Prof Stephen Perkins

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Professor Stephen J. Perkins, Strategy and HRM

Professor Stephen J. Perkins completed his postgraduate education at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (Green Templeton College), where he received a DPHIL for a thesis exploring strategies for managing senior management practise under the rubric of Anglo-American corporate governance principles.

He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Perkins held a series of senior management posts in industry during privatization and internationalization initiatives. He spent a period as a management consultant, building an international profile, as an advisor to state owned and stock market listed companies.

An honorary visiting Professor in the Practise of HRM at the Cass Business School, City University, having been a senior research fellow since 1995, and having taught at University College, University of Oxford, he joined the University of North London in 2000, and was appointed to a chair in Human Resource Management at London Metropolitan University in 2005.

Stephen also serves as an external examiner at the University of Aberystwyth.

Research interests and expertise

Professor Perkins conducts research under the rubric of comparative and international organization and employment studies, with particular emphasis on the interplay of corporate governance, strategy and reward management.

With approaching 100 publications, his writing features in refereed academic journals including