author | editor | imposter-philosopher
Born in Chicago and settled in Britain many years ago, Don has been a journalist – mainly at Reuters – living in four countries and working in dozens of others on assignment in reporting, editing, and executive positions. He has worked as a management consultant and business strategist, before “retiring” to academia, where he held professorial roles and taught corporate strategy and governance and financial journalism. He is now Emeritus Professor at Bournemouth University in Britain.
He has written two books on corporate governance:
- Corporate Governance: Principles and Issues (Sage, 2011)
- The Cadbury Code and Recurrent Crisis (Palgrave, 2020)
His first novel, The Fleetwood Half-Orphan Asylum, is published by Stourbend Editions, via BookLocker.com.
He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (BA, with High Honors and Distinction, MA); business administration at the University of Warwick (MBA, with Distinction); management studies at the University of Liverpool (PhD); and creative writing at the University of Exeter (PhD).
His academic research ranges from corporate governance to organisation studies to literary theory, writing papers published using theoretical bases from economics, sociology, psychology, political theory, anthropology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
Now he writes two Substacks:
- Don Nordberg (is/on) Writing – donnordbergwriting.substack.com
- How to govern [not like that] – donaldnordberg.substack.com