Robert D. Austin

Robert Daniel Austin[1] (born 1962) is an innovation and technology management researcher and professor at Ivey Business School.[2] He is best known for pedagogical innovations in the teaching of technology management, for his "artful making" research,[3] which examines business innovation through the lens of art practice, and for his research documenting the neurodiversity employment movement.[4]

Biography

Austin received bachelor's degrees in English Literature and Engineering from Swarthmore College in 1984, a master’s in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Management and Decision Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1995 under the supervision of Patrick Larkey.[5] His doctoral thesis was the recipient of the Herbert A. Simon Doctoral Dissertation Award for Behavioral Research in the Administrative Sciences.

From 1997 to 2009, Austin was a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, working primarily in the area of Technology and Operations Management.[6] He joined the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) faculty in 2007. He has also spent time as a manager at the Ford Motor Company (1986-1995), a member of the executive team of a startup subsidiary of Novell (1999-2000), the CEO of an executive education foundation (2010-2011), and dean of the faculty of business administration at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton (2011-2013). He moved to Ivey in 2016.

He is the (co)author of more than 100 published articles, cases, and notes, and ten books.

Selected publications

  • Austin, Robert D. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, New York: Dorset House, 1996.
  • Austin, Robert D. and Lee Devin. Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003.
  • Austin, Robert D., Nolan, Richard L. and Shannon O'Donnell, Adventures of an IT Leader, Harvard Business Review Press, 2009.[7]
  • Austin, Robert D., Devin, Lee, and Erin E. Sullivan, "Accidental Innovation: Supporting Valuable Unpredictability in Creative Process,” Organization Science, September/October 2012 vol. 23 no. 5, 1505-1522.[8]
  • Austin, Robert D. and Thorkil Sonne, "The Dandelion Principle: Redesigning Work for the Innovation Economy," MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2014.[9]
  • Austin, Robert D. and Gary Pisano, "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage," Harvard Business Review, May-June 2017.
  • Austin, Robert D. and Helen Lang, "The DAO Hack: A Blockchain Dilemma," Ivey Publishing, 2020. [10]

References

  1. ^ Austin, Robert Daniel (1994). "Theories of measurement and dysfunction in organizations".
  2. ^ "Rob Austin". Ivey Business School. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  3. ^ Austin, Robert Daniel; Devin, Lee (2003). Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know about how Artists Work. FT Press. ISBN 0130086959.
  4. ^ Austin, Robert D.; Pisano, Gary P. (2017-05-01). "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage". Harvard Business Review. No. May–June 2017. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  5. ^ "Patrick Larkey - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  6. ^ "Coursera - Free Online Courses From Top Universities". Coursera. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
  7. ^ Austin, Robert Daniel; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, Shannon (2009). The adventures of an IT leader - Research@CBS. Harvard Business Press. ISBN 9781422146606. Retrieved 2016-01-08. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Accidental Innovation - Research@CBS". research.cbs.dk. doi:10.1287/orsc.1110.0681. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  9. ^ "The Dandelion Principle - Research@CBS". research.cbs.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  10. ^ "The DAO Hack: A Blockchain Dilemma". Ivey Publishing. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
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