Professor Timothy M Devinney

Professor of Strategy
Member of the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Australian School of Business

BSc Carnegie-Mellon
MA MBA PhD Chicago

AGSM Professorial Research Fellow

Fellow, Academy of International Business
Distinguished Fellow, Australia New Zealand Academy of Management
Fellow and Research Awardee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Immediate Past Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management
Associate Editor, Academy of Management Perspectives
Representative-at-Large, Global Strategy IG, Strategic Management Society
Director, Century Link Corporation (HK)

Previously

Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Fellow (2008)
Director, The Centre for Corporate Change (1999-2006)
ANZMAC, Researcher of the Year (2007)
AGSM, Senior Faculty Research Award (2007)
Department of Education, Science & Technology, Research Quality Framework Panel (Economics, Commerce and Management) (2007)
ANZAM Executive Committee (2005-2006)
International Management Division, Academy of Management (Executive Committee, 2003-2009), Division Chair (2008, Anaheim), Program Chair (2006, Atlanta) and PDW Chair (2005, Honolulu),
Academy of International Business Annual Conference; Chair (Sydney, 2001), Track Chair: Indianapolis (2007), San Diego (2009)
International Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management (UK) (2003-2005)
Director, AGSM Executive MBA (1993-1996)
Co-Founder & Director, Brandalytics

“Using Frontier Analysis to Evaluate Company Performance,” British Journal of Management, forthcoming (with G. Johnson & G. Yip).

“Measuring Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable: Towards Methodological Best Practice,” Journal of Management, forthcoming (with P. Richard, G. Johnson & G. Yip).

“Supply Chain Contract Evolution,” European Management Journal, forthcoming (with G. Benito, K. Bru, T. Coltman & N. Perm-Ajchariyawong).

“The Value of Managerial Beliefs in Turbulent Environments: Managerial Orientation and E-Business Advantage,” Journal of Strategy & Management, forthcoming (with T. Coltman & D. Midgley).

“The Financial Times Business Schools Rankings: What Quality is this Signal of Quality?” European Management Review, forthcoming (with G. Dowling & N. Perm-Ajchariyawong).

“Formative or Reflective Models: Two Applications of Formative Measurement,” Journal of Business Research, 61, 12, December 2008 (with T. Coltman, D. Midgley & S. Venaik).

“Modelling Consumer Choice Behaviour in Space Tourism,” Tourism Management, forthcoming (with G. Crouch, J. Louviere & T. Islam).

“Do Social Product Features Have Value to Consumers?” International Journal of Research in Marketing, 25, 3, September 2008 (with P. Auger, J. Louviere & P. Burke).

“Tourism and Discretionary Income Allocation: Heterogeneity among Households,” Tourism Management, 29, 1, February 2008 (with G. Crouch, S. Dolnicar, T. Hyubers, J. Louviere & H. Oppewal).

“Do Managers Behave the Way Theory Suggests? A Choice Theoretic Examination of Foreign Direct Investment Location Decision Making,” Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 7, December 2007 (with P. Buckley & J. Louviere).

“Do What Consumers Say Matter? The Misalignment of Preferences with Unconstrained Ethical Intentions," Journal of Business Ethics,76, 4, December 2007 (with P. Auger).

“Measuring the Importance of Ethical Consumerism: A Multi-Country Empirical Investigation,” in P. Madsen & J. Hooker (eds.), Controversies in International Corporate Responsibility, Charlottesville VA: The Philosophy Documentation Center, 2007 (with P. Auger & J. Louviere). [This paper is an overview of several published and unpublished studies].

“External Knowledge Acquisition, Creativity and Learning in Organizational Problem Solving,” International Journal of Technology Management, 38, 1/2, 2007 (with D. Midgley and C. Soo).

“E-Business Strategy and Firm Performance,” Journal of Information Technology, 22, 2, May 2007 (with T. Coltman & D. Midgley).

“Discretionary Expenditure and Tourism Consumption,” Journal of Travel Research, 45, 1, February 2007 (with G. Crouch, S. Dolnicar, T. Hyubers, J. Louviere & H. Oppewal).

"To What Extent Do Consumer Ethical Beliefs Differ Across Countries? A Cross-Country Investigation Using Best-Worst Scaling Methodology," Journal of Business Ethics, 70, 3, 2007 (with P. Auger & J. Louviere).

"The Other CSR," Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2006 (with P. Auger, G. Eckhardt & T. Birtchnell). Available through http://www.ssireview.org/ or a open version through EthicsWorld. Listen to a recent Podcast on this research from the Richard Ivey Valuing Sustainability Forum in 2008 (Listen).

"Modularity, Knowledge-flows and B2B Supply Exchanges," California Management Review, 47, 4, 2005 (with P. Richard).

“Dual Paths to Performance: The Impact of Global Pressures on MNC Subsidiary Conduct and Performance,” Journal of International Business Studies, 36, 6, 2005 (with D. Midgley & S. Venaik).

“Consumption Ethics Across Countries,” Consumption, Markets, and Culture, 8, 3, 2005 (Paper and Video) (with G. Eckhardt & R. Belk). View a clip of the associated documentary here.

“Client and Agency Mental Models in Evaluating Advertising,” International Journal of Advertising, 24, 1, 2005 (with M. Collins & G. Dowling).

“Customer Value and Strategic Competence: A Discrete Choice Experiment Approach,” in R. Sanchez and A. Heene (eds.) The Marketing Process in Competence Building and Leveraging, Oxford: Elsevier Pergamon, 2005 (with D. Midgley & J. Brazell).

“Knowledge Creation in Organizations: A Multiple Study Overview,” in J. Davis, E. Subrahmanian & A.Westerberg (eds.) Knowledge Management: Organizational and Technological Dimensions, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005 (with C. Soo & D. Midgley).

“A New Perspective on the Integration-Responsiveness Pressures Confronting Multinational Firms,” Management International Review, 44, SI1, 2004 (with D. Midgley & S. Venaik).

“What Will Consumers Pay for Social Product Features?” J. Business Ethics, 42, 3, 2003 (with P. Auger, J. Louviere & P. Burke).

“Knowledge Management: Philosophy, Process, and Pitfalls,” California Management Review, 44, 4, Summer 2002 (with A. Deering, D. Midgley & C. Soo).

“Keeping E-Business in Perspective,” Communications of the ACM, September 2002 (with T. Coltman, A. Latukefu & D. Midgley).

“E-Business: Revolution, Evolution or Hype?” California Management Review, 44, 1, Fall 2001 (with D. Midgley, T. Coltman & A. Latekefu).

“Multinationals as Flagship Firms,” Academy of Management Review, 26, 3 (July), 2001.

“The Globalization of Innovation: Introduction,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 17, September 2000.

“The Organisational Imperative and the Optimal Performance of the Global Firm: Formalising and Extending the Integration-Responsiveness Framework,” Organization Science, 11, 6, 2000 (with D. Midgley & S. Venaik).

Going Where No Tourist Has Gone Before: The Future Demand for Space Tourism. Sydney: Future Choice Initiative, 2006 (with G. Crouch & J. Louviere).
Leaving Home: Is There a Case for Asian expansion for Australian Banks and Insurers? Sydney: Centre for Corporate Change, 2005 (with O. Young & D. Huang, NM Rothschild).

Customer Relationship Success, Sydney: Centre for Corporate Change, 2004 (with T. Coltman).

Modeling Likely Uptake of Future Technologies: An Information Acceleration Approach, Sydney: Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Internet Technology, 2003 (with T. Coltman & J. Louviere).

The Management of Intellectual Property in Australian Organisations, Sydney: Centre for Corporate Change, 2003 (with A. Liberman, Freehills & CSIRO).

The Strategic Application of E-Intelligence, Sydney: Centre for Corporate Change, 2001 (with T. Coltman & D. Midgley).

“Understanding Institutional Designs Within Marketing Value Systems,” Journal of Marketing, 63, Special Issue, 1999 (with S. Carson, G. John & G. Dowling).

“Paying the Piper an Incentive to Play a Better Tune: Understanding and Resolving Advertiser-Agency Conflicts,” Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 6, 1, Spring 1999 (with G. Dowling).

“Doing What They Say or Saying What They Do? Australian Organizations’ Signals of Performance and Attitudes,” Australian Journal of Management, 24, 1, June 1999 (with B. Kabanoff).

“A Formal Model of Trust Based on Outcomes,” Academy of Management Review, 23, 3, July 1998 (with R. Bhattacharya & M. Pillutla).

The Essence of Corporate Strategy, Allen and Unwin (published 1992; this edition is out of print and now available online; with J. Davis).

European Markets After 1992,Lexington Books (published 1992 but now out of print, with W. Hightower). Click here to review the first three chapters: Chapter 1, Chapters 2 and 3. If you require more information from the book please contact me.

"Agency Contracting and Inside Debt," Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswlrtschaft und Statistik, 129, June 1990 (with Hellmuth Milde).

"Entry and Learning," Management Science,Vol 33, No 6 June 1987.

"Rethinking the Product Portfolio: A Generalized Investment Model," Management Science, Vol 34, No 9, September 1988 (with D. Stewart).

"The Return to Advertising Expenditure," Marketing Letters, 3, May 1992 (with B. Cooil).

"Rationally Determined Irrationality: An Extension of the Thesis of Rationality as Anti-Enthropic," Journal of Economic Psychology, 10, 3, November 1989.
"Rationing in a Theory of the Banking Firm," Springer-Verlag (published 1985 but now out of print,). Click here to review parts of the book. If you require more information from the book please contact me.

"Research Papers" for additional publications, working papers, proposals and activities. Some are linked directly to SSRN. My SSRN Page is here.

"Academic and Corporate Presentations" for additional information on current work and ideas. Includes some video.

"Books, Book Chapters and Proceedings" for miscellaneous, non-journal publications.

"News Coverage and Short Articles" for miscellaneous interviews and rants.

"The Centre for Corporate Change" home page also contains materials of interest although it is mainly an archive.

"China Resources Page" for materials relating to China.