Charles Baden Fuller

Charles Baden-Fuller is the Centenary Professor of Strategy and leader of the Strategy Group at Cass, ranked Global Top Ten by the Financial Times MSc survey of 2009 and top ten by the Financial Times MBA survey of 2011. He is famous for his strategy insights into the management of mature firms written up in many academic articles and his (coauthored) Harvard Business Press 'Rejuvenating the Mature Business'. He is also well known for his work on networked organisations and the management of young high technology firms, particularly in drug development-biotechnology.

His current research examines Business Models: what they are, how they can be improved and how they can be deployed in an increasingly digitalized world. This work is supported by a team of academics based at Cass Business School, Sussex University, LSE, CREATE-Glasgow, Grenoble EM, and the Wharton School; any by more than £1.5 million of research funding from RCUK, EU and Mack Institute-Wharton School.

Charles Baden-Fuller has undertaken consulting assignments on strategy and mergers for large and small firms, and currently serves as director or advisor to several young high-tech firms. He combines this with being a senior fellow at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Baden-Fuller has published more than 80 academic articles and in the last few years raised more than £4 million for research from the EU, and the UK ESRC and EPSRC. From 1999 to 2010, he was also Editor-in-chief, a leading international strategy journal read by practitioners and academics. His honors include being made an SMS Fellow in 2010. You can read more about him and his work on www.baden-fuller.com and http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/research-and-faculty/centres/centive

Before becoming an academic, he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

Qualifications

BA (Oxon), MA Econ (Cornell) and PhD (LSE).

Fellowships

Senior Fellow, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2000 – 2012

Award

Strategic Management Society (2009) SMS Fellow (Presitguous award)

Expertise

Primary Topics

Hedge FundsInnovation & Creativity International Business Knowledge Management Leadership Management Science Strategic Management Venture Capital

Industries/Professions

• biotechnology
• e-commerce
• financial services
• high technology
• information technology

Research Topics

• Financial and Organisational Innovation in High Technology
• High-Technology: How young firms can grow successfully
• Organisational Innovation and Risk in Hedge Funds
• The effect of connectivity on the performance of hedge funds
• Business Models
• How should we think of Business Models? What is Business Model Innovation?

Books (5)

• Mangematin, V. and Baden-Fuller, C. (Eds.), (2015). Business Models and Modelling Business Models. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-78560-463-8.
• Thomson, N. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2010). Basic Strategy in Context. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell ISBN 978-1-4051-6108-4.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Pitt, M. (1996). Strategic innovation : an international casebook on strategic management. London ISBN 978-0-415-12869-8.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Stopford, J. (1994). Rejuvenating the Mature Business. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 978-0-87584-476-3.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Stopford, J. (1992). Rejuvenating the Mature Business. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08987-5.

Chapters (15)

• Mangematin, V. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2015). Introduction: Business models and modelling business models. (pp. xi–xxii).
• Baden Fuller, C. and Zhang, J. (2008). Knowledge Brokering in High-Tech Start-ups. In Harry Scarbrough, (Ed.), The Evolution of Business Knowledge (pp. 115–136). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922960-4.
• Ferriani, S., Cattani, G. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2007). Fitness determinants in creative industries: A longitudinal study on the Hollywood film-making industry, 1992-2003. Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation: Schumpeterian Legacies (pp. 209–237). ISBN 978-3-540-49464-5.
• Armstrong, D. and Farrell, T. (2006). Introduction. (pp. 3–13). ISBN 978-0-511-62202-1.
• Baden-Fuller, C. and Volberda, H. (2003). Dormant capabilities, complex organisations and renewal. In Sanchez, R. and Heene, A. (Eds.), Knowledge management and organizational competence USA: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-925928-1.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Grant, R.M. (2000). Knowledge and Economic Organisation: an Application to the Analysis of Interfirm Collaboration. In van Krogh, G., Nonaka, I. and Nishiguchi, T. (Eds.), Knowledge Creation: A Source of Value (pp. 113–150). Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-62753-0.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Volberda, H. (1998). Strategic Renewal and Competence Building: Four Dynamic Mechanisms. In Hamel, G., Prahalad, C.K., Thomas, H. and O'Neal, D. (Eds.), Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment (pp. 371–390). Chichester: Wiley.
• Baden-Fuller, C. and Boschetti, C. (1996). Creating competitive advantage through mergers: the lens of the resource based view. In Thomas, H. and O'Neal, D. (Eds.), Strategic integration John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN 978-0-471-95806-2.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Volberda, H. (1996). Strategic Renewal in Large Complex Organisations: A Competence Based View. In Sanchez, R., Heene, A. and Thomas, H. (Eds.), Dynamics of competence-based competition: theory and practice in the new strategic management (pp. 89–110). Oxford: Pergamon. ISBN 978-0-08-042585-6.
• Baden-Fuller, C., Dell'Osso, F. and Stopford, J. (1994). Changing rules of the game in mature industries. In Daems, H. and Thomas, H. (Eds.), Strategic groups, strategic moves and performance Pergamon. ISBN 978-0-08-037768-1.
• Baden-Fuller, C., Porac, J. and Thomas, H. (1994). Competitive groups as cognitive communities. In Daems, H. and Thomas, H. (Eds.), Strategic groups, strategic moves and performance Chichester, UK: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN 978-0-08-037768-1.
• Baden Fuller, C. (1993). The globalization of professional service firms: evidence from four case studies. In Yair Aharoni, (Ed.), Coalitions and competition : the globalization of professional business services (pp. 102–120). London: Routledge.
• Baden Fuller, C. and Stopford, J. (1992). Organisational Strategies for Building Corporate Entrepreneurship. In Lorange, P., Chakravarthy, B., Roos, J. and Van den Ven, A. (Eds.), Implementing Strategic Processes : Learning, Adaptation and Innovation (pp. 43–70). Wiley-Blackwell.
• Baden-Fuller, C. (1990). Competition and Co-operation: Restructuring the UK Steel Castings Industry. Managing Excess Capacity (pp. 145–161). Wiley. ISBN 0-631-17213-0.
• Baden-Fuller, C. Rising Concentration: The UK Grocery Trade 1970-1980. In Tucker, K. and Baden-Fuller, C. (Eds.), Firms and Markets (pp. 63–82). Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0-7099-2446-3.

Conference Papers and Proceedings (14)

• Baden Fuller, C. (2011). Various on Projects, Hedge Funds and Networks. SMS and EGOS Miami and Gottenburg.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2010). Multiple. Academy of Management & EURAM & EGOS Monteal, Lisbon, Rome.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2009). Multiple. Academy of Management & EGOS & Cass Workshops USA and Europe.
• Kamuriwo, S.D. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2007). The Knowledge Building Dilemma of Technology Based New Firms. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2009, Babson College, Boston, USA.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2008). Multiple. Academy of Management and EGOS and JMS Los Angeles, Amsterdam, UK.
• Ferriani, S., Cattani, G. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2008). The relational antecedents of project-entrepreneurship: Individual connectedness, team composition and project performance.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2007). Multiple. Academy of Management and EGOS and Babson Entrepreneurship Philadelphia, USA, Vienna, Madrid.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2006). Multiple. Academy of Management and EGOS and AGSM, Wissenshaft Collegium, Druid, USA, EU, Japan, Australia.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2005). Many Papers. Academy of Management and EGOS and Hitotsubashi USA and EU and Japan.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2004). Multiple Papers on Knowledge Management. Academy of Management New Orleans.
• Baden Fuller, C. (2003). Multiple Papers. AOM and EGOS and SMS US and EU.
• Grant, R.M. and Baden-Fuller, C. (2000). Knowledge and economic organization: An application to the analysis of interfirm collaboration. .
• Wallis, R., Baden-Fuller, C., Kretschmer, M. and Klimis, G.M. (1999). Contested collective administration of intellectual property rights in music: The challenge to the principles of reciprocity and solidarity. .
• Volberda, H.W. and Baden-Fuller, C. (1998). Strategic renewal and competence building: Four dynamic mechanisms. .

Subject/Academic Leadership

• Approx 2006 - present, Subject Leader for Strategy Field
• Approx 1997 - present, University Senator
• 1997 - 2000, University Council, co-responsible for initiating and overseeing buildingof Cass Bunhill Row site
• 1997 - 2001, Research for Cass Business School, Director

Editorial Activity

Long Range Planning, Editor, 1999 – 2010.