- Senior Lecturer, RMIT University
Dr Tim O'Shannassy is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the Department of Business Administration, School of Management. Tim has served three terms in MBA Program Director roles in his 26-year tenure at RMIT. His qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce and Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from University of Melbourne. Tim then completed MBA and PhD degrees at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Tim is managing author of the book Strategic Management: The Challenge of Creating Value (Routledge Publishing). He served as Associate Editor for Journal of Management & Organization from 2012 to 2024 and serves on the Editorial Board of Australian Journal of Management, and Journal of Strategy and Management. In 2018 Tim won the Associate Editor Excellence Award from Journal of Management & Organization and Cambridge University Press. His research and consulting interests are strategy, strategy process, strategic marketing and corporate governance. Tim has published six refereed book chapters, four refereed journal editorials, 23 refereed journal articles and has 25 conference papers published in proceedings for conferences including British Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy. Tim has presented two refereed conference papers at Academy of Management and nine refereed conference papers at Strategic Management Society. His work appears in Journal of Business Research, Frontiers in Public Policy, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Management & Organization, Journal of Strategy and Management, Research in Ethical Issues in Organisations and Singapore Management Review - with strong impact scores on Google Scholar (H-Index 14, 1070 citations) and Scopus (H-Index 7, 158 citations).
Tim coordinates and teaches strategy courses in RMIT University (RMIT) MBA programs. Tim has served on RMIT Academic Board from 2015 to 2017 and from 2020 to the present. Tim started the teaching of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation in the RMIT MBA programs in 2000. He has directed and delivered custom Executive MBA Programs for Ford Motor Company and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, and has consulted to stock exchange listed companies including Melbourne IT Limited and Compumedics Limited.
Tim contributes to the community and sport through his role as President of Dendy Park Tennis Club from 2011 to the present and has worked with Tennis Australia and Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club to prepare a $2.5 million re-development package. He regularly organises Cancer Council of Victoria Charity Tennis Days at the Club. Tim has represented Dendy Park Tennis Club in Tennis Victoria Grade 1 pennant and Bayside Regional Section 1 pennant, and is a veteran of 31 Tennis Victoria pennant tennis seasons. He was made a Life Member of Dendy Park Tennis Club in 2020. Tim is a Life Member of the De La Salle College Malvern Old Collegians Association and was the 1982 Captain of Tennis. Tim's interest in sport and sports management extends to being a member of Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club and the Melbourne Cricket Club.
Tim's media activity includes articles in The Conversation, MBA News and interviews for Australian Financial Review and Human Resources Online.
Experience
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2007–presentSenior Lecturer, RMIT
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1999–2006Lecturer, RMIT
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1997–1997Senior Credit Analyst, Westpac Banking Corporation
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1988–1995Credit Analyst/Manager, ANZ Banking Group Limited
Education
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2005Monash University, Doctor of Philosophy
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1996Monash University, Masters of Business Administration
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1991Melbourne University, Postgraduate Diploma in Economics
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1988Melbourne University, Bachelor of Commerce
Publications
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2021Journal of Management & Organization, Editorial: The Challenges of Strategic Leadership
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2020Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Using Ethics of Governance to Sooth Tensions on Strategic Intent: Artfully Managing an Age Old Source of War in Organizations
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2019Journal of Strategic Marketing, The dramatic breakdown of the market orientation concept in the Pharmaceutical industry: Lessons from Vioxx
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2018Journal of Management & Organization, Editorial: A Research Agenda for Alternative Forms of Corporate Governance in Journal of Management & Organization,
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2017Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Gift giving, guanxi, bribery and corruption challenges in Australia-China business: An ethical tension between the global south and the east
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2017Journal of Management & Organization, Associate Editor reflections on the Progress in and Future of strategic management research in Journal of Management & Organization
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2016Journal of Business Research, Avoiding the "too comfortable in the saddle" syndrome: Obtaining high performance from the chairperson, CEO and inside directors
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2016Strategic Management: The Challenge of Creating Value (3rd Edition),
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2016Journal of Management & Organization, Strategic intent: The literature, the construct and its role in predicting organization performance
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2015Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, The importance of the ethics of governance regime for the corporation and the connection to corporate governance practice
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2015Journal of Management & Organization, Exploring the influence of Chief Executive Officer professional development and work context on organization performance: A multi-theoretic perspective
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2010Journal of Management & Organization, Board and CEO practice in modern strategy-making: How is strategy developed, who is the boss and in what circumstances?
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2001Journal of Management & Organization, Lessons from the evolution of the strategy paradigm
Professional Memberships
- Fellow Institute of Management and Leaders
- Member Strategic Management Society
- Member Academy of Management
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- Location: Melbourne, Australia
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