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John L Hendry
Supernumerary Fellow (Management Studies)
John Hendry is currently Professor of Management at the University of Reading and Head of the University of Reading Business School. From 1990 to 1998 he was Director of the University of Cambridge MBA Course in what is now the Judge Business School and a Professorial Fellow of Girton.
Trained initially as a mathematical physicist, John’s research career has spanned the history and philosophy of science, the history of technology and technology policy, and social and economic studies of business, management and organisation. Recent work has focused on the history and sociology of business and morality, the economics of incompetence, and social and ethical aspects of corporate governance. John’s current research focus is on corruption.
Recent Publications
| 2006 | (John Hendry, Paul Sanderson, Richard Barker and John Roberts) “Owners or traders? Conceptualisations of institutional investors and their relationships with corporate managers”, Human Relations 59: 1101–1132. |
| 2006 | “Educating managers for post-bureaucracy: the role of the humanities”, Management Learning, 37: 267–281. |
| 2005 | “Beyond self-interest: agency theory and the board in a satisficing world”, British Journal of Management, 16: S55-S64. |
| 2004 | Between Enterprise and Ethics: Business and Management in a Bimoral Society. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). |
| 2003 | (John Hendry and David Seidl) “The structure and significance of strategic episodes: social systems theory and the routine practices of strategic change”, Journal of Management Studies 40: 175–196. |
| 2002 | “The principal’s other problems: honest incompetence and management contracts”, Academy of Management Review 27: 98–113. |
Further Selected Publications
| 1984 | The Creation of Quantum mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue |
| 1984 | (ed) Cambridge Physics in the Thirties |
| 1986 | James Clerk Maxwell and the Theory of the Electromagnetic Field |
| 1990 | Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry |
| 1991 | Technological Decision Making in a Social Context: Nuclear Reactor Research and Development in Britain, 1945–1960 |
| 1992 | (joint ed.) European Cases in Strategic Management |
| 1993 | (with John Lawson)Fusion Research in the UK, 1945–1960 |
| 1993 | (joint ed.) Strategic Thinking, Leadership and the Management of Change |
| 1994 | (with Tom Sorrell) Business Ethics |
| 2004 | Between Enterprise and Ethics: Business and Management in a Bimoral Society |
Further information about Professor Hendry is available at http://www.johnhendry.co.uk