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. He was Director of the Graduate School of Business at Strathclyde. Currently Research 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 180 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 Fran Ackermann and Professor John Bryson Visual Strategy Wiley 2014. He has over 18,000 cites to his published work.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and has awards from the Academy of Management, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science, 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
- Fellow of the British Academy of Management
- Recipient
- 2007
- Beale Medal
- Recipient
- 2007
- Goodeve Medal
- Recipient
- 2001
Publications
- 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
- 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
- Elicitation, analysis and mitigation of systemic pandemic risks
- Gonzalez Jose, Eden Colin, Abildsnes Eirik, Hauge Martin, Trentin Monica, Ragazzoni Luca, Berggren Peter, Jonson Carl-Oscar
- 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, pp. 581-596 (2021)
- Improvisation and emergent strategizing : the role of group support systems
- Eden Colin, Ackermann Fran, Vito Vincenzo
- Contemporary Issues in Group Decision and Negotiation - 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2021, Proceedings 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Vol 420 LNBIP, pp. 16-24 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77208-6_2
- Behavioural considerations in group support
- Eden Colin
- Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation (2021) (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6
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