Amanda Goodall
- Leverhulme Fellow
BSc (London School of Economics), PhD (Warwick)
Biography
Amanda works on strategic leadership. Her focus is on leaders of organizations where the core business is expert knowledge, for example in research universities. She has a book on the topic coming out in 2009 - Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars (Princeton University Press). During the first half of 2008 Amanda was a Research Fellow at Cornell University, and she spent the latter part of the year as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Zurich.
Research interests
Leadership; research universities; business schools; knowledge-based organizations.
Research projects
- Humans and Climate Change: Leverhulme Trust, July 2008 - June 2010.
Publications
Journal articles
- Why we Need Experts not Professional Managers as Leaders: The Case Against Professionalizing Management Education. (2010) (under review).
- Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities. Research Policy 38 (2009): 1079-1092.
