John Rodney Turner (born 21 January 1953)John Rodney TURNER Summary Education and Qualifications
at ''polimi.it.'' 03.10.2013. Accessed 26.06.2017. is a British/New Zealand organizational theorist and Professor of

Project Management Project management is the process of supervising the work of a Project team, team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project initiation documentation, project documentation, crea ...

at Skema Business School since 2004 and at the Kingston Business School since 2013.Professor Rodney Turner
at ''business.kingston.ac.uk.'' Accessed 27.06.2017 He is known for his work of

project management Project management is the process of supervising the work of a Project team, team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project initiation documentation, project documentation, crea ...

.Jugdev, Kam, and Ralf Müller. "A retrospective look at our evolving understanding of project success." ''Project Management Institute,'' 2005.

Biography

Turner obtained his B.Eng from the University of Auckland in 1973, his DPhil in Engineering Science and MSc in mathematics from in Worcester College, Oxford in 1977, and another Msc from

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The l ...

in 1979. Turner started his academic career as IBM Post-doctoral Research Fellow in 1977 at Oxford University in its Department of Engineering Science and at Brasenose College. After his graduation in 1979 he moved into industry, starting as mechanical engineer at

Imperial Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British Chemical industry, chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain. Its headquarters were at Millbank in London. ICI was listed on the London Stock Exchange ...

. The next six years he worked in management positions in process development, project management, machine design, construction and maintenance. In 1985 he moved into consultancy branch and was management consultant for Coopers & Lybrand Associates in the fields of manufacturing and project management. There for three years he worked in the areas of shipbuilding, manufacturing, telecommunications, computing, finance, and government. In 1989 he moved back to the academic world to the Henley Business School at the University of Reading as Director of Project Management, appointed Professor in 1994. In 1997 he moved to the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he served as Professor of Project Management until 2005. In those days he was also Operations Director in the process plant industry at the European Construction Institute. Since 2004 he is Professor of Project Management at the Skema Business School. From 2005 to 2009 he was also Professor of Project Management at Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, at since 2013 Professor of Project Management at the Kingston Business School. Rodney served as chairman of the

Association for Project Management The Association for Project Management is a British professional organisation for project and programme management. It received a Royal Charter in 2017, and is a registered charity. It has over 45,000 individual and more than 470 corporate ...

, and as chairman of the International Project Management Association from 1998-2000. Turners research areas cover "project management in small to medium-enterprises, the management of complex projects, the governance of project management, including ethics and trust, project leadership and Human Resource Management in the project-oriented firm."

Selected publications

* Turner, John Rodney. ''The handbook of project-based management: improving the processes for achieving strategic objectives.'' McGraw-Hill, 1993. * Turner, J. Rodney. ''Handbook of project-based management.'' McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2008. ;Articles, a selection * Turner, J. Rodney, and Robert A. Cochrane. "Goals-and-methods matrix: coping with projects with ill defined goals and/or methods of achieving them." International Journal of project management 11.2 (1993): 93-102. * Turner, J. Rodney, and Ralf Müller. "On the nature of the project as a temporary organization." ''International journal of project management'' 21.1 (2003): 1-8. * Turner, John Rodney, and Ralf Müller. "The project manager's leadership style as a success factor on projects: A literature review." Project Management Institute, 2005.

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Professor Rodney Turner
at ''business.kingston.ac.uk.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Rodney 1953 births Living people British business theorists University of Auckland alumni Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Reading Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam Academics of the University of Limerick Academics of Kingston University Imperial Chemical Industries people Coopers and Lybrand people