Richard N. Osborn

Biographie de Richard N. Osborn

Dr. Richard N. Osborn is a Distinguished Professor at Wayne State University in the School of Business Administration and formerly a Board of Governors Faculty Fellow. He has received teaching awards at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Wayne State University, and he has also taught at Monash University (Australia), Tulane University, and the University of Washington. He received a DBA from Kent State University after earning an MBA at Washington State University and a BS from India University. With over 175 presentations and publications, he is a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame. Dr. Osborn is a leading authority on international alliances in technology-intensive industries and is co-author of an organization theory text and Basic Organization Behavior (John Wiley & Sons 1995, 1998). He has served as a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Technology Studies, Journal of High Technology Management, The Academy of Management Review, The Journal of Management Review, The Journal of Management and editor of international strategy for the Journal of World Business. He is very active in the Academy of Management, having served a divisional program chair and president, as well as the Academy representative for the International Federation of Scholarly Association of Management. Dr. Osborn's research has been sponsored by the Department of Defense, Ford Motor Company, National Science Foundation, Nissan , and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, among others, In addition to teaching, Dr. Osborn spent a number of years in private industry, including a position as a senior research Scientist with the Battelle Memorial Institute in Seattle, where he worked on improving the safety of commercial nuclear power.