Paul Sanders
Paul W. Sanders PhD (Cantab) FRHistS (London) is an Anglo-German historian. Since 2012 he is associate professor in the department of Strategy at NEOMA Business School, Reims (France), where he teaches ethics, leadership and international affairs (geopolitics). Paul obtained his doctorate in contemporary history with a thesis on the illegal market during the Occupation of France and Belgium in World War II. At the beginning of the millennium he taught history and international relations at several universities, including Oxford University and the European Humanities University in Minsk (Belarus), was deputy director of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property (London), and wrote a new official history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands in WWII, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Liberation (2005). In 2010 he advised the UK Department of Communities and Local Government in conjunction with the British Heroes of the Holocaust award. Since August 2023 he chairs the Alderney (Pickles) Enquiry.
Paul's research ethos owes a debt to Wolfgang Scheffler (1929-2008), a pioneer in Holocaust research, whose Berlin seminars he attended in 1992-1994. His research specialty is leadership ethics, with a particular interest in leadership-in-context; duress leadership; dirty hands; grey zones; narrative framing; wicked problems; ex post facto rationalizations and retrospective selection bias (‘benefit of hindsight’); blame games (scapegoating); escalation of commitment; black swans and grey rhinos. He has published on topics as diverse as the civilian administration during the Channel Islands occupation; the controversial Holocaust-era rescue & relief manager Rezső (Israel) Kasztner; RAF Bomber Command in World War II; populist leadership; the war in Ukraine, and contextual studies. In 2013 his realist critique of the idealist underpinnings of international CSR (published in 'Critical Perspectives on International Business') won an Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award.
Besides being a frequent media commentator, Paul is a critic of the globalist, instrumentalist and quantitative bias in management and leadership education; and of the impact of performative assessment management on b-school research. Both, he argues, must increase their humanities footprint. In his free-time he travels the world lecturing for Smithsonian Journeys. He has a particular affinity with mountains, cycling, hiking, Italy, Switzerland, classical, Latin and Soul music, dramatic and fine arts, cinema, French home cooking, Champagne and Burgundy wine, beer, Gothic cathedrals, Baroque, gardens and parks, heritage museums, modern urban architecture since the late 19th century, and the American spirit.
Supervisors: Jacques Bariéty (Paris-Sorbonne), Jean-Pierre Azéma (Science Po Paris), Jonathan Steinberg & Robert Tombs (Cambridge)
Address: Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Paul's research ethos owes a debt to Wolfgang Scheffler (1929-2008), a pioneer in Holocaust research, whose Berlin seminars he attended in 1992-1994. His research specialty is leadership ethics, with a particular interest in leadership-in-context; duress leadership; dirty hands; grey zones; narrative framing; wicked problems; ex post facto rationalizations and retrospective selection bias (‘benefit of hindsight’); blame games (scapegoating); escalation of commitment; black swans and grey rhinos. He has published on topics as diverse as the civilian administration during the Channel Islands occupation; the controversial Holocaust-era rescue & relief manager Rezső (Israel) Kasztner; RAF Bomber Command in World War II; populist leadership; the war in Ukraine, and contextual studies. In 2013 his realist critique of the idealist underpinnings of international CSR (published in 'Critical Perspectives on International Business') won an Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award.
Besides being a frequent media commentator, Paul is a critic of the globalist, instrumentalist and quantitative bias in management and leadership education; and of the impact of performative assessment management on b-school research. Both, he argues, must increase their humanities footprint. In his free-time he travels the world lecturing for Smithsonian Journeys. He has a particular affinity with mountains, cycling, hiking, Italy, Switzerland, classical, Latin and Soul music, dramatic and fine arts, cinema, French home cooking, Champagne and Burgundy wine, beer, Gothic cathedrals, Baroque, gardens and parks, heritage museums, modern urban architecture since the late 19th century, and the American spirit.
Supervisors: Jacques Bariéty (Paris-Sorbonne), Jean-Pierre Azéma (Science Po Paris), Jonathan Steinberg & Robert Tombs (Cambridge)
Address: Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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