Walter R. Nord
Professor

Walter R. Nord is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Management in the Management Department in the College of Business at the University of South Florida. He received the Distinguished Educator award from the Academy of Management in 2002.  His current interests center on developing an agnostic philosophical framework for social science.  He has published widely in scholarly journals and edited/authored a number of books.  His books include:  The Meanings of Occupational Work (with A. Brief), Implementing Routine and Radical Innovations (with S. Tucker), Organizational Reality:  Reports from the Firing Line and Managerial Reality (with P. Frost and V. Mitchell), and Resistance and Power in Organizations (with J. Jermier and D. Knights).  Human Resources Reality:  Putting Competence in Context, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002 (with P. Frost and L. Krefting).  He co-edited the Handbook of Organization Studies (with S. Clegg and C. Hardy) that received the 1997 George Terry Award.  The second edition is in press.  Dr. Nord received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Washington University.  He has held faculty positions at the Olin School of Business at Washington University.  He is a past book review editor for the Academy of Management Review and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Organization and Environment and Organization.  Dr. Nord is a member of AOM, ASA, APA and INFORMS.