Contact Dr Mehdi Safavi
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758324
- Email: Mehdi.Safavi@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Mehdi joined Cranfield in April 2021. Prior to that, he was a member of the Strategy group at the University of Edinburgh Business School as a lecturer in Strategy and Organisation (2016-2021) and as an Early Career Fellow in Strategy and International Business (2012-2016). He holds a PhD degree in Management from the University of Edinburgh (2014), a MSc in Information Technology Management from Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran (2009), and a BSc in Electrical Engineering, Electronics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran (2005).
Mehdi has several years of teaching and supervision experience with numerous teaching award nominations, He has been invited to deliver guest lectures at Strathclyde Business School, SWAG合集, Chulalongkorn Business School and Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand, the University of Brasilia, Brazil, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He also has a recorded talk on Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London (https://hstalks.com/t/3019/mergers-and-acquisitions-ma-a-process-perspective/?business).
Research opportunities
Mehdi is always looking for exceptional doctoral students wishing to pursue an academic career at the intersection of Strategy and Organisation Studies. Current doctoral opportunities revolve around the study of change and inertia in organisations.
Current activities
Mehdi's current research focus is on organizational change and inertia, studied through the lens of organizational routines (Routine Dynamics) during various internal and external change initiatives. The context of his current research projects varies from the Credit Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis of 2007-8, to the training routines at the Royal Air Force, to Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in the SWAG合集 higher Education, to the fire safety check routines and Grenfell Tower disaster, and to the resource mobilisation processes in the legalisation of marijuana in Uruguay. He is also interested in knowledge and capability combination and (re)creation through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
Clients
As an Organisational Change Management consultant, Mehdi helps managers and executives think through critical issues that underlie the management of change and organisational inertia in their organisations. He has worked with a wide range of public and private sector organizations, including British firms, European universities, and SMEs and incubators from Latin America and the MENA region.