Paul N. Gooderham
Professor Paul N. Gooderham is a graduate of the University of Bergen with a doctoral degree
from the University of Trondheim, Norway.
He is a full-time tenured Professor of International Management at NHH, The Norwegian
School of Economics & Business Administration (1994-) and an adjunct professor at
Middlesex University Business School in London.
At NHH he is a Director of Research at NHH’s Institute for Research in Economics and
Business Administration (SNF) and NHH’s coordinator of research on international strategy
and management.
Selected Publications:
Books
Gooderham, P.N. and Nordhaug, O. (2003). International Management: Cross-Boundary Challenges.
Blackwell, Oxford.
Gooderham, P.N., Grøgaard, B. and Nordhaug, O. (2013): International Management: Theory and Practice.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
Journal articles
Espedal, B., Gooderham, P.N. and Stensaker, I. (2013). Developing social capital or prima donnas? Human
Resource Management (US). Forthcoming.
Gooderham, P.N. (2012). The transition from a multi-domestic enterprise in an industry where local taste
matters. European Journal of International Management, 6(2), 175-198.
Gooderham, P.N. and Nordhaug, N. (2011). One European model of HRM? Cranet empirical contributions.
Human Resource Management Review 21 (1) 27–36.
Brookes, M., Croucher, R., Fenton-O'Creevy, M. and Gooderham, P.N. (2011). Measuring competing
explanations of human resource management
practices through the Cranet survey: Cultural versus institutional explanations. Human Resource Management
Review 21 (1) 68-79.
Gooderham, P.N., Minbaeva, D.B. and Pedersen, T. (2011). Governance Mechanisms for the Promotion
of Social Capital for Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations. Journal of Management
Studies.48(1) 123-150
Nordhaug, O. and Gooderham, P.N. (2010) Elite female business Students in China and Norway: Job-related
values and preferences. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Volume 54 Issue 2, 109. 2010
Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Gooderham, P.N. and Nordhaug, O. (2008). Human Resource Management in US
subsidiaries in Europe: Centralization or Autonomy? Journal of International Business Studies 39(1) 151-166.
Døving, E. and Gooderham, P.N. (2008). Small firm accountancy practices as business advisors: A dynamic
capabilities view of their scope of services. Strategic Management Journal, 29, 841857.
Gooderham, P.N., Parry, E. and Ringdal, K. (2008). The impact of bundles of strategic human resource
management practices on the performance of European Firms. International Journal of Human Resource
Management (with Parry, E. and Ringdal, K.), 19(11), 2041-2056.
Gooderham, P.N. (2007). Enhancing knowledge transfer in multinational corporations: A dynamic capabilities
driven model. Knowledge Management Research and Practice. 5(1).
Croucher, R., Gooderham, P.N. and Parry, E (2006). The Antecedents of Direct Communication in British and
Danish Firms: Country, “Strategic HRM” or Unionization? European Journal of
Industrial Relations. 12(3) 267-286.
Gooderham, P.N., Nordhaug, O. and Ringdal, K. (2006). National Embeddedness and HRM in US Subsidiaries
in Europe. Human Relations. 59 (11) 1491-1513.
Mabey, C. and Gooderham, P.N. (2005). The impact of management development on the organizational
performance of European firms. European Management Review. 2 (3), 131-142.
Gooderham, P.N., Tobiassen, A. and Nordhaug, O. (2004). Accountants as Sources of Business Advice for
Small Firms (lead author). International Small Business Journal. 22(1), 5-20.
Gooderham, P.N., with Nordhaug, O., Ringdal, K. and Birkelund, G.E. (2004). Job values among future Business
Leaders: The impact of gender and social background. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 20(3), 277-295.
Gooderham, P.N. (2002). “Beyond the M-form”: Towards a Critical Test of the New Form . The International
Journal of the Economics of Business, 9 (1), 117-138.
Gooderham, P.N., Nordhaug, O. and Ringdal, K. (1999). Institutional and Rational Determinants of
Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms. Administrative Science
Quarterly, 44.
Selected book chapters
Gooderham, P.N., Nordhaug, O. and Grogaard, B. (2013). Divergent Norwegian and North American HRM
regimes: Implications for Norwegian MNEs. In M. Lazarova, E.Parry and E. Stavrou (eds.) Global Trends in
Human Resource. Palgrave: London.
Björkman, I. and Gooderham, P.N. (2012). International human resource management research and institutional
theory. In G.K. Stahl, I. Björkman and S. Morris (eds.). Handbook of Research in International Resource
Management. 2.ed. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 472-489.
Fenton-O’Creevy , M., Gooderham, P.N. Cerdin. J-L and Rønning, R. (2011) Bridging roles , social skill and
embedded knowing in multinational organizations. In “Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation”,
(Eds.) M. Geppert and C. Dörrenbächer. Cambridge University Press. Pp 101-138.
Gooderham, P.N. and Nordhaug, O. (2006). HRM in Multinational Corporations: Strategies and Systems.
In H. Holt Larsen and W. Mayrhofer, Managing Human Resources in Europe. London: Routledge.
Gooderham, P.N., Brewster, C., Mayerhofer, W. and Morley, M. (2005). Human Resource Management: A
Universal Concept? In C. Brewster, W. Mayerhofer and M. Morley (eds.) Human Resource Management in
Europe: Evidence of Convergence. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann. pp.1-26.
Gooderham, P.N., Nordhuag, O. and Ringdal, K. (2004). Institutional context and HRM: US subsidiaries in
Europe. In F. McDonald et al. The Process of Internationalization. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Gooderham, P.N., Nordhaug, O. and Løwendahl, B.(2003). Functional flexibility, strategic Adaptation, and
competence orientation: The Norwegian case. In V. Gupta (ed.) Transformative Organization: Perspectives and
Evidence from Across the Globe, Sage.
Gooderham, P.N. and Ulset, S. (2002). Knowledge transfer between parent and developing country subsidiaries: a
conceptual framework (with Ulset, S.). In International Business. F. McDonald and H. Tüselmann (eds). London:
Palgrave.
Gooderham, P.N. and Ulset, S. (2001). Is the governance of transnationals really ”beyond the M-form”? A critical
review of Bartlett and Ghoshal’s “New Organisational Model” (with Ulset, S.). In J. Taggart, (ed.) The Multinational
in the Millennium: Changes and Choices. London: Palgrave.
Teaching:
He has considerable experience of teaching international groups of students in International Management.
In addition he teaches a doctoral course on Organizational Theory.
He is currently supervising two doctoral students at NHH within the field of international management.
Networks:
He is a member of
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The 40+ country Cranet-network,
The 8 country Employment Practices in MNEs network (INTREPID),
He is an occasional reviewer for:
Academy of Management Journal,
Academy of Management Review
Journal of International Management
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of Management Studies
Management International Review.
Human Relations
He is a member of the panel that selects the best paper in Organizational Studies for the biennial Roland Calori
prize.
Recently Externally Funded Research Projects
Current:
Director of Beyond Budgeting financed by the Norwegian petroleum company, Statoil.
Previous:
2007-2010: knowledge sharing in multinational companies – the “GOLD” project - substantial funding from
three Scandinavian multinationals and the Norwegian research council.
http://paraplyen.imaker.no/paraplyen/paraplyen_/english_ve/english_ve/gold-hits-/
Director of Enhancing the performance of SMEs through business advisory services. Close links with Open
University Business School. Jointly funded by the Norwegian Association of Small Firm Accountants, NARF, and
the Norwegian Research Council (2002-2005).
Country director:
Management development in Europe. Seven-country comparative research into management development in Europe.
Funded by EU’s Leonardo programme (2002-2003).
Associate director:
The transference of US Human Resource Management to Norwegian firms. Funded by the Norwegian Research
Council (2003-2006).
Associate researcher:
The globalisation of the telecommunications industry: developing management structures and
knowledge transfer mechanisms. Funded by the Norwegian telecommunications incumbent
operator – Telenor (2001-2002).