Thomas C. Lawton

Biography

Thomas C. Lawton is Professor of Strategy and International Business, Director of the Global Competitiveness Institute, and Academic Director of the UCC-Irish Management Institute at Cork University Business School, University College Cork. He is Visiting Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the USA and Surrey Business School, University of Surrey in the UK, and an Associate at the Møller Institute, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on nonmarket strategy, international political risk management, and business model innovation. He has been awarded Newton Fund and British Academy/Leverhulme funding to investigate how companies design and develop nonmarket capabilities and to study the role of multinationals in institution building in Africa’s Great Lakes region. He has published eight books, including Breakout Strategy (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and Aligning for Advantage (Oxford University Press, 2014), and over 50 papers in journals such as Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of World Business. He is Associate Editor of Long Range Planning, and the Strategy Matters Series Editor for Routledge. Thomas has served as a non-executive director and is an internationally experienced consultant, speaker, and executive educator. He holds degrees from University College Cork and the London School of Economics and a doctorate from the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the RSA and Fellow of the CMI. He has held visiting and full-time faculty appointments at Cranfield University, EMLYON, Imperial College London, INSEAD, Open University, UC Berkeley and University of London.

Other Activities

25/04/2019 - Academy of International Business UK-I
25/04/2019 - Academy of International Business UK-I
13/12/2018 - European International Business Academy
22/09/2018 - Strategic Management Society
03/09/2018 - Irish Academy of Management
03/09/2018 - Keynote Address to the Doctoral Colloquium
11/08/2018 - Academy of Management
28/10/2017 - Strategic Management Society
05/09/2017 - British Academy of Management
01/07/2017 - Academy of International Business
03/12/2016 - European International Business Academy
17/09/2016 - Senior scholar panel on non market strategy
17/09/2016 - Speaker on conference plenary panel
17/09/2016 - Strategic Management Society
05/08/2016 - Keynote speaker, Professional Development Workshop on Knowledge in 21st Century Management Consulting
03/10/2015 - Chair and discussant for expert panel on nonmarket strategy
08/08/2015 - Academy of Management
20/09/2014 - Co-organiser and co-chair of expert panel on nonmarket strategy
02/08/2014 - Plenary speaker, Professional Development Workshop
13/06/2014 - 31st Irish Accounting and Finance Association (IAFA) Annual Conference

Pedagogic Experiences

2020 - Leadership, Strategy and Business: Capstone Seminar Series, University College Cork, MBA
2020 - Professional Diploma in Strategy and Innovation, University College Cork, Non CUBS Programme
2020 - Business Research Skills, University College Cork, PhD (Commerce) Management & Marketing (FT)/(PT)
2019 - Business Strategy Simulation, University College Cork, MSc Strategic Marketing and Practice

Research Domains

Business models
Business development and diversification
Business Innovation
Business Strategy
Business Performance and Strategy
Competitiveness
Competition, Governance and Society
International Management
International Trade and Competitiveness
Strategic management

Publications

Journal article

Year	Publication
2018	LAWTON, T., MBALYOHERE, C. (2018). Engaging Stakeholders Through Corporate Political Activity: Insights From MNE Nonmarket Strategy in an Emerging African Market. Journal of International Management. doi:10.1016/j.intman.2018.04.006. Details
2018	JOHN, A., LAWTON, T. (2018). International Political Risk Management: Perspectives, Approaches and Emerging Agendas. International Journal of Management Reviews. doi:10.1111/ijmr.12166. Details
2018	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2018). Introduction: Revisiting the Roles and Responsibilities of Trade Associations. Journal of Management Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1056492616688996. Details
2018	PUCK, J., LAWTON, T., MOHR, A. (2018). The Corporate Political Activity of MNCs: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. Management International Review. doi:10.1007/s11575-018-0364-0. Details
2019	DE VILLA, M. A., LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., MELLAHI, K. (2019). To engage or not to engage with host governments: Corporate political activity and host country political risk. Global Strategy Journal. doi:10.1002/gsj.1205. Details
2018	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., MINTO, A. (2018). Why Trade Associations Matter: Exploring Function, Meaning, and Influence. Journal of Management Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1056492616688853. Details
2017	MBALYOHERE, C., LAWTON, T., BOOJIHAWON, R., VINEY, H. (2017). Corporate political activity and location-based advantage: MNE responses to institutional transformation in Uganda's electricity industry. Journal of World Business. doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2017.06.006. Details
2015	DE VILLA, M. A., RAJWANI, T., LAWTON, T. (2015). Market entry modes in a multipolar world: Untangling the moderating effect of the political environment. International Business Review. doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2014.10.001. Details
2015	RAJWANI, T., LAWTON, T., PHILLIPS, N. (2015). The “Voice of Industry”: Why management researchers should pay more attention to trade associations. Strategic Organization. doi:10.1177/1476127015590963. Details
2014	PILKINGTON, A., LAWTON, T. (2014). Divided by a common language? Transnational insights into epistemological and methodological approaches to strategic management research in English-speaking Countries. Long Range Planning. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2013.08.001. Details
2014	DOH, J. P., LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., PAROUTIS, S. (2014). Why your company may need a chief external officer. Upgrading external affairs can help align strategy and improve competitive advantage. Organizational Dynamics. doi:10.1016/j.orgdyn.2014.03.003. Details
2013	LAWTON, T., S., M., MCGUIRE, S., T., R., RAJWANI, T. (2013). Corporate Political Activity: A Literature Review and Research Agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2012.00337.x. Details
2013	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., DOH, J. (2013). The antecedents of political capabilities: A study of ownership, cross-border activity and organization at legacy airlines in a deregulatory context. International Business Review. doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.04.001. Details
2012	DOH, J. P., LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2012). Advancing nonmarket strategy research: Institutional perspectives in a changing world. Academy of Management Perspectives. doi:10.5465/amp.2012.0041. Details
2012	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., REINMOELLER, P. (2012). Do you have a survival instinct? Leveraging genetic codes to achieve fit in hostile business environments. Business Horizons. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2011.10.002. Details
2011	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2011). Designing lobbying capabilities: Managerial choices in unpredictable environments. European Business Review. doi:10.1108/09555341111111192. Details
2011	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T., O'KANE, C. (2011). Strategic reorientation and business turnaround: the case of global legacy airlines. Journal of Strategy and Management. doi:10.1108/17554251111152252. Details
2008	FINKELSTEIN, S., HARVEY, C., LAWTON, T. (2008). Vision by design: A reflexive approach to enterprise regeneration. Journal of Business Strategy. doi:10.1108/02756660810858107. Details
2007	LAWTON, T., FINKELSTEIN, S., HARVEY, C. (2007). Taking by storm: A breakout strategy. Journal of Business Strategy. doi:10.1108/02756660710732620. Details
2006	LAWTON, T., HARRINGTON, D. G. (2006). Banking on global success: Internationalization strategy and its limitations (The case of allied irish banks). Thunderbird International Business Review. doi:10.1002/tie.20102. Details
2005	LAWTON, T., MCGUIRE, S. (2005). Adjusting to liberalization: Tracing the impact of the WTO on the European textiles and chemicals industries. Business and Politics.
2005	HARRINGTON, D. G., LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2005). Embracing and exploiting industry turbulence: The strategic transformation of aer lingus. European Management Journal. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2005.06.004. Details
2005	LAWTON, T., SOLOMKO, S. (2005). When being the lowest cost is not enough: Building a successful low-fare airline business model in Asia. Journal of Air Transport Management. doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2005.03.001. Details
2002	LAWTON, T. (2002). Missing the target. assessing the role of government in bridging the European equity gap and enhancing economic growth. Venture Capital: an international journal of entrepreneurial finance. doi:10.1080/13691060110064246. Details
2001	LAWTON, T., MCGUIRE, S. M. (2001). Supranational governance and corporate strategy: The emerging role of the World Trade Organization. International Business Review. doi:10.1016/S0969-5931(00)00047-0. Details
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). Governing the skies: Conditions for the europeanisation of airline policy. Journal of Public Policy. doi:10.1017/S0143814X99000197. Details
2001	LAWTON, T. (2001). Advancing to the virtual value chain. Learning from the Dell model. Irish Journal of Management.
1996	LAWTON, T. (1996). Industrial policy partners: Explaining the European level firm-Commission interplay for electronics. Policy and Politics.
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). The limits of price leadership: Needs-based positioning strategy and the long-term competitiveness of Europe's low fare airlines. Long Range Planning.
2009	LAWTON, T., LINDEQUE, J. P., MCGUIRE, S. M. (2009). Multilateralism and the multinational enterprise. Business and Politics.
2020	LAWTON, T., LIEDONG, T. A., RAJWANI, T. (2020). Information and nonmarket strategy. Conceptualizing the interrelationship between big data and corporate political activity. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120039. Details
2001	LAWTON, T. (2001). Advancing to the virtual value chain. Learning from the Dell model. Irish Journal of Management.
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). Evaluating European competitiveness. measurements and models for a successful business environment. European Business Journal.
2020	LAWTON, T., DOROBANTU, S., RAJWANI, T., SUN, P. (2020). The Implications of COVID?19 for Nonmarket Strategy Research. Journal of Management Studies. doi:10.1111/joms.12627. Details
2021	LAWTON, T., DUANMU, J.-L. (2021). Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve? Journal of World Business, 56 (5). doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101243. Details
2020	LAWTON, T., TARBA, S. Y., JANSEN, J., MOM, T., RAISCH, S. (2020). A microfoundational perspective of organizational ambidexterity:. Critical review and research directions. Long Range Planning, 53 (6). doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2020.102048. Details
2021	LAWTON, T., WHITE III, G., RAJWANI, T. (2021). Open for business in a closed world?. Managing MNE nonmarket strategy in times of populism and geopolitical uncertainty. Multinational Business Review. doi:10.1108/mbr-06-2021-0077. Details
2022	DATTEE, B., ARREGLE, J.-L., BARBIERI, P., LAWTON, T., ANGWIN, D. (2022). The Dynamics of Organizational Autonomy. Oscillations at Automobili Lamborghini. Administrative Science Quarterly. doi:10.1177/00018392221091850. Details

Book

Year	Publication
2018	LAWTON, T., ROSENAU, J. N., VERDUN, A. C. (2018). Strange power: Shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy. Taylor and Francis Inc. Details
2014	LAWTON, T., DOH, J., RAJWANI, T. (2014). Aligning for advantage. competitive strategies for the political and social arenas. Oxford University Press. Details
2007	LAWTON, T., FINKELSTEIN, S., HARVEY, C. (2007). Breakout strategy. Meeting the challenge of double-digit growth. McGraw-Hill.
2002	LAWTON, T. (2002). Cleared for take-off. structure and strategy in the low fare airlines business. Routledge. Details
1997	LAWTON, T. (1997). Technology and the new diplomacy. The creation and control of EC industrial policy for semiconductors. Ashgate Publishing.
2017	LAWTON, T. (2017). Cleared for take-off. Structure and strategy in the low fare airline business. Routledge. Details
2017	LAWTON, T. (2017). Strategic Management in Aviation. Critical essays. Routledge. Details
2015	LAWTON, T. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy. Routledge. Details
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). European industrial policy and competitiveness. Concepts and instruments. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book chapter

Year	Publication
2018	LAWTON, T. (2018). Introduction: Looking beyond the confines. Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2018	EARNEST, D. C., PAULY, L. W., LAWTON, T., ROSENAU, J. N., VERDUN, A. C. (2018). Reflections: Blurring the boundaries and shaping the agenda. Strange power : shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2018	LAWTON, T., JOHN, A., MEADOWS, M. (2018). Managing cross-border M&A. Three approaches to takeover in Europe. The Routledge companion to European business. Routledge. Details
2015	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2015). Introduction: The evolution of non-market strategy in theory and practice. The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy. Routledge.
2012	LAWTON, T. (2012). U2: keeping the rhythm. Strategy and strategists. Oxford University Press.
2008	LAWTON, T. (2008). Domestic inter-firm networks and corporate internationalization. A cross-industry study of Taiwanese SMEs. The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises. Palgrave Macmillan.
2006	LAWTON, T., S.M., M., WALZENBACH, G. (2006). Polycentric governance meets the new economy. The United States, the European Union and transnational regulation. European Governance: policy making between politicization and control. Routledge.
2004	LAWTON, T., S.M., M. (2004). National Rules on Strategy Context. Embraer and Brazil’s aerospace program. Global Firms and Emerging Markets in the Age of Anxiety. Praeger.
2000	LAWTON, T. (2000). Uniting European industrial policy. A Commission agenda for integration. At the Heart of the Union: Studies of the European Commission. Palgrave Macmillan.
1996	LAWTON, T. (1996). The course of EC technology policy. European attempts to enhance industrial competitiveness through R&D collaboration. European Trade and Industry in the 21st Century: future directions in EC law and policy. Nexed Editions.
2019	LAWTON, T., DOH, J., RAJWANI, T. (2019). An uncomfortable relationship: NGOs, trade associations, and the development of industry self-regulation. Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations. Routledge.
2011	GOGBASHIAN, A., LAWTON, T. (2011). Airline strategy: Keeping the legacy carrier competitive. How can mature airlines stay ahead in the low-fare airline era?. Air Transport in the 21st Century: Key Strategic Developments. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2006	MCGUIRE, S. M., LAWTON, T. (2006). Does the WTO matter?. Transformations in Global Governance: implications for multinationals and other stakeholders. Edward Elgar Publishing. Details
2010	STORY, J., LAWTON, T. (2010). Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business-State Relations. The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government. Details
2015	JOHN, A., RAJWANI, T. S., LAWTON, T. (2015). Corporate political activity. The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy. Routledge.
2018	LAWTON, T., MICHAELS, K. P. (2018). The evolving global production structure: Implications for international political economy. Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2018	LAWTON, T., ROSENAU, J. N., VERDUN, A. C. (2018). Preface. Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2017	LAWTON, T. (2017). The new global electronic economy: Consensus, confusion, contradictions. New Directions in Global Economic Governance: Managing Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Taylor and Francis Inc.
2019	LAWTON, T., DOH, J., RAJWANI, T. (2019). An uncomfortable relationship: NGOs, trade associations, and the development of industry self-regulation. Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations. Routledge. Details
2012	LAWTON, T. (2012). U2: keeping the rhythm. Strategy and strategists. Oxford University Press.
2004	LAWTON, T. (2004). National Rules on Strategy Context. Embraer and Brazil’s aerospace program. Global Firms and Emerging Markets in the Age of Anxiety. Praeger.
2000	LAWTON, T. (2000). Uniting European industrial policy. A Commission agenda for integration. At the Heart of the Union: Studies of the European Commission. Palgrave Macmillan.
1996	LAWTON, T. (1996). The course of EC technology policy. European attempts to enhance industrial competitiveness through R&D collaboration. European Trade and Industry in the 21st Century: future directions in EC law and polic. Nexed Editions.

Edited book

Year	Publication
2015	LAWTON, T., RAJWANI, T. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy. Routledge. Details
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). European industrial policy and competitiveness. Concepts and instruments. Palgrave Macmillan.
2007	LAWTON, T. (2007). Strategic Management in Aviation. Critical essays. Routledge. Details

Journal issue

Year	Publication
1999	LAWTON, T. (1999). Evaluating European competitiveness. measurements and models for a successful business environment. European Business Journal.

Magazine article

Year	Publication
2001	LAWTON, T. (2001). Flying lessons. Learning from Ryanair's cost reduction culture. Journal of Air Transportation World Wide.

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