Shane Hamilton
Reader in Strategy, Management and Society.

Profile

Biography

Shane Hamilton is Reader in Strategy, Management and Society at the University of York. He is the author of Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (Yale, 2018) and award-winning Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008). He is associate editor of Enterprise & Society, co-editor of American Business, Politics, and Society (University of Pennsylvania Press). He has served as the President of the Agricultural History Society and as a Trustee and Web Administrator for the Business History Conference. Shane has published articles on food and agribusiness in Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, Business History, and Agricultural History.

Departmental roles

Deputy Associate Dean of School for Research and Impact

Transformative food systems Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Research

Overview

My research focuses on the historical political economy of agribusiness. My research interests include business history, entrepreneurship, strategy, technological innovation and maintenance, regulation, international business, agrifood and environmental sustainability, technology and organizational change, and risk management. 

Teaching

Undergraduate

I teach modules in strategy, management and society and business humanities and ethics. I have extensive experience mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate researchers.

Publications

Full publications list

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York PURE Database