Emeritus Professor
Tel: (+64) 3 4703580
Email: colin.campbell-hunt@otago.ac.nz
I thoroughly enjoyed a 40 year career as a business school academic, both at Otago and before that at Victoria in Wellington. My research and teaching never strayed far from questions of competition between firms and the ways in which firms might possibly sustain an advantage over their competitors. I am greatly privileged to have lead a large 10-year funded research programme into the competitiveness of New Zealand firms in global markets.
In later years, I also became interested in the application of complex systems theory to organisations, and this has given me a perspective on the enormous challenges presented to New Zealand and the world by climate change. The Centre for Sustainability has kindly given me a base from which to continue this work. I also act as something of a mentor to the wonderful cohort of postgraduate students based at the Centre.
Finally, I have tried to carry on the work of my late wife, Diane and her commitment to the conservation of New Zealand's threatened species and ecologies.
Current and Recent Research Projects
I am a trustee of the Otago Natural History Trust (Orokonui Ecosanctuary), and of the Orokonui Foundation.
I am also secretary to Sanctuaries of New Zealand Inc. the body that represents all community-based sanctuaries in New Zealand
Significant Publications
Campbell-Hunt D and Campbell-Hunt C, Ecosanctuaries: Communities building a future for New Zealand's threatened ecologies, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2013.
Campbell-Hunt C, J Brocklesby, S Chetty, LM Corbett, S Davenport, D Jones, and P Walsh. World Famous in New Zealand: How New Zealand's Leading Firms became World-class Competitors, Auckland University Press, June 2001.
Campbell-Hunt, C. (2007) Complexity in Practice, Human Relations, 60(5), 793-823. Reprinted in Johannessen S.O. and Kuhn, L. Complexity in Organization Studies, SAGE, 2012
Chetty S and C Campbell-Hunt, (2004) A Strategic Approach to Internationalization: A Traditional Versus a “Born-Global” Approach, Journal of International Marketing, 12(1), 57-81. Winner of the 2009 Hans B. Thorelli Award, American Marketing Association.
Campbell-Hunt C: What Have We Learned About Generic Competitive Strategy; A Meta-analysis, Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 127-154