Paul Robertson is Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania and Research Fellow of AIRC. He received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972 and lectured in economic history for more than twenty years at Boston University, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Studies and the University of Melbourne. He subsequently shifted his research interests to technology, innovation and strategic management and joined the University of New South Wales.

Paul retired in 2005 as a professor in the Graduate School of Management at Griffith University in Brisbane. From 2002 to 2005, he was closely associated with PILOT, a European Commission–funded project that investigated the technology management practices of medium- and low-technology firms in the European Union.

Paul has published sixty books and articles including Firms, Markets and Economic Change:  A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions, which he co-authored with Richard N. Langlois (Routledge, 1995).  He has also edited or co-edited Authority and Control in Modern Industry (1999) and Resources, Technology and Strategy (2000), both published by Routledge, and a series of three volumes on Alternative Theories of the Firm (Edward Elgar, 2002).  He was co-guest editor of an issue of Managerial and Decision Economics (Pandian and Robertson, 2003).

Phone: +61 3 6226 7384

Email: Paul.Robertson@utas.edu.au