Senior Lecturer, School of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Sydney, Australia

Peter Moran is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & International Management at London Business School where he shares responsibility for co-developing and teaching core strategy courses to all MBA and EMBA students. He has conducted management consulting assignments for consulting firms and private clients in the US, Europe and Asia.

Peter's current research explores the role that organizations play in inducing and supporting resource deployments that are difficult or impossible to justify on allocative efficiency grounds.

In focusing on how organizations actively and passively defy and interact with market forces, Peter aims to explain more fully the importance of firms to the process of creating value. Knowing how firms enhance the ability of individuals to add value for themselves, for their organizations and for society is a step toward understanding and beginning to specify what managerial action is likely to lead to value creation, as well as when it is likely to occur and when it is not.

Peter’s articles on this subject include “Structural versus Relational Embeddedness: Social Capital and Managerial Performance”, in Strategic Management Journal; “A New Manifesto for Management”, in Sloan Management Review;
“Markets, Firms and the Process of Economic Development”,  “Bad for Practice: A Critique of the Transaction Cost Theory” and “Theories of Economic Organization: the case for Realism and Balance”, in the Academy of Management Review.

He has a Ph.D. from INSEAD, an MBA from Cornell University and a BS in Chemical Engineering, also from Cornell.