Association for Heterodox Economics
Faculty Member, Members
Thesis Title: The governance of firms controlled by more than one board: Theory development and examples: http://ssrn.com/abstract=858244
About
Dr Shann Turnbull has over 60 of his academic papers posted with over 100,000 scholars in the Social Science Research Network web pages at http://ssrn.com/author=26239. He is the highest ranked Australian scholar measured by the number of papers downloaded and is ranked in the top 0.2% internationally. Two articles were selected to be re-published in 2000 with the seminal contributions of overseas scholars in the Corporate Governance volume of 'The History of Management Thought'.
Dr Turnbull has founded a number of enterprises with three being listed on the stock exchange. He has been Chairman and/or Chief Executive of other publicly traded corporations. Control of 12 companies was obtained with six partners from 1967 to 1974 through the stock market with each company being re-organised. Dr Turnbull has been the recipient of four awards from the UK based Institute for Social Inventions in 1986, 1993 & 1994 as pictured in FaceBook.
In 1971 he initiated the idea of a qualification for company directors and in 1975 became a founding author of the first education course in the world to provide a Diploma for Company Directors. He was also commissioned by the Company Directors Association of Australia to write Democratising the Wealth of Nations to introduce employee ownership to Australia. Since writing his 1975 book, his activities and research has been focused on reforming the theory and practice of capitalism as described in hundreds of articles that can be located by a Google search of his name. He has contributed chapters to over 30 books and authored in 2002 'A New Way to Govern: Organisations and society after Enron' for the UK based New Economics Foundation to provide an alternative to government or investor ownership and control.
Teaching and research has been an avocation of Dr Turnbull during his business career beginning as a tutor at Melbourne University in 1965 and lecturing in Business Policy to MBA students at the University of NSW from 1966-71. He was guest faculty for a Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements at MIT in 1987. His Australian Parliamentary Papers 138/1977 and 435/1978 on Economic Development of Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory introduced a new system of economic analysis and a new framework for social analysis that was later developed into his PhD Thesis. He created and taught a Corporate Governance elective for the Macquarie University MBA program in 2003/4. In 2007 he taught graduate students at the University of NSW in the School of Organisation and Management and at the University of Sydney in 2008 in the School of Government and International Relations. He is Fellow of the International Institute for Corporate Governance and Accountability, George Washington University, Law School and is on the editorial advisory boards of academic journals and is a referee.
Contact Information
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~sturnbull/
PO Box 266, Woollahra, Sydney, Australia, 1350
+612 9328 7466
+61418 222 378
Skype & Google ID: shann.turnbull
