Professor Andrew H. Van de Ven to give Richard Normann Lecture 2019

Professor Andrew H. Van de Ven from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota will give the Richard Normann Lecture 2019.

This year’s talk, titled Processes of organizational innovation and change stimulated by Richard Normann, takes place at Green Templeton College on Wednesday 13 November at 18:00.

Van de Ven, who is Professor Emeritus at the Carlson School, will review some of the seminal ideas of Richard Normann that stimulated subsequent theory and practice of organizational innovation and change.

These ideas include temporal processes of change, knowledge development, growth stages, social learning, entrepreneurial leadership, and situational organizing.

The Richard Normann Lecture, held annually in Michaelmas term, is a collaborative initiative between Green Templeton and NormannPartners AB, honouring the life and work of the late Richard Normann.

Normann was one of the most profound and sophisticated management thinkers of our time, and the lectures aim to extend his work by furthering insights into strategy, business innovation and change, value co-production, and the service economy.

Van de Ven teaches courses on the management of innovation and change, organizational behaviour, and engaged scholarship research methods. He has co-authored 13 books including 2007’s Engaged Scholarship, which won the 2008 Terry Best Book award from the Academy of Management.

He was President of the Academy of Management from 2000 to 2001, was founding editor of Academy of Management Discoveries from 2013 to 2017, and is now deputy editor of Management and Organization Review.

Last year’s Richard Normann Lecture was given by Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings at HEC Montréal, who spoke on the subject of Process thinking in four modes.

Watch Professor Langley’s lecture below: