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Professor Timothy Clark is a globally recognized scholar and academic leader in organizational behavior, management ideas, and leadership communication, with extensive contributions to research, teaching, and university governance across the UK, Singapore, and Europe.
Renowned for bridging theory and practice in organizational behavior and management consulting; combines methodological innovation (conversation analysis, qualitative methods) with applied impact in leadership, management education, and knowledge-intensive firms; influential editorial and leadership roles in major journals and academic societies; recognized for advancing management research, training, and policy at international levels.
Focused research areas include Leadership communication in face-to-face and digital contexts; the flow and adoption of management ideas; management fashion and the industry of management ideas; knowledge evolution in consultancy-client relationships; audience perceptions of charismatic oratory; cross-cultural trust and identity in organizations.
Renowned for bridging theory and practice in organizational behavior and management consulting; combines methodological innovation (conversation analysis, qualitative methods) with applied impact in leadership, management education, and knowledge-intensive firms; influential editorial and leadership roles in major journals and academic societies; recognized for advancing management research, training, and policy at international levels.
Focused research areas include Leadership communication in face-to-face and digital contexts; the flow and adoption of management ideas; management fashion and the industry of management ideas; knowledge evolution in consultancy-client relationships; audience perceptions of charismatic oratory; cross-cultural trust and identity in organizations.
Areas of Expertise
Knowledge-intensive firmsManagement ConsultancyManagement Fashion
Past Awarded Grant
- Building group cohesion through leader oratory and perceptions of the impact of speaker practices across different audience groups, Temasek Labs@NTU (Co-I Saifuddin Ahmed, Collaborators: ONG Siow Heng and David Greatbatch), $263,487 (2023-2025).
- Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns), EU COFUND II (Co-I with Tom McLeish (PI) Colin Bain and Lowry McComb (Co-I)) €19,215,117.74 of which €7,686,047.09 was the EU contribution, (2016-2019).
- Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns), EU COFUND (Co-I with Tom McLeish (PI) and Colin Bain (Co-I)), €9,912,558 of which €3,965,023 was the EU contribution, (2011-2015).
- Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative II. ESRC RDI 4 grant, £80,000 (with R. Holt and M. Pidd), 2010-2013.
- Tipping Points: Mathematics, Metaphors and Meanings, Leverhulme Trust Research Programme on Tipping Points, £150,000 (with D. Greatbatch and A. Bentley, part of multi-party bid with total value of £1.7m), 2009-2014.
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- DJ Ketchen Jr, T Clark, M WrightHow to Get Published in the Best Management Journals, 1-8, 2025
- Publishing in special issues [2025]T ClarkHow to Get Published in the Best Management Journals, 270-275, 2025
- DJ Ketchen, T Clark, M WrightEdward Elgar Publishing, 2025
- Subsurface [2024]T ClarkMODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW 119, 2024
- T ClarkEdinburgh University Press, 2024
- Subsurface by Karen Pinkus [2024]T ClarkModern Language Review 119 (4), 555-557, 2024
Education
| 1990 | Ph.D. (Industrial Economics), De Montfort University |
| 1985 |
BA (Hons.) Applied Sociology, University of Leicester |
Current Appointment(s)
| 2019 - Now | Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University |
| 2019 - 2025 | Provost Singapore Management University |
Research Interests
- Leadership Communication and speaker-audience interaction in faceto-face and digital contexts
- Management Ideas as Social Movements
- Management Fashion and the Management Ideas Industry
- Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Books
- Heusinkveld, S., van Grinsven, M., Groß, C, Greatbatch, D. and Clark, T. (2021) The Flow of Management Ideas: Rethinking Management Audiences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Wright, M., Ketchen Jr, D.J. and Clark, T. (2020) How to get published in the best management journals. Aldershot: Edward Elgar (2nd edn.).
- Greatbatch, D. and Clark, T. (2018) Using Conversation Analysis for Business and Management Students. London: Sage.
Articles
- Brammer, S. and Clark, T. (2020) “COVID‐19 and management education: Reflections on challenges, opportunities, and potential futures”, British Journal of Management, 31(3), 453-56.
- Li, S., Clark, T. and Sillince, J. (2017) “Constructing a strategy on the creation of core competencies for African companies”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 204-213.
- Li, S., Easterby-Smith, M., Lyles, M.A. and Clark, T. (2016) ‘Tapping the power of local knowledge: A local-global interactive perspective’, Journal of World Business, 51(4), 641-53.
- Zolfaghari, N., Möllering, G., Clark, T. and Dietz, G. (2016) ‘How do we adopt multiple cultural identities? A multidimensional operationalization of the sources of culture’. European Management Journal, 34(2), 102-13.
- Aldrich, P., Dietz, G., Clark, T. and Hamilton, P. (2015) ‘Establishing HR professionals’ credibility: Evidence from the capital markets and investment banking sector’, Human Resource Management, 54(1), 105–130.
- Groß, C., Heusinkveld, S. and Clark, T. (2015) ‘The active audience? Gurus, management ideas and consumer variability’, British Journal of Management, 26(2), 273–291.
- Bentley, R.A., Maddison, E.J, Ranner, P.H. et al. (2014) ‘Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics’, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2(35), 1-7.
- Clark, T., Wright, M. Iskoujina, Z. and Garnett, P. (2014) ‘The shifting nature of management research: A longitudinal analysis of the content of Journal of Management Studies 1964-2010’, Journal of Management Studies, 51(1), 19-37.
- Clark, T., Wright, M. and Floyd, S (2013) ‘In search of the Impactful and the Interesting – the swings of the pendulum?’, Journal of Management Studies, 50(8), 1358-1373.
- Cooren, F, Kuhn, T., Cornelissen, J.P. and Clark, T. (2011) ‘Communication, organizing and Organisation’, Organisation Studies, 32(9). 1149-1170.
- Clark, T. and Greatbatch, D. (2011) ‘Audience perceptions of charismatic and non-charismatic oratory: The case of management gurus’. The Leadership Quarterly, 22 (1), 22-32.
Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor To
- Leena NANDA (leena.nanda.2021@phdgm.smu.edu.sg), PhD in Business (General Management)