Professor Michael Mayer
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Job Title:
Associate Dean Postgraduate Taught Students,
Professor - Strategy, Convenor of Business Economics & Strategy Group
Subject Group:
Strategic and International Management
Key Research Interests:
Strategy, Institutions, Organizations, Comparative and International Business Organization and Management.
Research Interests
My main research interests are focused on developing our understanding of the way in which strategies, and associated processes and practices, relate to the wider institutional setting in which organizations operate. In this context I have a particular interest in diversification strategy, the relationship between strategy and organization, and international management. A related area of interest lies in comparative business organization and management.
PhD Supervision
I welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates in the broad areas of strategic and international management with a particular interest in comparative and longitudinal studies. More specifically, I wish to encourage students interested in researching the relationship between the strategic development of organisations and the wider institutional context in which they operate.
Publications
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Books | Refereed journals papers | Book ChaptersBooks
Mayer, M., Whittington, R., Geppert, M., Matten, D. & Williams, K. 2002. Challenges for european management in a global context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
McDonald, F., Mayer, M. & Buck, T. 2004. The process of the internationalization: Strategic, cultural and policy perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Geppert, M. & Mayer, M. 2005. Global, national and local practices in multinational companies. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Refereed journal papers
Hautz J, Mayer M & Stadler C (forthcoming) Advance and Retreat. How Economics and Institutions Shaped the Fate of the Diversified Industrial Firm in Europe. International Studies of Management and Organization.
Mayer M & Smith A (2007) The practice of change: understanding the role of middle managers, emotions and tools. European Management Journal. 25(2):79-80.
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2007.02.002
Whittington R, Molloy E, Mayer M & Smith A (2006) Practices of strategising/organising: Broadening strategy work and skills. Long Range Planning. 39 (6): 615-629. DOI:10.1016/j.lrp.2006.10.004
► older publications
Mayer M & Whittington R (2004) Economics, politics and nations: Resistance to the multi-divisional form in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom 1983-1993. Journal of Management Studies. 41(7):1057-1082.DOI:N/A
Jarzabkowski P, Mayer M, Mounoud E, Nahapiet J, Rouleau L & Whittington R (2003) Taking strategy seriously: Responsibility and reform for an important social practice. Journal of Management Inquiry. 12(4):396-409. DOI:10.1177/1056492603258968
Mayer M & Whittington R (2003) Après le défi américain; Tracer le multidivisionnaire diversifié dans l'Europe. Enterprises et Histoire. 33:41-56. DOI:N/A
Mayer M & Whittington R (2003) Diversification in context: cross-national and cross-temporal extension. Strategic Management Journal. 24(8): 773-781.
DOI:10.1002/smj.334
Whittington R & Mayer M (2002) Response to kay: Chandlerism in Post-War Europe: Strategic and structural change in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 1950-1993: a comment. Industrial and Corporate Change. 11:199-205. DOI:N/A
Whittington R, Mayer M & Smith A (2002) Organising for success. People Management. 8(20): 28-34. DOI:N/A
Book Chapters
Geppert, M. & Mayer, M. 2005, Practices and Practitioners in Multinational firms. In Geppert, M. & Mayer, M. (eds.), Global, National and Local Practices in Multinational Companies: 1 - 14. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Mayer, M, & McDonald F, 2004. Strategic, Cultural and Policy Perspectives of Internationalization. In McDonald F, Mayer M, & Buck T (eds.), The Process of Internationalization: xxi – xxiv. Basingtoke, Palgrave/AIB.
Michael, M. & Whittington, R. 2002. For Boundedness in the Study of Comparative and International Business: The Case of the Diversified Multidivisional Corporation. In Geppert M, Matten D, Williams K, Challenges for European Management in a Global Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
