Publication:
Journal Articles (Emergent)
The Influence of Trade Associations: towards a framework for understanding trade association activities and impact’. With Nelson Phillips and Tazeeb Rajwani. Intended submission to Academy of Management Review.
‘Do All Companies Need to Be Good Citizens? Reconsidering the strategy-social responsibility interplay’. With Jonathan Doh and Tazeeb Rajwani. Intended submission to Academy of Management Perspectives.
‘Management Consulting and Enterprise Architecture: driving change and performance through developing full service delivery models’. With Branko Kalpic. Intended submission to Long Range Planning.
‘Internationalization Strategy and the Institutionalization of Political Risk Assessment’.
Intended submission to Journal of International Business Studies.
Journal Articles (Published/Forthcoming)
‘Designing Lobbying Capabilities: managerial choices in unpredictable environments’. With Tazeeb Rajwani. European Business Review, Volume 23, No. 2, 2011 (forthcoming).
‘Multilateralism and the Multinational Enterprise: the WTO’s influence on strategy process’, Business and Politics, Volume 11, No. 2, 2009. With Steven McGuire and Johan Lindeque.
‘Vision by Design: a reflexive approach to enterprise regeneration’, Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 29, No. 2, 2008, pp. 4-13. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey.
‘Taking by Storm: a breakout strategy’, Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 28, No. 2, 2007, pp. 22-29. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey.
‘Banking on Global Success: internationalization strategy and its limitations (the case of Allied Irish Banks)’, Thunderbird International Business Review, Volume 48, No. 3, 2006, pp. 405-424. With Denis G. Harrington.
‘Adjusting to Liberalization: tracing the impact of the WTO on the European textiles and chemicals industries’, Business and Politics, Vol. 7, No.2, 2005, pp. 1-25. With Steven M. McGuire.
‘Embracing and Exploiting Industry Turbulence: the strategic transformation of Aer Lingus’, European Management Journal, Vol. 23, No.4, 2005, pp. 450-57. With Denis G. Harrington and Tazeeb Rajwani.
‘When Being the Lowest Cost is Not Enough: building a successful low fare airline business model in Asia’, Journal of Air Transport Management, Vol. 11, No.6, 2005, pp. 355-62. With Stanislav Solomko.
‘Governing the Electronic Market Space: appraising the apparent global consensus on e-commerce self-regulation’, Management International Review, Vol. 42, No.1, 2003, pp. 51-71, Special Issue on ‘International Business Development and the Internet’. With Steven M. McGuire.
‘Managing Strategically in Turbulent Times: insights from the low fare airline business’, Irish Journal of Management, Vol. 24, No.1, 2003, pp. 173-93.
‘Missing the Target: assessing the role of government in bridging the European equity gap and enhancing economic growth’, Venture Capital: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Vol.4, No.1, 2002, pp. 7-23.
‘Supranational Governance and Corporate Strategy: the emerging role of the World Trade Organization’, International Business Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001, pp. 217-33. With Steven M. McGuire.
‘Advancing to the Virtual Value Chain: learning from the Dell model’, Irish Journal of Management, Vol.22, No.1, 2001, pp. 91-112. With Kevin P. Michaels.
‘Flying Lessons: learning from Ryanair’s cost reduction culture’, Journal of Air Transportation, Vol. 5 No.1, 2000, pp. 89-106.
‘The Limits of Price Leadership: needs-based positioning strategy and the long term competitiveness of Europe’s low fare airlines’, Long Range Planning, Vol.32, No.6, 1999, pp. 573-86.
‘Evaluating European Competitiveness: measurements and models for a successful business environment’, European Business Journal, Vol.11, No.4, 1999, pp. 195-205.
‘Governing the Skies: conditions for the Europeanization of airline policy’, Journal of Public Policy, Vol.19, No.1, 1999, pp. 91-112.
‘Industrial Policy Partners: explaining the European level firm-Commission interplay for electronics’, Policy and Politics, Vol.24, No.4, 1996, pp. 425-36.
Professional Articles (Published)
‘Low Cost Carriers Leave Legacy Airlines Stuck in the Mire’. Sunday Tribune, October 18, 2009.
‘Don't Turn a Crisis into a Panic’: four strategic responses to the global recession’. Capgemini Consulting Review, Summer 2009.
‘Flying Through the Storm’. Management Focus, Issue 27, Autumn 2009.
‘Following in their Tracks: how U2 can do the business for students’. Irish Independent, Thursday, January 22, 2009.
‘Diseñar la Visión’. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey. Gestión, Vol.13, No.5, September/October 2008 (Spain and Latin America).
‘Building Breakout Strategy: positive and negative leadership capabilities in action’. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey. Perform: performance management in action, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2008 (UK).
‘Guru Interview: Dr Thomas Lawton’. Emerald Management First, August 2007 (USA).
‘Invitación a Quebrar las Reglas’. Gestión, Vol.13, No.1, January/February 2008 (Spain and Latin America).
‘Building Breakout Leadership’. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey. South East Business Magazine, February 2007 (Ireland).
‘Building Breakout Strategy: positive and negative leadership capabilities in action’. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey. Effective Executive, January 2007 (India).
‘Ryanair’s Bid for Aer Lingus’. TravelMole: online community for travel and tourism industry, October 6, 2006 (global).
Books (Emergent)
Aligning for Advantage: winning strategies for the social and political arenas. With Jonathan Doh and Tazeeb Rajwani. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Ed. The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy. London, UK/New York, USA: Routledge. Forthcoming 2012.
Books (Published)
Ed. Strategic Management in Aviation: critical essays. Aldershot, UK/Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate 2008, 416 pages.
Breakout Strategy: meeting the challenge of double-digit growth. With Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007, 334 pages.
* Japanese version published by Nikkei Business Publications in November 2007.
Cleared for Take-Off: structure and strategy in the low fare airlines business, Aldershot, UK/Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Studies in Aviation Management and Economics, 2002, 221 pages.
Ed., Strange Power: shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy, Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate, 2000, 480 pages (hardback and paperback). Co-edited with James N. Rosenau and Amy C. Verdun.
Ed., European Industrial Policy and Competitiveness: concepts and instruments, Basingstoke: Macmillan Business/New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999, 278 pages (hardback and paperback).
Technology and the New Diplomacy: the creation and control of EC industrial policy for semiconductors, Aldershot/Brookfield: Avebury, 1997, 282 pages.
Book Chapters
‘Reaching Across the Market: the dynamics of business-government relations’. In David Coen and Wynn Grant (eds.) (2009) The Oxford Handbook on Business-Government Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Jonathan Story.
‘U2: keeping the rhythm’. In James Cunningham and Brian Harney (eds.) (2009) Strategy and Strategists, Oxford: Oxford University Press. With James Cunningham and Denis Harrington.
‘Keeping the Legacy Carrier Competitive: how can mature airlines stay ahead in the low fare airline era?’ In John F. O’Connell (ed.) (2009) Competition in Aviation, Aldershot: Ashgate. With Alan Gogbashian.
‘U2: keeping the rhythm’. In James Cunningham and Denis Harrington (eds.) (2009) Irish Management 2.0: new managerial priorities in a changing economy, Dublin: Blackhall. With James Cunningham and Denis Harrington.
‘Domestic Inter-Firm Networks and Corporate Internationalization: a cross-industry study of Taiwanese SMEs’. In Ilan Alon and John R. McIntyre (eds.) (2008) The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. With Ku-Ho Lin.
‘Does the WTO Matter?’ in Sushil Vachani (ed.) (2007) Transformations in Global Governance: implications for multinationals and other stakeholders, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. With Steven M. McGuire.
‘Polycentric Governance Meets the New Economy: the United States, the European Union and transnational regulation’ in G.P.E. Walzenbach (ed.) (2006) European Governance: policy making between politicization and control, Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate. With Steven M. McGuire and G.P.E. Walzenbach.
‘Aer Lingus’ in Thomas Cooney (ed.) (2005) Irish Cases in Entrepreneurship, Dublin: Blackhall. With Denis G. Harrington and Tazeeb Rajwani.
‘National Rules on Strategy Context: Embraer and Brazil’s aerospace program’ in S. Benjamin Prasad and Pervez N. Ghauri (eds.) (2004) Global Firms and Emerging Markets in the Age of Anxiety, Praeger: Westport, CT. With Steven M. McGuire.
‘The New Global Electronic Economy: consensus, confusion, contradictions’ in George Von Furstenberg and John Kirton (eds.) (2001) New Directions in Global Economic Governance: creating international order for the Twenty First Century, G8 Series; Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate.
‘Uniting European Industrial Policy: A Commission agenda for integration’, in Neil Nugent (ed.) (2000), At the Heart of the Union: Studies of the European Commission, London: Macmillan. 2nd edition (paperback).
‘The Evolving Global Production Structure: implications for international political economy’, in Lawton, Rosenau, Verdun (eds.) (2000) Strange Power: Shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy, Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate. With Kevin P. Michaels.
‘Fostering Invention and Innovation: Europe’s collaborative R&D initiatives’, in Thomas C. Lawton (ed.) (1999) European Industrial Policy and Competitiveness, Basingstoke: Macmillan Business.
‘Promoting Competitiveness: inward investment incentives and enterprise policy’, in Thomas C. Lawton (ed.) (1999), European Industrial Policy and Competitiveness, Basingstoke: Macmillan Business. With Michael R. Hodges.
‘The Course of EC Technology Policy (European attempts to enhance industrial competitiveness through R&D collaboration)’, in K. Kuilwijk and R. Wright (eds.) (1996), European Trade and Industry in the 21st Century: future directions in EC law and policy, Nijmegen: Nexed.
Other Academic Output (Published)
Thomas Lawton and Jonathan Doh. 2010. The Ascendance of AirAsia: building a successful budget airline in Asia. Ivey Publishing, the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Case reference 9B08M054 (15 pages).
- Teaching Note reference 8B08M54 (8 pages).
- Chinese language version, reference number 9B08MC54.
‘Can the Budget Airline Model Succeed in Asia? The story of AirAsia’, case study in Richard Hodgetts, Fred Luthans and Jonathan Doh (2005), International Management, 6th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. With Jonathan Doh.
‘The Internationalization of Allied Irish Banks’, case study in Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy, 7th ed., London: FT Prentice Hall. With Denis G. Harrington.
Thomas C. Lawton and Denis G. Harrington. 2003. The Internationalization of Allied Irish Banks, European Case Clearing House. Case reference number 303-015-1 (24 pages).
- Teaching Note reference number 303-015-8 (12 pages).
- French language version, reference number F303-015-1.
* Case selected for the 2003 John Molson MBA International Case Competition Final and finalist in the 2002 AIB-CIBER Case Competition sponsored by the Academy of International Business and Indiana University CIBER.
‘The Creation and Control of EC Industrial Policy: lessons from the electronics sector’, 1996, Dublin City University Business School, research paper No.7.
PhD - Irish Government scholarship (1991 – 1994); European Commission Scholarship (1994 - 1995).
MSc - Irish Examiner Postgraduate Research Scholarship, awarded by the national newspaper through University College Cork (1990 - 1991).