the globe each year. These online webinars are an exceptional learning experience, revealing how top academics think about the world, what inspires them, and how they develop and apply their ideas. Where do influential ideas come from? What leads to them to being widely taken up?
The Masterclasses provide a platform for attendees to deepen their understanding of key research topics and academic practices. Led by esteemed experts, these sessions are crafted to address the evolving needs of the academic community. The masterclasses foster a collaborative environment where participants can engage with cutting-edge insights, explore contemporary debates, and share best practices. Tailored to support the advancement of academic careers, the masterclasses enable participants to stay at the forefront of research and practice.
Upcoming Masterclasses
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| 1. | TBC, March, 2026 |
TBC |
Professor Palie Smart FBAM, University of Bristol |
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Masterclasses 2025
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Wednesday,12th November,2025 |
Professor Cary Cooper FBAM, University of Manchester |
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| 2 | Wednesday, 18th June, 2025 | BAM Fellows Masterclass: Historical Approaches in Management Research |
Professor Stephanie Decker FBAM, University of Birmingham |
| 3 | Tuesday, 22nd April,2025 | Career Ecosystem Theory: A Foundation for Sustainable Careers |
Professor Yehuda Baruch FBAM, University of Southampton |
| 4. | Wednesday, 12th February,2025 | Theorising from Case Study Research in Management |
Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki FBAM, University of Vienna |
Masterclasses 2024
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Tuesday 30th January,2024
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Professor Rosalie Tung FBAM Profile |
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Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Business Models: Researching into, teaching about, and practising |
Professor Charles Baden-Fuller FBAM Profile |
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Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Professor Jean Bartunek FBAM Profile |
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Tuesday 30th April 2024
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Key Challenges of Process Scholarship within and between Organisations |
Professor Andrew Pettigrew FBAM Profile |
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Tuesday 28th May 2024
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Professor Emmanuel Ogbonna FBAM Profile |
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Tuesday 25th June 2024 |
Professor Howard Thomas FBAM Profile |
Masterclass 2023
7 February 2023 | Organisational becoming: Understanding organisational change as the non-deliberate effect of local practical coping action | Professor Robert Chia
29 March 2023 | Systems psychodynamics and the humanisation of organisation studies | Professor Jennifer Petriglieri
26 April 2023 | Sixty-five years of International Business Theory: Evolving Phenomena, Big Questions, and Grand Challenges | Professor Peter J Buckley OBE FBA
Masterclass 2022
Dr Ana Canhoto
Dr Ana Isabel Canhoto is a Reader in Marketing at Brunel University London, where she the leads the Innovation, Digitalisation and Society research lab. She researches how people use digital technology, and the consequences of that use for businesses and society. Ana has led on the pedagogical use of new technologies, such as creating quasi-simulations for experiential learning. She also runs training workshops for doctoral students and early career academics on how to use social media to develop and promote their work. Ana holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, as well as an MBA from London Business School. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a management consultant in the telecommunications industry, and as a portfolio manager at a leading media and entertainment company, among others.
Prof Shireen Kanji
Shireen Kanji is Professor of Work and Organisation at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. Her work is situated at the intersection of gender, work and social inequality. Her research includes studies of women’s occupational and educational choices and pathways, gender in performance appraisal, self-employment and working hours, for example how long working hours (and overwork) are socially constructed to be a source of women’s unequal position. As part of the team that instigated Brunel’s Masters in Artificial Intelligence Strategy, she designed and now teaches the module on AI, Ethics, Power and Inclusion.
She is a Council Member of the British Society for Population Studies. She was a member of the editorial team of Work, Employment and Society from 2010-2013 and is currently on the editorial board of Industrial Relations Journal. She joined Brunel Business School in 2019, after holding posts at the University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, Basel University and the University of Cambridge. Her work has been widely reported in national and international media, including in The Financial Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Wirtschaftswoche, Time Magazine, The Daily Express, ITV News and BBC News, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and the BBC World Service.
Professor Charles Harvey
Charles Harvey is Professor of Business History and Management at Newcastle University Business School, and Director of the university’s Center for Research on Entrepreneurship, Wealth, and Philanthropy. His research focuses on the historical processes that inform contemporary business practice, entrepreneurial philanthropy, and the exercise of power by elite groups in society. His publications include contributions to the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and the Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Martin Hiebl
Martin Hiebl is Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the University of Siegen (Germany) and Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). He is co-editor of the German practitioner journal "Controlling - Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung" and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals. His research focuses on controlling, risk management, digital transformation, small firms and family businesses, and business research methods.
Professor Suzanne Rivard
Suzanne Rivard is Professor of Information Technology at HEC Montreal and is the HEC Montreal Endowed Chair in Strategic Management of Information Technology. Dr. Rivard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the AIS (Association for Information Systems). She received her Ph.D. from the Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests are resistance to information systems implementation, outsourcing of information systems services, software project risk management, and strategic alignment. Her work has been published in such journals as Communications of the ACM, DataBase, Information and Management, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and others.
She received an honoris causa doctorate from Aix-Marseille Université. The article entitled “A Multi-Level Investigation of Information Technology Outsourcing,” she co-authored with Benoit Aubert, Jean-François Houde, and Michel Patry received the 2012 Best Article Award from the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. The article entitled “A Multilevel Model of Resistance to Information Technology Implementation” co-authored with Liette Lapointe from McGill University received the 2005 Paper of the Year Award from the MIS Quarterly.
Suzanne Rivard is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), a member of the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) editorial board, and a member of the Senior Advisory Board of Information and Organization. She was the Senior Editor for the MIS Quarterly Theory and Review Department from 2010 to 2016. She also served as Senior Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Associate Editor for Information Systems Research and the MIS Quarterly, and member of the editorial board of Systèmes d’information et management.
Professor Yogesh K Dwivedi
Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation and Founding Director of the Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) at the School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK. In addition, he holds a Distinguished Research Professorship at the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune, India. Professor Dwivedi is also currently leading the International Journal of Information Management as its Editor-in-Chief. His research interests are at the interface of Information Systems (IS) and Marketing, focusing on issues related to consumer adoption and diffusion of emerging digital innovations, digital government, and digital and social media marketing particularly in the context of emerging markets. Professor Dwivedi has published more than 500 articles in a range of leading academic journals and conferences that are widely cited (more than 34 thousand times as per Google Scholar). He has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 and 2021 lists from Clarivate Analytics. Professor Dwivedi is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Government Information Quarterly and International Journal of Electronic Government Research, and Senior Editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. More information about Professor Dwivedi can be found at: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/.