Thomas C. Lawton is an award-winning strategic management author, educator, and advisor. In addition to being an Associate at the Møller Institute, he holds permanent and visiting professorial appointments in Strategy and International Business at University College Cork, Ireland, Brunel University of London, U.K., and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA.
Thomas serves as Editor-in-Chief of the leading international strategy journal, Long Range Planning. His research focuses on business model innovation for corporate turnaround and growth trajectories, and strategies for stakeholder engagement and nonmarket risk and reputation management when entering and embedding in international markets.
Professor Lawton has published more than 60 scientific papers and eight books. These include, Breakout Strategy: meeting the challenge of double-digit growth (McGraw-Hill) and Aligning for Advantage: competitive strategies for the political and social arenas (Oxford University Press). His forthcoming book is the Cambridge Handbook of Nonmarket Strategy in a Global Context (Cambridge University Press).
Thomas holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, an MSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics in the U.K., and a BA (Hons) from University College Cork in Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). He has served as a company director and has 30 years’ experience as a consultant and advisor on leadership development, strategic growth, and corporate internationalisation.