Professor Thomas C. Lawton

Thomas Lawton is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey. He also has academic affiliations at University College Cork in Ireland and Dartmouth College in the USA.
Professor Lawton is an authority on non-market strategy, particularly in the domain of corporate political activity and in an international business context. His research focuses on strategies for stakeholder engagement and corporate risk and reputation management when entering and embedding in foreign markets. He also works on business model innovation during corporate turnaround and international expansion.

Professor Lawton is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the highly ranked strategy journal, Long Range Planning, and he has published in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Perspectives, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, and Strategic Organization. He is the author or editor of 8 books, including Strange Power and Strategic Management in Aviation. His best known, Breakout Strategy: meeting the challenge of double-digit growth, was translated into Japanese by Nikkei and widely commended for its global focus and relevance to practicing managers and aspiring leaders. His most recent books are Aligning for Advantage: competitive strategies for the political and social arenas (Oxford University Press, 2014), and The Routledge Companion to Non-Market Strategy (Routledge, 2015). He is also the Strategy Matters Series Editor for Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).