Duane Ireland Elected to Academy of Management Board

December 11, 2002

University of Richmond's Robins School of Business professor R. Duane Ireland has been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Management.

Ireland, holder of the W. David Robbins Chair in Strategic Management, was elected to a three-year term. The academy has over 12,000 members from 84 countries.

Ireland also is a member of the editorial review boards for the Journal of Management and Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies.

His book "Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Mindset" is being translated into Chinese, and his book "Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization" has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Indonesian, among other languages.

Ireland delivered the keynote address, "Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy: Its Antecedents, Architecture and Consequences," during the British Academy of Management meeting held in London in September.