Dr Chris Smith

Biography/ Background

Having initially qualified as a secondary school teacher my first full-time job was as a clinical psychologist working mainly in the field of adult psychiatry. From there I moved into the business world wherein a brief stint as a senior IR/HR manager was followed by GM/MD roles across a range of industries and settings ending in a Divisional CEO role overseeing a range of companies in the UK, Europe and Australasia. I entered the academic world via Warwick Business School (UK)and joined Adelaide at the beginning of 2004.

Qualifications

DipT(Sec) (Adelaide)
BSc(Hons) (Adelaide)
MSc(Clin Psych) (Surrey)
MBA (Adelaide)
MA (Post Compulsory Education) (Warwick) PhD (Strategy) (Warwick)

Teaching Interests

I teach across a range of areas related to strategic management including business strategy, corporate strategy and strategic change

Research Interests

My research/writing interests mirror my teaching interests except that I am also interested in research/writing on the dynamics of learning and teaching in business related education

 

Angwin, D., Cummings, S. and Smith, C. S. (2007). Strategy Pathfinder, Oxford: Blackwell.

Mackie, S.I., Begg, S.H., Smith, C., and Welsh, M.B. (2006), Realizing the Potential of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, AAPG Bulletin, 90(13) (Supplement). Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association

Mackie, S.I., Begg, S.H., Smith, C., and Welsh, M.B. (2008), “Real World” Decision-Making in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry – Prescriptions for Improvement, APPEA Journal, 23: 329-343

Mackie, S.I., Begg, S.H., Smith, C.S., and Welsh, M.E., 2007, Decision Type: A Key to Realizing the Potential of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, AAPEA Journal, Volume 22, Number 1, pp 307 - 317.   (Best paper award)

Smith, C. S. (2005) ‘Corporate Strategy’ in J. McGee (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management – Strategic Management 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 65-69.

Smith, C. S. (2005) ‘Corporate Styles’ in J. McGee (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management – Strategic Management 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 69-71.

Smith, C. S. (2005) ‘Organizational Structure’ in J. McGee (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management – Strategic Management 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 235-241.

Smith, C. S. (2005) ‘Portfolio Management’ in J. McGee (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management – Strategic Management 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 251-253.

Smith, C. S. (2005) ‘The value of an MBA’ The Graduate, Oct/Nov: 25

Smith, C. S. (2006) ‘MBA – therefore I think’, Asian Legal Business, 6(8): 53.

Smith, C. S. (2007) ‘M & A as Illusion’, in D. Angwin (ed) Images of Mergers and Acquisitions, Oxford: Blackwell 63-86.

Smith, C. S., McGee, J., Thomas, H. & Wilson, D. (2005) ‘Corporate strategy: adding value in multi-business firms’, in J. McGee, H. Thomas and D. Wilson Strategy: Analysis and Practice, London: McGraw-Hill, 337-376.

Smith, C.S. (2003) ‘Strategy as Numbers’, in S. Cummings and D. Wilson (eds.) Images of Strategy. Oxford: Blackwell: 356-82.

Smith, C.S., Gidney, M., Barclay, N. and Rosenfeld, R. (2002) ‘Dominant logics of strategy in Further Education colleges’, Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 7(1): 45-61.

Smith, C.S., Gidney, M., Barclay, N. and Rosenfeld, R. (2002) ‘Linking strategic perspectives and strategy’, Learning and Skills Research. Autumn: 40-41.

Professional Associations

British Psychological Society
Australian Psychological Society
Strategic Management Society (US)
Strategic Planning Society (UK)

Files

• Chris_Smith_5yr_publication_to_Jan_2008.pdf [12.4K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009