Professor John Thompson

 
John Thompson is Roger M Bale Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield and Director of the Business School’s Enterprise Research Network; previous to this he was Head of the Department of Management. He has been a Visiting Professor at Universities in Kuopio, Finland and Auckland, New Zealand and he is currently a Visiting Professor in Darwin, Australia.

John is an active researcher and case writer, focusing on applied strategy and entrepreneurship, mostly in conjunction with organisations. His main research focus is on identifying people with the potential to be entrepreneurs and he has a special interest in enabling entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and in social entrepreneurship.

He is recognised as one of the UK's leading authors of texts on strategic management. The sixth edition of his main textbook, Strategic Management, is scheduled for late 2009, and he has written  a number of books the most recent of which is Enabling Entrepreneurs.

In 2009 John received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.

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