Richard Whipp is a Professor at Cardiff Business School and a Pro Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University.
His MA is from Cambridge and his PhD from Warwick University. During the early part of his career he specialised in the historical study of industrial organisation, publishing in journals such as Past and Present and the International Review of Social History.
He subsequenty taught and researched at Aston Management Centre and Warwick Business School and held visiting positions at Uppsala University, the Helsinki School of Economics and the LSE.His book publications include: Innovation and the Auto Industry, Patterns of Labour, Managing Change for Competitive Success, and Managing Residential Child Care: A Managed Service. His current research centres on the temporal aspects of management and is reflected in the volume Making Time published by Oxford University Press. He teaches on a number of specialist courses on strategic change. He was jointly awarded the Thorelli Prize for his work with Richard Whittington on implementation.
Richard Whipp chaired the panels which produced the Training Guidelines for, and conducted the inaugural recognition exercise arising from, the ESRC's1+3 model for PhD programmes in Business and Management. He completed three years as the chair of the British Academy of Management. He also served three terms as an Academic Advisor to the Research Liaison Group at the UK Department of Health. In 2000 he was a founder member of the steering group responsible for the creation of the European Academy of Management . In 2001 he led the panel of international referees appointed to assess the LIIKE Research Programme of the Academy of Finland.
He has acted as a consultant and advisor to a variety of organisations, including the headquarters of BP, the Childrens Society, CIBA-GEIGY and Norwich Union.