Professor Andrew William John Thomson, OBE, FBAM (26 January 1936 – 26 December 2014) was a British academic and historian who specialized in management education and industrial relations.

In 1965, he returned to Cornell to do a PhD, which he obtained in 1968 with a thesis "The reaction of the American Federation of Labor and the Trades Union Congress to labor law, 1900-1935" [2] In 1968 he joined the Department of Social and Economic Research in the University of Glasgow, as lecturer, rising through the ranks to Professor of Business Policy in the recently formed Department of Management Studies in 1978.

He was also Dean of the Scottish Business School, a joint activity of the Glasgow, Edinburgh and Strathclyde Universities, from 1983 until 1987.

He was actively engaged in research during his career and his publications, with a range of co-authors, include: The Nationalised Transport Industries (1973); The Industrial Relations Act (1975); Grievance Procedures (1976); Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector (1978); A Portrait of Pay (1990); and Changing Patterns of Management Development (2001).

After his retirement he moved to New Zealand, where was involved with a number of institutions, including the Rotary Club of Bay of Islands, where he served as president in 2006-2007, and Focus Paihia, the community organization representing the town where he lived.