Professor Colin Eden
Emeritus Professor
Management Science
Personal statement
Has a background in the engineering industry as an operational researcher, operational research manager, and then in management consulting before joining the Management School at Bath University. At Strathclyde Business School he was Head of the Department of Management Science for m10 years and then Director of the Graduate School of Business. Currently Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde Business School.
Major research interests are into the relationship between operational decision making practices and their strategic consequences; the processes of strategy making in senior management teams; the use of group decision support in the analysis and making of strategy; multi-organizational collaboration; systemic risk assessment and management; and the modelling of the behaviour of large projects disruptions and delays, including issues of the dynamics of productivity changes, risk systemicity and learning curves.
Author of 12 books and over 200 scholarly articles in management science, project management, and strategic management. His most recent books are: with Professor Fran Ackermann Making Strategy: Mapping Out Strategic Success Sage 2012, and with Marc Kilgour Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation 2021. He has over 27,000 cites to his published work.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and past Dean of the Fellows. He has awards from the Academy of Management, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the Operational Research Society.
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation
- Recipient
- 2017
- Dean of the Fellows College British Academy of Management
- Recipient
- 2013
- INFORMS GDN Section Award - Lifetime Achievement
- Recipient
- 2008
- Beale Medal
- Recipient
- 2007
- Fellow of the British Academy of Management
- Recipient
- 2007
- Goodeve Medal
- Recipient
- 2001
Publications
- Supporting a good client/architetct relationship and outcome
- Eden Colin, Roithmayr Robert
- Membranes for Structures - Fundamentals (2025) (2025)
- Stakeholders in strategy making
- Ackermann Fran, Eden Colin, McKiernan Peter
- Journal of Strategy and Management Vol 17, pp. 282-296 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-11-2023-0280
- The strategic management of disaster risk mitigation
- Eden Colin, Gonzalez Jose J
- Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction 7th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Vol 672, pp. 3-19 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34207-3_1
- Understanding and Managing Pandemic-Related Risks to the Norwegian Health and Social Care System Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Eden Colin, Gonzalez Jose
- Addressing Complex and Cross-Boundary Challenges in Government The Value of Strategy Mapping (2023) (2023)
- Insights from the Covid-19 pandemic for systemic risk assessment and management
- Gonzalez Jose J, Eden Colin
- Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction The 6th IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Vol 638, pp. 121-138 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04170-9_9
- Modelling stakeholder dynamics for supporting group decision and negotiation : theory to practice
- Eden Colin, Ackermann Fran
- Group Decision and Negotiation Vol 30, pp. 1001-1025 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-021-09745-y
Professional Activities
- BAM-ESRC series 'Deriving Research Output from Enterprise Activities'
- Participant
- 2009
- Associate Editor, Omega, GDN
- Editor
- 2009
Projects
- Hot Spots for Knowledge Sharing in Healthcare
- Dorfler, Viktor (Principal Investigator) Eden, Colin (Co-investigator) Pyrko, Igor (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2011 - 10-Jan-2014
- Grandmaster Project 1
- Dorfler, Viktor (Principal Investigator) Eden, Colin (Co-investigator)
- This project explores the cognitive complexity of people at the highest level of knowledge. The background to the project is a conceptual model of knowledge levels which identifies the highest level of knowledge as 'Grandmaster' level. The underlying assumption of the project is that people who got awarded the highest prize in their respective fields, such as the Nobel Prize, achieved the highest level of knowledge in their discipline - they are grandmasters.
- 01-Jan-2009 - 30-Jan-2015
Contact
Professor
Colin
Eden
Emeritus Professor
Management Science
Email: colin.eden@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted