Prof. Tim Edwards

Honorary Conference Chair, Dean of Cardiff Business School

Tim Edwards started as Dean at Cardiff Business School in September 2024. Before that he was Pro-Dean Research, Impact and Innovation at the Business School and is a Co-Director of Cardiff University’s Digital Transformation Innovation Institute. His priorities in the Dean role are to embed the School’s Public Value strategy; enhance the student and staff experience; create space for research, scholarship, impact and engagement; and, to ensure the School achieves triple crown accreditation.

Tim is also a Professor of Organisational and Innovation Analysis and his research can be viewed in relation to four key themes: organisational and institutional change; critical management theory with a particular interest in a Critical Realist ontology; entrepreneurship and human reflexivity. He has published in journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Organisation, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Management Reviews, Management Learning and European Management Review. He has been an Associate Editor for two world leading journals including Organisation and International Journal of Management Reviews and has been an external examiner for the Executive MBA at Oxford University’s Said Business School.