Stephen Cummings
Academy of Management Scholar Stephen Cummings of Victoria University of Wellington is a professor, associate dean of international and accreditation, co-director of the university’s innovation space The Atom (Te Kahu o Te Ao), and academic lead of the Taiawa Scale Up Hub at Rutherford House.
His research focuses on how historical assumptions can limit innovation. He has coauthored 12 books, including The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management (Palgrave, 2021), A New History of Management (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Strategy Builder (Wiley, 2015), and Indigenous Management: Knowledges & Frameworks (SAGE, 2025).
Academy of Management Scholar Stephen Cummings of Victoria University of Wellington is a professor, associate dean of international and accreditation, co-director of the university’s innovation space The Atom (Te Kahu o Te Ao), and academic lead of the Taiawa Scale Up Hub at Rutherford House.
His research focuses on how historical assumptions can limit innovation. He has coauthored 12 books, including The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management (Palgrave, 2021), A New History of Management (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Strategy Builder (Wiley, 2015), and Indigenous Management: Knowledges & Frameworks (SAGE, 2025).
Cummings teaches strategy and entrepreneurship. He has taught at ENPC Paris, EHTP Casablanca, JIBS Sweden, Peking University, Melbourne Business School, Stockholm University, Trinity College Dublin, Tsinghua University, and Warwick Business School,
and has held fellowships at PKU, Trinity, JIBS, and Copenhagen Business School.
Cummings has advised and developed executive courses for HSBC, The Commerce Commission, The Financial Times, Kordia, and the ANZ. He became New Zealand’s first Academic Fellow of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes, and was Chair of the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management from 2016-2021. In 2023, he was appointed to the International Advisory Board for the Rethinking Entrepreneurship project based at Copenhagen Business School.
- Images of Strategy
- The Relevant Past: Why the History of Management Should Be Critical for Our Future
- The Limits and Possibilities of History: How a Wider, Deeper, and More Engaged Understanding of Business History Can Foster Innovative Thinking
- How Ideology Shapes What We Teach about Authority: A Comparative Analysis of the Presentation of Milgram’s Experiments in Textbooks
- Who Built Maslow’s Pyramid? A History of the Creation of Management Studies’ Most Famous Symbol and Its Implications for Management Education
- Restating the Case: How Revisiting the Development of the Case Method Can Help Us Think Differently About the Future of the Business School
- The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, The Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite, by Duff McDonald. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. 672 pages, hard cover
- How the Multimedia Communication of Strategy Can Enable More Effective Recall and Learning
- From the Editors—New Times, New Histories of the Business School
- From the Editor: Good Days and Gratitude
- Publications Received
- Management’s Troubling Past and Management Studies’ Troubling Present: Reflections on A New History of Management and The Dark Side of Management: A Secret History of Management Theory
- From the Guest Editors: The Legitimacy and Impact of Business Schools—Key Issues and a Research Agenda
- Contracting: A New Form of Professional Practice
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