Geoffrey Wood

University of Essex, Essex Business School, Faculty Member

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Professor Geoffrey Wood is Dean and Professor of International Business, at Essex Business School. Previously he was Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He has authored/co-authored/edited sixteen books, and over one hundred and fifty articles in peer-reviewed journals. Previously he was Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He holds honorary positions at Griffith and Monash University in Australia, and Witwatersrand and Nelson Mandela Universities in South Africa. Geoff’s research interests centre on the relationship between institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm level work and employment relations.

Geoffrey Wood is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Management, the Official Journal of the British Academy of Management (BAM). He also serves on the BAM Council

He is also editor of the ABS Journal Ranking list.

He has had numerous research grants, including funding councils (e.g. ESRC), government departments (e.g. US Department of Labour; UK Department of Works and Pensions), charities (e.g. Nuffield Foundation), the labour movement (e.g. the ITF) and the European Union.
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Book Review: Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World 1950-90

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2002

The Institutional Basis for Economic and Social Progress: Perspectives and Policies

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2003

Democratization in Mozambique: Trends and practices

Democratization, 1999

This article explores the nature of party political competition four years after Mozambique'... more This article explores the nature of party political competition four years after Mozambique's first democratic national elections, with particular attention being accorded to the democratization of local government. It commences with an overview of the nature of contemporary party politics in Mozambique. Secondly, the democratization of local government is reviewed. Thirdly, recent political developments are located within the context of major economic reconstruction and escalating corruption. It is concluded that whilst Mozambique does have a stable multi‐party system in the formal sense at least, the substance of genuine multi‐partyism remains elusive, given the near‐total lack of policy alternatives and the proliferation of corruption at the highest levels of political life.

After the Crisis of Financialization: The Making of an Alternative Growth Regime

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Book Review: J. Kelly. Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilization, Collectivism and Long Waves. K. Moody. Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy. B. Nissen. Which Direction for Organized Labour? Essays on Organizing, Outreach and Internal Transformation

African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie, 2004

Book Reviews C. Lane and R. Bachmann, (eds) 1998. Trust within and between organisations.Oxford University Press

African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie, 2001

Crisis, Experimentation and Change: The Case of Private Equity and PTPs

Competition & Change, 2012

ABSTRACT The dominant role played by financial services within liberal market economies, and the ... more ABSTRACT The dominant role played by financial services within liberal market economies, and the 2008 economic crisis, has variously been depicted as the product of regulatory failure, ‘irrational exuberance’, the over-prioritization of shareholder value or as part and parcel of an epochal change in social and economic life. Current regulationist thinking suggests that recent developments represent a long period of systemic experimentation, evolution and change, which dates back to the end of the long boom in the 1970s. In this article, we introduce and discuss current regulationist thinking regarding systemic crisis, evolution and change, and follow on with a more detailed look at the diversity and varied outcomes associated with a key area of the financial services sector, private equity (PE) and public to private buy-outs of listed corporations (PTPs). We have chosen this area because of the critical importance of capital for innovation at the same time as investment horizons have generally become more short term, and the challenges that exist in reconciling these competing needs and agendas. We conclude that, as with any innovation and experiment, the outcomes of private equity are mixed. This would suggest that the emerging financial architecture that will inevitably comprise any return to growth will, in part, incorporate aspects of private equity. Indeed, to the extent that private equity buy-outs involve the acquisition of firms in distress, they may have a positive contribution to make in resolving the problems of recession and financial crisis. The failure of unsustainable experiments does not mean, however, that renewed growth will simply result through natural selection: it depends on continued innovation and experimentation across the entire economy, coupled with relevant formal and informal socio-economic regulation.