Paul Tracey

Professor Paul Tracey serves as Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship) in the Department of Management and Marketing within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He is also Professor of Innovation and Organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School, where he holds the positions of Vice Dean for Research and Impact and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation. Tracey earned a BA and PhD from the University of Stirling. Prior to these roles, he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School and held academic posts at the School of Geography at Oxford University and the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Newcastle. He is a Fellow of Hughes Hall and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network.

Tracey's research specializations encompass social innovation, new venture creation, entrepreneurship in marginalized contexts, inclusive technology, institutions and institutional change, and regional innovation. He has received notable awards, including the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award in 2021 with Laura Claus, the European Group of Organization Studies Best Paper Award in 2020 with Lilia Giugni, and an ESRC Mid-Career Fellowship from April 2011 to March 2013. Tracey contributes editorially as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Organization; he previously served on the boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and as Associate Editor of Innovation: Organization and Management. Key publications include 'Social entrepreneurship: A critique and future directions' (Organization Science, 2011), 'Social bricolage: Theorizing social value creation in social enterprises' (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2010), 'Bridging institutional entrepreneurship and the creation of new organizational forms: A multilevel model' (Organization Science, 2011), 'Formal dining at Cambridge colleges: Linking ritual performance and institutional maintenance' (Academy of Management Journal, 2010), 'The distinctive challenge of educating social entrepreneurs: A postscript and rejoinder to the special issue on entrepreneurship education' (Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2007), and 'Purpose in the for-profit firm: A review and framework for management research' (Journal of Management, 2023). His scholarship has significantly influenced organization studies and entrepreneurship research.