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Andrew Pendleton

Professor and Head of School of Management

School of Management - BA (Hons.) Oxford | PhD Bath | Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Expertise

With a background in industrial relations and sociology of work, Andrew’s main area of expertise are incentives, employee stock ownership plans, and employee ownership. He has written extensively on topics such as the impact of stock ownership plans on organisational performance, the effects of multiple incentives, and employee behaviour within stock plans. He has constructed the main database of employee-owned companies in the UK (with Andrew Robinson, University of Leeds). He has also written on corporate ownership, governance, and employment relations.

About Andrew

Andrew has recently moved from the UK to become Head of the School of Management at UNSW. Previously, he was Head of the Department of Management in Durham University Business School, and has also held academic posts at the universities of Bath, Bradford, Kent, Manchester Metropolitan, and York. He is a fellow and mentor on the Beyster Program in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, and a Visiting Professor at University Pantheon-Assas Paris 2. He has previously held visiting roles at Monash and Sydney universities.

Journal Articles

Pendleton A;Robinson A, 2018, 'Lack of diversification among employee stock owners: An empirical evaluation of behavioral explanations', Human Resource Management, vol. 57, pp. 1175 - 1187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21892
Pendleton A;Bryson A;Gospel H, 2017, 'Ownership and Pay in Britain', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 55, pp. 688 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12241
Whitfield K;Pendleton A;Sengupta S;Huxley K, 2017, 'Employee share ownership and organisational performance: a tentative opening of the black box', Personnel Review, vol. 46, pp. 1280 - 1296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-09-2016-0243
Pendleton A;Robinson A, 2017, 'The productivity effects of multiple pay incentives', Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 38, pp. 588 - 608, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x15583099
Guery L;Pendleton A, 2016, 'Do investments in human capital lead to employee share ownership? Evidence from French establishments', Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 37, pp. 567 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x14551999
Kuvandikov A;Pendleton A;Higgins D, 2014, 'Employment Change after Takeovers: The Role of Executive Ownership', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 52, pp. 191 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12012

Book Chapters

Pendleton A, 2018, 'Employee financial participation', in Routledge Companion on Reward Management, Routledge
Pendleton A;Gospel H, 2018, 'Financialisation, pensions, and labour: the UK experience’', in Archer S;Roberts C;Skerrett K;Weststar J (ed.), Pension Funds in the Era of Financialised Capitalism, Labor and Employment Relations Association, Madison, WI
Pendleton A;Robinson A, 2018, 'Employee ownership in Britain: development and diversity’', in Guery L;Stevenot A (ed.), Compensation: Managerial Issues and Societal Debates in France and Abroad, Economic, Paris
Pendleton A;Robinson A, 2017, '‘Employee ownership in Britain Today’', in blasi J;Michie J;Borzaga C (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business, Oxford University Press
Pendleton A;Poutsma E, 2012, 'Financial Participation: the Nature and Causes of National Variation’', in Brewster C;Mayrhofer W;Farndale E (ed.), Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management, Edward Elgar Publishing

Other Academic Work

Pendleton A, 2019, Financial participation in Europe: opportunities and risks for employees, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium, ETUI Policy Briefs, https://www.etui.org/Publications2/Policy-Briefs/European-Economic-Employment-and-Social-Policy/Financial-participation-in-Europe-opportunities-and-risks-for-employees