Richard Dunford
BCA, BA (Hons) (Well), Ph.D (ANU)
Professor of Business Strategy and Chair of Discipline
richard.dunford@sydney.edu.au
Room 447
H10 - Storie Dixson Wing Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6586
Fax: +61 2 9036 5378
Professor Richard Dunford is Professor of Business Strategy and Chair of the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2008, Professor Dunford was Professor of Strategic Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, during which time he held the positions of Interim Dean (October 2003-January 2006), Deputy Dean (2006-2007; 2002-2003) and Associate Dean (Academic Programs) (2001-2005). During his time as Dean, MGSM was ranked as No 1 in Australia and Asia, and in the top 50 MBA schools in the world (according to the Economist Intelligence Unit), in the top 40 business schools in the world for the quality of its corporate and executive education (according to the Financial Times), and achieved the international business school quality accreditation EQUIS.
Professor Dunford's previous academic appointments have also included Professor of Management and Head of the Management Discipline at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1994-1997) and Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney (1991-1993). As well as working within the university sector, Professor Dunford has worked in business (the oil industry), government (technology policy).
Professor Dunford is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and was a member of the Excellence in Research, Australia (ERA) Social, Behavioural and Economic panel which in 2010 reviewed the research in these areas at all Australian Universities. He has also been a member of EQUIS accreditation review panels for universities in Asia and Europe.
Professor Dunford's research interests are in the areas of strategic management, organizational design, organizational change and organizational discourse, with a particular focus on innovative business models and new organizational forms. He has received multiple Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants and Linkage Grants and his research has been widely published in leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning and Organization Studies. As well as undertaking research on various aspects of business, managing and organizing, Professor Dunford has provided consulting services on strategy, organizational change and executive education to a wide range of industries in Australasia and South-East Asia.