2024 MOC Distinguished Scholar
Dr. Gerard P. Hodgkinson
Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School. From 2017-2022 he was the Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Humanities, and from September 2016-October 2017 he served as Deputy Head of the Business School. Following a highly successful five-year term of office in his Vice-Dean role, Professor Hodgkinson recently completed a two-year period of study leave.
An elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management, British Psychological Society, Chartered Management Institute, Royal Society of Arts, and the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, for eight years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (1999 - 2006) and for 11 years, with J. Kevin Ford (Department of Psychology, Michigan State University), he co-edited the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (latterly incorporated into the Journal of Organizational Behavior as its Annual Review Issue). More recently, (2016-2020) he served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and he currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Futures and Foresight Science, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal.
From 2002-2006 Professor Hodgkinson was a member of the Grants Board of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has served two terms as a member of the Executive Committee of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the (US) Academy of Management. From 2002-2005 he served as the MOC Division's International Representative at Large. In a five-year rotational term of office, he served as the MOC Division's Professional Development Workshop's Chair (2007-2008), Program Chair (2008-2009), Division Chair Elect (2009-2010), Division Chair (2010-2011) and Past Division Chair (2011-2012).
From 2004-2007 his research was supported through the competitive award of a Senior Fellowship of the UK ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research (£505,245.56). The (co-)author of more than 150 scholarly publications, an earlier version of his 2011 article with his Manchester-based colleague Professor Mark Healey, on the psychological foundations of strategic adaptation (dynamic capabilities), which was published in Strategic Management Journal, won the Business Policy and Strategy Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago, IL).