Gregory Jackson is a Professor of Comparative Business at King’s Business School. His research examines how capitalism is organised and governed across firms, markets, and states, with a focus on corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), employment relations, and civil society. He studies how institutions shape business behaviour, its impact on inequality and the climate transition, and how governance can improve social and environmental outcomes. His work takes a sociological and cross-nationally comparative approach that extends to countries of both the Global North and South.

His teaching on these topics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels is informed by critical thinking about socio-economic problems and business ethics, and emphasises dialogue between concepts, theory, and empirical evidence. Methodologically, he draws on qualitative, quantitative, and historical approaches, as well as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

Gregory has published widely in management, organisation studies, and economic sociology, including in Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Regulation & Governance. He serves the scholarly community as Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Editor for the Provocations section of Human Resource Management Journal, and former Editor-in-Chief of Socio-Economic Review.

His research has attracted competitive funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Commission (including FP7 and Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE), the ESRC, and major foundations. Recognition for his work includes the JIBS Decade Award, an Einstein Research Fellowship, listing among Thomson Reuters’ ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’, and inclusion in the Stanford/Elsevier ‘top 2%’ world scientists database.

Prior to joining King’s, Gregory held positions at Freie Universität Berlin (Professor of Employment Relations and Labor Politics) and at Loughborough University London (Professor of Comparative Management), as well as the University of Bath (Professor of Business and Society), the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo (Fellow), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (Research Scientist). He earned his PhD and MA in Sociology from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Professor Jackson is currently accepting new PhD students.