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Professor Derek S. Pugh has an international reputation as a writer, teacher, researcher and consultant in the fields of organizational behaviour, international management and doctoral education. He inaugurated and led the Aston Research Programme, a major series of studies on the structure, functioning and performance of organizations, and the effects on the attitudes and behaviour of groups and individuals within them. This began at the University of Aston and later continued at the London Business School and other centres throughout the world. A three-volume collection of all the papers generated from this programme from 1963 to 1997 appeared in 1998. Professor Pugh contributed to the conceptual development of the discipline of Organizational Behaviour in business schools and was appointed the first British Professor of the subject at the London Business School in 1970. Since 1988 he has been Professor of International Management at the Open University Business School (Emeritus Professor from 2000) with his research focusing on international cultural differences in management. He is joint author of a book on the processes involved in getting a PhD and regularly consults on the design of doctoral programmes and the training of research supervisors. Professor Pugh has published 15 books and over 100 papers on management topics for both academic and management audiences. He was the first British invited contributor to Management Laureates, the US series of autobiographical essays by leading academics in the field of management. He has been the recipient of a Festschrift, 'Advances in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh', containing research papers dedicated to him by colleagues and former students. In 2000 he was one of the first three professors in the field of Business and Management Studies to be elected an Academician of the UK Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. |