Robert Price

Associate Professor in Business Management

Phone
+44 (0)1473 338588
Email
r.price@uos.ac.uk
School/Directorate
School of Technology, Business and Arts
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Robert Price is an Associate Professor specialising in organisational change, organisational politics and leadership.  He contributes to the delivery of continuing professional development programmes and Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects.  In addition, Robert is Senior Academic Advisor within the university’s Centre for Academic and international Partnerships. He is Chair of the Organisational Studies Track, British Academy of Management.

Robert's main research interests include  follower-leader power dynamics and the role of organisational politics in relation to position, power and politicised conformance.  Robert can supervise PhD students in these areas and is also able to supervise students wishing to undertake research in relation to “wicked problems” and leadership.

He is author of The Politics of Organizational Change (Routledge) and is co-author of Decision Making in Organisations (FT Pitman).

  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2017)
  • MBA: Master of Business Administration (1993)
  • B.Ed (Hons) Business Studies (1986)

  • Managing Strategic Change – MBA
  • Leading and Managing Change – final year undergraduate programmes
  • Senior Academic Advisor – Centre for Academic and International Partnerships, University of Suffolk

  • Power, politicised conformance and organisational change
  • Organisation as clerisy
  • Follower-leader power dynamics

Robert is experienced in developing and delivering continuing professional development programmes for a range of organisations, facilitating Business Breakfasts for local employers, SME Innovation Bridge projects and Entrepreneur Forges.

  • Price, R. (2019) The Politics of Organizational Change, New York: Routledge
  • Lee, D.; Newman, P. and Price, R.(1999) Decision making in Organisations, Harlow: Financial Times Pitman