Prof. Richard Croucher
Middlesex University Business School, United Kingdom
Address:
Middlesex University Business School,
United Kingdom,
e-mail:
r.croucher@mdx.ac.uk.
Work experience:
1976 – 1996:
Organising Tutor, Workers’ Educational Association (WEA).
1981 – 1986:
Conducted international education programmes for French union confederation CFDT, and for German central confederation DGB.
1986 – 1996:
WEA team member for development of a national system of membership education for Britain’s largest union, UNISON.
1996 – 1997:
Director, Oxford Regional Open College Network.
1997 – 2002:
Lecturer in the HR group at Cranfield.
1997-2007:
Conducted extensive program of education designed to facilitate the re-structuring trade unions in the Russian-speaking world, in conjunction with six Global Union Federations.
since May 1999:
Visiting Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Clermont-Ferrand, Programme Mastère, Gestion des Ressources Humaines en Europe.
2002 – 2005:
Senior Research Fellow, Human Resource Research Centre, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University.
since June 2005:
Visiting Professor, Cranfield School of Management
since June 2005:
Director of Research and Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, Middlesex University Business School, London, UK
Research interests:
Institutional theory; historical approaches; Eastern Europe; international employment relations.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered:
Human resource management, international human resource management, management, employment relations.
Scientific activities and results:
In 2009 together with Elizabeth Cotton published a book Global Unions, Global Business, (Middlesex University Press, London), pp.160. Second edition published by Libri Publishing, 2011.
He is author of the following books: We Refuse to Starve in Silence. A History of the National Unemployed Workers Movement, 1920-1946. (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1987), pp. 216.
Engineers at War, 1939-1945 (Merlin Press, London, 1982), pp. 400; Economic Development and Trade Unions in a Transitional Context: The Romanian Case (Labour and Society International, 1998) [Also published by the Democracy Centre, Bucharest, in a Romanian Translation by Carmen Ionescu, 1998], pp. 86; Themes in European Trade Union History (WEA, London, 1996), pp. 120.
He edited the following two books: Michael Muller-Camen, Richard Croucher, Susan Leigh (eds.) Human Resource Management; A Case Study Approach (CIPD, 2008), pp. 527; Richard Croucher, Wilfried Kruse, Helmut Martens, Ingo Singe, Daniel Tech (eds.): Transnationale Gewerkschaftskooperationen-Erfahrung und Forschungsfragen (Beiträge aus der Forschung, SFS Dortmund, 2004) pp. 126.
He has published 17 reports to a range of national and international authorities and more than 45 papers in scientific journals registered in international databases, delivered 14 chapters in books and 19 papers for conferences. He published 11 reviews of books and 10 articles in practitioner journals.
Prof. Richard Croucher has been a member of many scientific committees of international scientific conferences in United Kingdom and other countries of Europe. He has been a chief-editor of the international scientific journal Management Revue, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the following scientific journals: Cities, Culture and Society; Labour History Review; Trade Union Studies Journal. He is a reviewer for the following journals: British Journal of Industrial Relations; International Journal of Human Resource Management; European Journal of Industrial Relations; Third World Quarterly; Construction Management and Economics; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Industrial Relations Journal; Journal of Business Ethics; Keio Economic Review; Historical Studies in Industrial Relations; Human Relations; Labour History Review; Corporate Governance; Twentieth Century British History.