James Patrick (Jim) Walsh (born 1953) is an American organizational theorist, and professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, noted for his contributions in the field of organizational memory[1][2] and organizational learning.
[3] With Ungson (1991) he provided the first integrative framework for thinking about organizational memory.
[7] Over the years he has been a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1997), the Australian Graduate School of Management (2006), the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business (2012), the University of Western Australia Business School (2013), the Koç University Graduate School of Business (2013) the Vlerick Business School in Belgium (2013), INSEAD (2013), and the University of Pretoria (2019).
From 2015 to 2019 he was also appointed Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, and in 2012 was elected Fellow at the Centre for Business Ethics, Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa.
[7] Since the 1980s Walsh has published numerous articles concerning topics such as the state of his profession, corporation in society, corporate governance, managerial and organizational cognition, and on other interests.