Founding Director

Anne Huff is the Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), a UK wide management research initiative with offices based at Warwick Business School.

She is an Academic Director of CLIC, the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation at HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a Permanent Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich. She had prior appointments at London Business School, Cranfield School of Management, and the Universities of Colorado, Illinois, and UCLA.  She earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (philosophy), as well as an MA (sociology) and PhD (management) from Northwestern University.

Her research interests focus on open innovation, strategic change, and the processes of academic research and publication. In 1998-99 she was President of the Academy of Management, an association of management researchers with over 18,000 members worldwide; she held associated leadership positions from 1995 to 2001.  In 2003 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of that association. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from Jönköping University in Sweden.

Recent Books

A S Huff, S Floyd, H Sherman, & S. Terjesen (2009) Strategic Management (Wiley)
A S Huff (2009) Designing Research for Publication (Sage)
A S Huff (2002) Mapping Strategic Knowledge (Sage)
AS Huff (2000) When Firms Change Direction (Sage)
AS Huff (1999) Writing for Scholarly Publication (Sage)

Other Recent Publications

• Huff, A.S., Möslein, K. & Neyer A-K. (2010) Methods to Support Significant and Interesting Contributions to Strategizing Research, in D. Golsorkhi, et al. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Cambridge University Press.

• Huff, A. & Möslein, K. (2009) Framing Research on Service in D.D. Bergh and D.J. Ketchen (Eds), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, vol 5, JAI Press. 

• Huff, A. & Eden, C. (2009) Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Guest Editor’s Introduction in International Studies of Management & Organization, 39(1).

• Möslein, K. & Huff, A. (2007) Management Education and Research in Germany, in P. Durand (ed.) The Future of Business Schools. Palgrave, 133-161.

• Huff, A., Tranfield D. & van Aken, J. (2006). Management as a Design Science, Mindful of Art and Surprise. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15 (4), 413-424.

• Huff, A.S. (2005) Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of Coherence, in K. G. Smith and M. A. Hitt (eds.) Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development. Oxford University Press. [Paperback edition, 2007.]

• Huff, A.S. (2005) Strengthening our Practices as an Academic Field of Inquiry, In S. Floyd, J. Roos, & C. Jacobs (eds.), Innovating Strategy Practices. Blackwell.

• Huff, A.S. & Möslein, K. (2004) An Agenda for Understanding Individual Leadership in Corporate Leadership Systems, in C. Cooper (ed.), Leadership and Management in the 21st Century: Business Challenges of the Future. Oxford University Press.

• Huff, A.S. (2004) Transitions Revisited, in R. Stablein & P. Frost (eds.) Renewing Research Practice: Lessons from Scholar’s Journeys. Stanford University Press, 2004.

• Huff, A.S. (2004) Academic Commentary on Part III: Realizing Academic-Industry Partnerships, in N. B. Adler, A. B. Shani & A. Styhre (eds.) Collaborative Research in Organizations. Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical Developmen. Sage, 333-337.

• Balogun, J, Huff, A. & Johnson P. (2003). Three Responses to the Methodological Challenges of Studying Strategizing. Journal of Management Studies, 40(1), 197-224.

• Huff, A and Huff, J. (2002). In Sight, but Out of Mind: Dilemmas that Diminish the Chances for Reconstructed Policy Sciences. Organization, 9 (3), 447-452.

• Huff, A.S. (2002) Learning to Be a Successful Writer, in D. Partington (ed.), Essential Skills for Management Research. Sage.

• Huff, A. & Huff, J. (2001). Refocusing the Business School Agenda, British Journal of Management, 12, Special Issue, 49-54.

• Huff, A. (2001). The Continuing Relevance of Strategy. Human Relations, 54 (1), 123-130,Johnson, P., Daniels, K. & Huff, A. (2001) Sensemaking, Leadership and Mental Models, in R. Klimoski & S. Zaccaro (eds.) The Nature of Organizational Leadership. Jossey-Bass.

• Huff, A. (2000). 1999 Presidential Address: Changes in Organizational Knowledge Production, Academy of Management Review, 25 (2), 288-293.

• Huff, A. S. (2000). Citigroup’s John Reed and Stanford’s James March on Management Research and Practice, Academy of Management Executive, 14 (1) 1-13, (edited presentations)   

Links

Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation: http://www.clicresearch.de/
For further details please contact: Nicole Horbas
Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation
HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management
 Katharinenstr. 17, 04109 Leipzig, GERMANY
Tel: +49 341 9851-860
email: nicole.horbas@hhl.de

For additional information relating to Professor Huff, please contact Claire Fitzpatrick or telephone +44 (0)870 734 3000

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