With an industrial background in managing strategic change programs and process improvement projects, his doctoral thesis explored the role of risk in post-merger and acquisition integration. Ian’s continuing research interests are broadly in project management and qualitative research methods (especially Grounded Theory). He has published in the British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Risk Research, European Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management and International Small Business Journal amongst others. He may be contacted at Ian A. Harwood at, iah@soton.ac.uk.