Richard Whittington is an academic in the area of Corporate Strategy. Currently, he is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford,[1] and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Whittington has been influential in the Strategy-as-Practice approach, a more sociological and less managerial approach to the study of business and corporate strategy.[2] He was previously an Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal.[3]
At New College, Whittington also sits on the Governing Committee of the Gradel Institute of Charity, a research institution promoting work on the governance and strategy of third sector organisations.[4]