Gordon Redding

In 2006 he received the biennial Award for Distinguished Scholarship of the International Association for Chinese Management Research.

His main theory work has been on Chinese management, notably in The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (1990. de Gruyter), and (with Michael Witt) The Future of Chinese Capitalism (2007, Oxford University Press). His current work is on the comparison of different systems of capitalism, and in the societal processes such as education that affect success and failure in supporting a country's progress. His current work is for a book The Orchestration of Societal Progress (Oxford University Press). He has published a further ten books and approximately 150 academic articles. His most recent books include "The Hidden Form of Capital" (edited with Peter Berger) Anthem Press, "The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems' (edited with Michael Witt), 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management (edited with Anthony Drew and Steven Crump) His most significant theory papers have been 'The thick description and comparison of societal systems of capitalism' (Journal of International Business Studies, 2005), and 'Impact of China's invisible societal forces on its intended evolution' in A Lewin, M.Kenney and J P Murmann (eds) China's Innovation Challenge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. Other representative works are ' Separating culture from institutions: the use of semantic spaces as a conceptual domain and the case of China' (Management and Organization Review, 4,2, 2008), and, with Max Boisot and John Child 'Working the system: toward a theory of cultural and institutional competence' (International Studies in Management and Organization 41,1, 2011).

In 1987 he spent a sabbatical year in Boston, based at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University, working with Prof Peter Berger, and writing 'The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism', enjoying also a visiting fellowship at the Harvard Fairbank Centre.

Gordon Redding has two sons from a first marriage: Philip (1965, CEO); and Peter (born 1967, Regional head of Asian marketing in a multinational): and six grandchildren. His wife of 33 years is author and journalist Laura Lam and they have a son Thurstan (born August 1992), a Cambridge graduate now an established international photographer. The family is now based in London. Personal interests include Asian art, the social chemistry of good dinner parties, photography, and Victorian biography.

Gordon Redding (born 30 May 1937), MA (Cambridge, PhD (Manchester), D.Econ h.c. (Stockholm SSE), is a British professor, academic, author, editor, and consultant. He is today a specialist on China and the regional ethnic Chinese, and also works on the comparison of different systems of capitalism, and on the role of education in societal development.His core interest is in the role of culture in the shaping of societal progress. He has published 15 books and 150 articles related to these subjects. He has held a number of professorships, and is currently working as a Senior Fellow of the HEAD Foundation (Human Capital and Education for Asian Development), based in Singapore. This is a non-profit foundation which he was invited by regional philanthropists to establish in 2010, and initially directed to 2014. He also spent 24 years at the University of Hong Kong, where he founded and directed the HKU Business School (now the Faculty of Business and Economics). For seven years from 1997 he was Director of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD in France. He was also for ten years a Director of the Wharton International Forum, working globally in executive education. Now living in London he held - from 2013 to 2015 - a Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Institute of Education, UCL.