Staff Profile

Department:	Management and International Business
Address:	Owen G Glenn Building 12 Grafton Road Auckland
Faculty:	Business & Economics
Phone:	+64 9 373 7599 Ext. 85309

Email:	d.shepherd@auckland.ac.nz

Deb is a Senior Lecturer in Management and International Business Department in the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Auckland. She currently teaches in the Postgraduate and Executive Programmes in the areas of Organisation Change and Development and Professional Development. Her research interests are in the area of family business, SME growth, SME governance, leaderhsip, strategy adn internationalisation and more recently a developing interest in social entrepreneurship.

Deb is involved in the student-led initiative SPARK and is currently one of the Faculty directors of the SPARK Vision to Business Programme. She was part of the founding team for The ICEHOUSE Business Growth Programmes and continues to develop and facilitate the Owner Manager Programme and is involved to a lesser extent in the Agribusiness programme. Deb's consultancy work is with SMEs and Family Businesses in the areas of team and leadership development, strategy development, and business growth. She is a Member of the Family Firm Institute and is a Board member for a number of privately owned NZ businesses.

Research Interests
Family Business
SME Growth
Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship

Qualifications:

1998	Doctor of Philosophy	University of Auckland
1992	Master of Arts (Honours)	University of Auckland
1990	Bachelor of Arts	University of Otago

Awards:

1997	NZ Federation of University Women PhD Scholarship
1993	University of Auckland Postgraduate Scholarship

Service:

Member, Australia New Zealand Academy of Management

Member, Family Firm Institute

Teaching:

2009	HRMGMT 704	Managing Change in Organisations
2009	Mgmt 723	Advanced Professional Development
2009	Mgmt 726	Organisational Change and Innovation
2008	Mgmt 722	Organisational change and innovation
2008	Mgmt 723	Advanced Professional Development

Research Interests:

Entrepreneurial SMEs

Family Business

SME Growth

SME leadership, governance, strategy

SME resilience

Social entrepreneurship

Selected Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles

2000 SHEPHERD, D., JONES, D., ‘Managing diversity meets Aotearoa/New Zealand‘, Personnel 29, 3, 364-380.

2000 SHEPHERD, D., ‘Multinational challenges for HR‘, Employment Today 61, 26-27.

2000 SHEPHERD, D., ‘National and organisational cultures: A critical intersection‘, Revue de Gestion des Resources Humaines, 38, 146-157.

Sections in Books

1994 SHEPHERD, D., ‘An attribution theory analysis of managers' perceptions of success and failure‘ In: Kouzman, A., Still, L. and Clarke, P. (ed.), New Directions in Management, Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 64-81.

Conference Paper

1999 SHEPHERD, D., ‘Organisational culture and change: A symbiotic relationship‘, Brisbane, December