John Kenneth MAWDSLEY

Associate Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

mawdsley@hec.fr https://jkmawdsley.wixsite.com/johnmawdsley

Biography

John Mawdsley is an associate professor and current department co-chair in the Strategy and Business Policy department at HEC Paris. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary research interests seek to understand the drivers and impacts of strategy and performance in human capital intensive firms relating to those firms' professional workforce and client relationships. More generally, John is interested in topics related to demand-side strategy, the drivers and impacts of relational market ties, strategic human capital, and employee mobility. His Ph.D. dissertation was a finalist for the AOM Wiley Blackwell 2016 Outstanding Dissertation Award (BPS division), and his research has been published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Advances in Strategic Management. John has also contributed to an edited book on the management of professional service firms. His research has been shortlisted for several best conference paper awards and he has served in various elected roles for the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management.

John currently teaches an elective course on strategy and management in professional services, and he teaches corporate strategy in the Executive MBA and PhD programs. He is also the incoming academic director of the Strategic Management MSc program.

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Scientific articles

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Strategic Management Journal, May 2023, vol. 44, n° 5, pp 1254-1291, (in coll. with L. PAOLELLA, R. DURAND)

Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets

Organization Science, March-April 2022, vol. 33, n° 2, pp 518-540, (in coll. with Philipp Meyer-Doyle, O. CHATAIN)

Relational Embeddedness, Breadth of Added Value Opportunities, and Business Growth

Organization Science, July-August 2021, vol. 32, n° 4, pp 1009-1032, (in coll. with D. SOMAYA)

Demand-Side Strategy, Relational Advantage, and Partner-Driven Corporate Scope: The Case for Client-Led Diversification

Strategic Management Journal, July 2018, vol. 39, n° 7, pp 1834-1859, (in coll. with D. SOMAYA)

Employee Mobility and Organizational Outcomes: An Integrative Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

Journal of Management, January 2016, vol. 42, n° 1, pp 85-113, (in coll. with D. SOMAYA)

Chapters in edited books

Firm-specific Human Capital at the Crossroads: A Conversation on Current Issues and Future Directions

Employee Inter- And Intra-Firm Mobility, Tzabbar, D. & Cirillo, B., Advances in Strategic Management, 41 , 55-73

Strategy & Strategic Alignment in Professional Service Firms

The Oxford Handbook Of Professional Service Firms,, Empson, L., Muzio, D, Broschak, J., & Hinings, B., Oxford University Press

Proceedings

“I’m not Working for You!” Mitigating Stigma-by-Association in Hiring

2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2025 , 1 (L. PAOLELLA)

Human Capital and Strategic Foresight: Evidence from Insider Trading

2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2023 , 2023 , 1 (N. Asghar, R. Coff)

Intra-and Inter-Group Dynamics and the Market for Quality: Examining Mobility of Elite Professionals

2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2023 , 2023 , 1 (C. Gabbioneta, D. Muzio)

Betting on Strategic Initiatives!? Human Capital and Insider Trading

2022 AOM conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (N. ASGHAR, R. Coff, P. Meyer-Doyle)

Working papers

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2022

Business Growth in Knowledge-Based Services: How Relationalism Affects Demand Side Growth Opportunities

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Demand-Side Strategy, Relational Advantage and Partner-Driven Corporate Scope: The Case for Client-Led Diversification

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Hiring Expert Talent in a Recession: Targeted Labor Pool Sourcing and Firm Performance

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Resource Reconfiguration in Human-Capital-Intensive Firms