Roderick Martin was formerly Professor of Management at the Business School and Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, at the University of Oxford, he served as a Fellow (Politics and Sociology) at Trinity College, a Senior Proctor, and a Fellow (Information Management) at Templeton College. He has also been Professor and Director at the Glasgow Business School, University of Glasgow, and at the School of Management, University of Southampton, and a Professor of Industrial Sociology at Imperial College, London. He has authored over 10 books in business management, organizational behaviour, industrial relations, and industrial sociology, and has published over 60 research papers in international journals. He has undertaken extensive consultancy work for private and public sector organizations, including, in the UK, the National Health Service, the Scottish Police College, and the Atomic Energy Authority.