Nada Kakabadse
Ph.D., Professor in Management & Business Research Northampton Business School University College, UK
Nada is currently a Research Professor at the University College Northampton, Business School. Previously, she held position of a Senior Research Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management. Before assuming academic positions, Nada was employed as a Senior Information Technology Officer with the Australian Public Services Department of Employment, Education and Training.
She has worked for international organisations in Scandinavia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for the Canadian Federal Government. Her current areas of interest focus on the IT impact on organisations and society, diversity management, smart sourcing, governance, leadership and boardroom effectiveness. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Computing, a Graduate Diploma in Management Sciences and a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Canberra (Australia), and has earned her PhD in Management at the University of Western Sydney - Nepean (Australia). Her Ph.D. thesis was concerned with "Leadership Philosophies and Organisational Adoption of a New Information Technology". Nada has co-authored five books (with Andrew Kakabadse), Leadership in Government: A Comparative Benchmark Analysis (1998), Essence of Leadership (1999), Creating Futures: Innovative Applications of IS/IT (2000), The Geopolitics of Governance (2001) and Smart Sourcing (2002). She has contributed 36 chapters to international volumes and has published over 80 scholarly and reviewed articles. She is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and editor of the Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. Nada and her co-authors won the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academician in the journal Public Administration Review (PAR) in 2003.
She has worked for international organisations in Scandinavia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for the Canadian Federal Government. Her current areas of interest focus on the IT impact on organisations and society, diversity management, smart sourcing, governance, leadership and boardroom effectiveness. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Computing, a Graduate Diploma in Management Sciences and a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Canberra (Australia), and has earned her PhD in Management at the University of Western Sydney - Nepean (Australia). Her Ph.D. thesis was concerned with "Leadership Philosophies and Organisational Adoption of a New Information Technology". Nada has co-authored five books (with Andrew Kakabadse), Leadership in Government: A Comparative Benchmark Analysis (1998), Essence of Leadership (1999), Creating Futures: Innovative Applications of IS/IT (2000), The Geopolitics of Governance (2001) and Smart Sourcing (2002). She has contributed 36 chapters to international volumes and has published over 80 scholarly and reviewed articles. She is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and editor of the Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. Nada and her co-authors won the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academician in the journal Public Administration Review (PAR) in 2003.