Dr Taman Powell

Dr Taman Powell

Lecturer in Strategic Management and Innovation

Building R38, Aberconway Building
E-mail PowellTH@cf.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)29 2087 0059

Prior to academia, Taman worked for 10 years in management, starting in brand marketing with Procter & Gamble then moving to management consulting with Accenture.

Academic Prizes

Special Commendation winner, Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards, 2009~
Awarded ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship (Warwick and Harvard), 2008
Awarded ESRC postgraduate studentship, 2007.
Winner of the 'Bentley College/HEC Outstanding Student Paper Award' and nominated for the 'William H. Newman Award' at the Academy of Management. 2004
Nominated for Society for the Advancement of Management Studies Studentship (one nomination is made by each university), 2004.
Received MBA with distinction, INSEAD, France, 1999

Qualifications

PhD (Warwick) 2008 'The Evolution of Organisational Knowledge Management Approaches and Their Impact on Knowledge Related Practice: A Study of Management Consulting'. Special Commendation winner of the 2009 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
MBA with Distinction (INSEAD).

Teaching profile

Business Plan
International Business
Strategic Management

Research interests

Taman's research focuses on knowledge based competition. Specifically, his research focuses on how organisations create, share and exploit knowledge, and what impact this has on organisational performance.

Selected publications

Powell, T. 2010. An Evolutionary Perspective of Knowledge Management in Practice. WBS Doctoral Programme.

Powell, T. & Thomas, H. 2008. Dynamic Knowledge Creation. The Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight.

Jonsson, E. & Powell, T. 2006. An Effective Board from a Team Perspective. Corporate Board.
Selected entries in the Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Management, 2005

Recent conference publications

Powell & Ambrosini (2011) Complements not Substitutes: The Integrated Nature of KM Practices in Management Consultancy Firms. Academy of Management Conference.

Powell (2010) Performance Enhancement: The Practice of Organizational Knowledge Sharing. Strategic Management Society Conference.

Hughes, Morgan, Hughes, Kouropalatis, Powell and Hodgkinson (2010), Antecedents and Consequences of Product-Market Planning Capability. Strategic Management Society Conference.

Powell (2009) Pluralistic Knowledge Management: An Empirical Investigation into the Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Knowledge Management Practices. Marketing & Strategy Research Seminar, Cardiff Business School.

Powell, T. 2008. Competing Perspectives on the Practice of Knowledge Management. Strategic Management Society Conference.

Powell, T. 2008. Learning to Manage Knowledge Management. Academy of Management Conference
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Powell, T. 2008. Beyond Wellsprings: Influencing Absorptive Capacity. EGOS Colloquium.

Powell, T. 2007. The Evolution of Knowledge Management in Practice. Academy of Management Conference. (Winner of the 'Bentley College/HEC Outstanding Student Paper Award' and nominated for the 'William H. Newman Award')

Powell, T. 2007. The Evolution of Knowledge Management in Practice. EGOS Colloquium