Roderick Martin FBAM (born 1940) is a British sociologist and retired academic specialising in industrial relations, management and organisation behaviour.
Born on 18 October 1940, Roderick Martin was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Lancaster and at Balliol College, Oxford.
[1] He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Hugh Clegg and Philip Williams; his DPhil was awarded in 1965 for his thesis "The National Minority Movement: a study in the organisation of trade union militancy in the inter-war period".
He remained there until 1984, when he was appointed Professor of Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London.
In 1988, he moved to Templeton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow, and then in 1992 he became Professor of Organisation Studies and Director of the Glasgow Business School (the latter appointment lasting until 1996).