John Kenneth MAWDSLEY

Assistant Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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

Biography

John Mawdsley 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 strategic human capital, employee mobility, demand-side strategy, and the drivers and impacts of relational market ties. 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. John's research has been shortlisted for several best conference paper awards and he served as a Representative at Large for the Strategic Management Society's Strategic Human Capital Interest Group. John teaches, and coordinates, the Strategic Management core course in the Grande Ecole program.

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Scientific articles

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

Organization Science, Forthcoming, (in coll. with D. SOMAYA)

Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets

Organization Science, Forthcoming, (in coll. with Philipp Meyer-Doyle, O. CHATAIN)

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

Market-Based Drivers of Gender Diversity: The Role of Indirect Client Ties

Relational Ties, Demand-Side Strategy, and the Performance of Knowledge-Based Service Firms

Always Change a Winning Team? Resource Re-Configuring in Human Asset Intensive Firms

Hiring in a Recession? Performance Implications of Countercyclical Human Capital Sourcing

Working papers

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