Matthias Kipping
Before joining Schulich in 2006, I held positions at the University of Reading in the UK and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. I have been a visiting professor at universities in France, Italy, Japan, the UK, and Germany (with a Humboldt Research Award at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2019). I am currently associated with Connected Minds at York, the Rethinking Entrepreneurship project at Copenhagen Business School, and have a long-standing connection with Kyoto University in Japan (where I was an invited research fellow funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2023).
For the last three decades, my research has focused on the evolution and roles of management consulting, a topic on which I have published numerous articles and book chapters and co-edited several special issues and volumes, including an Oxford Handbook. My current work is on the rise of IT outsourcing and consulting in India (funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant) and the increasing presence of former consultants in leading positions in business, society and polity. I have also contributed to a resurgence of interest in historical research and methods in management and organization studies (co-authoring an article in the Academy of Management Annals, among others). And I am involved in an ongoing effort to understand and compare the dynamics of industries over time and across geographies, with a workshop at Schulich in 2022 (co-funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant) and a forthcoming Oxford Handbook as the first major output.