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Fran Ackermann

Fran Ackermann

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Business and Management

D-Index
55
Citations
13388
World Ranking
738
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

Fran Ackermann is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and contributes to research primarily in the fields of Decision Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research involve Complex Systems and Decision Making, Cognitive Science and Mapping, Construction Project Management and Performance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies, Management and Organizational Studies, and Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies.

Recent publications by Fran Ackermann include:

  • Experiences of mixed method OR Practitioners: moving beyond a technical focus to insights relating to modelling teams, 2021, Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Stakeholders in strategy-making, 2024, Journal of strategy and management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ackermann are:

  • Euan S. Harvey
  • Carmen E. Elrick-Barr
  • Johanna S. Zimmerhackel
  • Georgie Hill
  • Julian Clifton

Studies have been published across a range of venues including:

  • Group Decision and Negotiation
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Journal of strategy and management
  • Marine Policy

Among Ackermann's recent papers are works focused on stakeholder dynamics and social and economic values related to marine environments, illustrating an interdisciplinary application of decision sciences to environmental and marine studies. Titles include "Modelling Stakeholder Dynamics for Supporting Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory to Practice" (2021, Group Decision and Negotiation) and "Man-made structures in the marine environment: A review of stakeholders' social and economic values and perceptions" (2021, Environmental Science & Policy).

An award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

  • The analysis of cause maps

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann;Steve Cropper

  • Strategic management of stakeholders : theory and practice

    Fran Ackermann;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

  • Problem structuring methods ‘in the Dock’: Arguing the case for Soft OR

    Fran Ackermann

  • Integrated Support from Problem Structuring through to Alternative Evaluation Using COPE and V·I·S·A

    Valerie Belton;Fran Ackermann;Ian Shepherd

  • Managerial processes: business process that sustain performance

    Umit Sezer Bititci;Fran Ackermann;Aylin Ates;John Davies

  • 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

  • Participants' perceptions on the role of facilitators using Group Decision Support Systems

    Fran Ackermann

  • Modeling for Litigation: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    Fran Ackermann;Colin Eden;Terry Williams

  • The effects of design changes and delays on project costs

    Terence Williams;Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann;Andrew Tait

  • Getting Started with Cognitive Mapping

    Fran Ackermann;Colin Eden;Steve Cropper

  • Analysing and comparing idiographic causal maps

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

  • Reasoning maps for decision aid: an integrated approach for problem-structuring and multi-criteria evaluation

    Gilberto Montibeller;Valerie Belton;Fran Ackermann;Leonardo Ensslin

  • Understanding intuition: the case for two forms of intuition

    Viktor Dörfler;Fran Ackermann

  • Where Next for Problem Structuring Methods

    Colin Eden;Fran Ackermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Eden
Colin Eden University of Strathclyde
John M. Bryson
John M. Bryson University of Minnesota
Terry Williams
Terry Williams University of Hull
Peter E.D. Love
Peter E.D. Love Curtin University
Umit Bititci
Umit Bititci Heriot-Watt University
George P. Richardson
George P. Richardson State University of New York
Jim Smith
Jim Smith Bond University
Zahir Irani
Zahir Irani University of Bradford
Gert-Jan de Vreede
Gert-Jan de Vreede Stevens Institute of Technology
Douglas R. Vogel
Douglas R. Vogel Harbin Institute of Technology

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