Keynote Speakers
Chris Brewster
Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, in the UK
Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, in the UK.
He had substantial experience as a practitioner, being successively a steeplejack, a trade union official, a civil servant, what would now be called an HRM specialist in the construction and air transport industries, a journalist, and a management consultant, and gained his doctorate from the London School of Economics before becoming an academic. He continues to offer consultancy advice to private, government, and third sector organizations.
He researches, with colleagues from around the world, in the field of international and comparative HRM. His current interests include all aspects of global mobility, particularly the management of expatriates, migrants, and refugees; understanding differences in HRM across countries, the reasons behind them, and how multinational enterprises cope; and arguing for a less elitist approach to human resource management.
Chris is a prolific author and, with colleagues, has published more than thirty books, well over a hundred book chapters, and more than three hundred refereed articles. He reviews for several leading scholarly journals. He has taught and given presentations in many countries around the world. In 2002, Chris was awarded the Georges Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resource management. In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa, Finland.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Full Professor and heads the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Mayrhofer is Full Professor and heads the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria. He previously had full-time positions at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
He conducts research in comparative international human resource management and work careers, spirituality, management and religion, and systems theory and management and has received national and international awards for outstanding research and service to the academic community. He authored, co-authored and co-edited 36 books as well as more than 170 book chapters and 100 peer reviewed articles.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer is a member of editorial or advisory boards of several international journals and research centres. His assignments at all levels of teaching and his role as visiting scholar have led him to many universities around the globe. He regularly consults to both private and public sector organisations and conducts trainings in HRM, leadership, teams, and self-development, partially by outdoor training/sailing (www.championSHIPs.at).
Haridimos Tsoukas
The Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, Department of Business and Public Administration, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, UK
Haridimos (Hari) Tsoukas’s work has contributed to understanding organizations as knowledge and learning systems, advancing process perspectives on organizational phenomena, and exploring practical reason, reflective practice, and managerial judgement. Drawing on insights from philosophy, particularly the work of Aristotle, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, his research has helped shape contemporary debates in organization theory, organizational learning, strategic management, and management scholarship more broadly.
He has authored and edited numerous books and published extensively in leading international journals of organizational and management research.
Hari has served as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies and Co-editor of Organization and is Co-editor of the Oxford University Press book series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies. He is also co-founder and co-organizer of the International Symposium of Process Organization Studies and the Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies. He is the author of several books, including: Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Humanities about Moral Risk-Taking, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2024; Philosophical Organization Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019); Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2005).
His contributions have been recognized through national and international distinctions, including the James G. March Prize by EGOS (2020), the Prix Roger-Charbonneau by HEC Montréal (2017), the Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award from the Academy of Management (2016), the Distinguished Researcher Award of the Cypriot Research Promotion Foundation (2016), and the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) higher doctorate by the University of Warwick (2014). He is a Regular Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, and an International Fellow of the British Academy.
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