Staff Profile

Mr Peter Smith

Director, Master of Management, PhD Student

Department:	Management and International Business
Address:	Owen G Glenn Building 12 Grafton Road Auckland
Faculty:	Business & Economics
Phone:	+64 9 373 7599 Ext. 87178
Mobile Phone:	+64 9 923 7178
Email:	p.smith@auckland.ac.nz

Background

Qualifications:

2003	Graduate Diploma in Commerce	The University of Auckland
2001	Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce	The University of Auckland
1995	Master of Business Administration	The University of Auckland
1976	City & Guilds Electrical Engineering
1976	ONC in Engineering

Positions Held:

From	To	Institution	Position Held
2008	Now	The University of Auckland	Director, The Masters of Management programme
2008	Now	The University of Auckland	Lecturer
2008	2008	The University of Auckland	Associate Director, Graduate School of Enterprise
2005	2008	The University of Auckland	Deputy Director, The Auckland MBA programme
1999	2004	The University of Auckland	Lecturer
1997	1998	The University of Auckland	Tutor
1996	1997	Self-employed	Consultant
1995	1996	Ricoh (NZ) Limited	National Service Manager
1989	1995	Philips (New Zealand) Limited	Technical Support Manager
1980	1988	Philips Data Systems (UK)	Technical Specialist
1974	1980	Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers	Various

Awards:

2004	Teaching Excellence Award
2002	Distinguished Teaching Award

Service:

1997 - 2000 Member of the executive board of the University of Auckland Alumni Association

1999 - Past President for the Association For Service Management

2000-2002 MER representative on the Board of Undergraduate Studies

2002 Coach to the postgraduate Australasian BCG Case Competition team

2003 Coach to the University of Auckland undergraduate team at the New Zealand Business Case Competition

2006 - Member of the Continuous Improvement Process group

2006 Coach to the University of Auckland undergraduate team at the McGill International Case Competition (Montreal)

2007 - Editorial Board Member; The University of Auckland Business Review

2009 - 2011 Lecturer's Representative (At Large), The Senate of the University of Auckland

Teaching:

2009	BUSADMIN 768	Strategic Management
2009	INTBUS 202 SC	Foundations of strategy
2009	MGMT 716 SC	Extending software engineering
2008	INTBUS 202 FC	Foundations of strategy
2008	INTBUS 202 SC	Foundations of strategy
2008	INTBUS 703	Strategic Management Theory
2008	MGMT 302 SC	Strategic Thinking
2006	BUSADMIN 768	Strategy
2006	BUSADMIN 798	MBA Research Project
2005	BUSADMIN 729	Integrating Strategy
2005	MGMT 101 AC	Organisation & Management
2004	MGMT 101SC	Organization and Management
2004	MGMT 301FC	Management Theory and Practice
2004	MGMT 301SC	Management Theory and Practice
2004	MGMT 302FC	Business Policy and Strategy
2004	MGMT 302SC	Business Policy and Strategy
2003	BUSADMIN 729	Integrating strategy
2003	MGMT 101	Organisation and Management
2003	MGMT 101SC	Organisation and management
2003	MGMT 302FC	Business Policy and Strategy
2003	MGMT 302FC	Business Policy and Strategy
2003	MGMT 788	BCom Hons disertation
2002	MGMT.192FS	Introduction to Management (B)
2002	MGMT.301SC	Management Theory & Practice
2002	MGMT.301SC	Management Theory & Practice
2002	MGMT.302FC	Business Policy & Strategy
2001	GENSCI.201	Managing Science & Technology
2001	MGMT.191FT	Introduction to Business
2001	MGMT.192SS	Introduction to Management (B)
2001	MGMT.302FC	Business Policy & Strategy
2001	MGMT.302SC	Business Policy & Strategy
2000	465.201	Managing Science & Technology
2000	641.301FC	Management Theory & Practice
2000	641.302FC	Business Policy & Strategy
2000	641.302SC	Business Policy & Strategy
1999	641.101FC	Organisation & Management
1999	641.301FC	Management Theory & Practice
1999	641.302FC	Business Policy & Strategy
1999	641.315SC	Interpersonal Relations in Organisations
1998	465.201FC	Managing Science & Technology
1998	641.212FC	Organisation Theory
1998	641.222SC	Employment Relations in New Zealand
1998	641.315SC	Interpersonal Relations in Organisations
1997	465.201FC	Managing Science & Technology

Research Interests:

Professional Service Firms
For researchers using theories of practice, context really matters (see, for example, Suchman, 1987). To understand practices one needs to understand the context (which partially constitutes the practice). My context of choice is professional servic

Strategy-as-practice
The 'practice turn' (Schatzki, 2001) is perhaps best know within sociology. However, it is perhaps "strategy-as-practice" (Whittington, 1996; Jarzabkowski, 2003) that embraced theories of practice the most within the domain of business and the study of organisations . Using the theories of practice, and the strartegy-as-practice lens, I'm interest in how people do (and get better at) strategy.

Theories of practice
Much of my research focuses on how people get better at what they do. Using theories of practice--such as those of Bourdieu, De Certeau, Schatzki, Turner, and Rouse--I explore the relationship between hope people learn and knowledge.

Selected Publications:

Sections in Books

2005 ERAKOVIC, L., ROTHKEGEL, S., LAMERS, P., SMITH, P., ‘The seeds of change: Telecom New Zealand. In: M. Wilson (ed.)‘, Case in Point, 263-282.

Conference Paper

2008 SMITH, P., ERAKOVIC, L., Y.DUFOUR, ‘Strategising in the routines of governance: An empirical case study in an engineering consultancy firm‘, Clifford Chance Conference on Professions, Professionals and Organizations of Professionals , Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK, 6-8 July.

2008 SMITH, P., ERAKOVIC, L., Y.DUFOUR, ‘The relationship between strategising and the routines of governance: An empirical case study involving pluralistic contexts‘, The 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July

2007 SMITH, P., ‘Understanding the challenges of strategizing in pluralistic contexts: Integrating new theoretical perspectives‘, 4/12/2007

Other

2007 Y.DUFOUR, SMITH, P., ERAKOVIC, L., ‘Right Hemisphere‘ In: The Icehouse (ed.), 1-13.

2007 HALLIDAY, N., SMITH, P., ERAKOVIC, L., ‘Team New Zealand 2003. In: C.W.L. Hill, G.R. Jones and P. Galvin‘, Strategic Management 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons Australia, [Web Case Study]., 5 February 2007, c1-c8.

2006 STANIK, A., SMITH, P., ERAKOVIC, L., ‘Emirates Airlines’ Expansion into New Zealand. In: C.W.L. Hill, G.R. Jones and P. Galvin‘, Strategic Management 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons Australia, [Web Case Study], 6 December, c1-c19.

2006 ERAKOVIC, L., SMITH, P., ‘Fletcher Challenge: The end of an empire - organisational death or strategic disintegration? In: C.W.L. Hill, G.R. Jones and P. Galvin‘, Strategic Management 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons Australia, [Web Case Study]., 4 December 2006, c1-c18.

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