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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
65
Citations
20337
World Ranking
397
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Colin Eden is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Decision Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of topics such as Complex Systems and Decision Making, Management and Organizational Studies, Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies, Construction Project Management and Performance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Organizational Strategy and Culture, and Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health.

Recent publications by Colin Eden include:

  • Modelling Stakeholder Dynamics for Supporting Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory to Practice, 2021, published in Group Decision and Negotiation
  • Stakeholders in strategy-making, 2024, published in Journal of strategy and management
  • The utilization of an integrated technology platform in a commercial research setting captures individual pig data for improved management strategies, 2024, presented at AASV Annual Meeting

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Fran Ackermann (3 joint works)
  • José J. González (2 joint works)
  • Peter McKiernan (1 joint work)
  • Vincenzo L. Vito (1 joint work)
  • Gloria L. Krahn (1 joint work)

Colin Eden's work is often published in venues such as Group Decision and Negotiation, Journal of strategy and management, and the AASV Annual Meeting. The research contributions reflect a focus on decision-making processes, strategy formulation, and the integration of technology in management environments.

Best Publications

  • Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

  • Action Research for Management Research

    Colin Eden;Christine Huxham

  • The analysis of cause maps

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann;Steve Cropper

  • Messing About in Problems: An Informal Structured Approach to Their Identification and Management

    Colin Eden;Sue Jones;David Sims

  • ON THE NATURE OF COGNITIVE MAPS

    Colin Eden

  • Strategic management of stakeholders : theory and practice

    Fran Ackermann;Colin Eden

  • Analyzing cognitive maps to help structure issues or problems

    Colin Eden

  • The Challenge of Collaborative Governance

    Chris Huxham;S. Vangen;C. Huxham;C. Eden

  • Action research for the study of organizations

    Colin Eden;Christine Huxham

  • Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work?

    Igor Pyrko;Viktor Dörfler;Colin Eden

  • Putting the Resource-Based View of Strategy and Distinctive Competencies to Work in Public Organizations

    John M. Bryson;Fran Ackermann;Colin Eden

  • Cognitive mapping expert views for policy analysis in the public sector

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

  • Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results

    J.M. Bryson;F. Ackermann;C. Eden;C.B. Finn

  • SODA - The principles

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

  • Cognitive mapping and problem structuring for system dynamics model building

    Colin Eden

  • Thinking in organizations

    Colin Eden;Sue Jones;David Sims

  • The Negotiation of Purpose in Multi‐Organizational Collaborative Groups

    Colin Eden;Chris Huxham

  • SODA - journey making and mapping in practice

    F. Ackermann;C. Eden;J. Rosenhead;J. Mingers

  • The role of feedback dynamics in disruption and delay on the nature of disruption and delay (D&D) in major projects

    Colin Eden;Terence Williams;Fran Ackermann;Susan Howick

  • Modeling for Litigation: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    Fran Ackermann;Colin Eden;Terry Williams

  • The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop - the Northern Ireland case

    Colin Eden

Frequent Co-Authors

Fran Ackermann
Fran Ackermann Curtin University
John M. Bryson
John M. Bryson University of Minnesota
Terry Williams
Terry Williams University of Hull
George P. Richardson
George P. Richardson State University of New York
Chris Huxham
Chris Huxham University of Strathclyde
D. Marc Kilgour
D. Marc Kilgour Wilfrid Laurier University
Jay F. Nunamaker
Jay F. Nunamaker University of Arizona
John Mingers
John Mingers University of Kent
Peter Checkland
Peter Checkland Lancaster University
Cynthia Hardy
Cynthia Hardy University of Melbourne

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