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Roderick Martin (sociologist)

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Roderick Martin FBAM (born 1940) is a British sociologist and retired academic specialising in industrial relations, management and organisation behaviour.

Career

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Born on 18 October 1940, Roderick Martin was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Lancaster and at Balliol College, Oxford.[1] He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Hugh Clegg and Philip Williams; his DPhil was awarded in 1965 for his thesis "The National Minority Movement: a study in the organisation of trade union militancy in the inter-war period".[2] A lecturer at the University of York from 1964 to 1966, Martin returned to Oxford as a lecturer in sociology (1966–69) before being elected a fellow and tutor in politics and sociology at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1969. He remained there until 1984, when he was appointed Professor of Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London. In 1988, he moved to Templeton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow, and then in 1992 he became Professor of Organisation Studies and Director of the Glasgow Business School (the latter appointment lasting until 1996).[1][3] He was subsequently Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Strathclyde,[4] before being appointed Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the School of Management at University of Southampton in 1999. He remained there until 2006, when he became Professor of Management at the Central European University. He retired in 2010. He was a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow for the 2010–11 year, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2014.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Who's Who in Scotland (Carrick, 1994), p. 306.
  2. ^ "The National Minority Movement : a study in the organisation of trade union militancy in the inter-war period", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. ^ The Writers Directory (St. James Press, 1999), p. 1089.
  4. ^ Roderick Martin and Anamaria Cristesco‐Martin, "Industrial relations in transformation: Central and Eastern Europe in 1998", Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 30, no. 4 (November 1999), p. 387, fn. 1.
  5. ^ "New BAM Fellows announced at the BAM2014 Conference", British Academy of Management, 15 October 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2018.