John M. Stopford
John Morton Stopford(September 16, 1939 – August 13, 2011) was a British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of theLondon Business School,and Head of its Strategic and International Management Area. He was known for his work on management ofmultinationals,corporate entrepreneurs, and competition.[1][2]
Life and work
[edit]Stopford obtained his engineering degrees on the job at Oxford and at MIT, and as a Ford Foundation Fellow obtained his PhD atHarvard Business School.[3]
Stopford had started his career in the late 1950s in the Rotterdam docks. Back in the UK he became craft apprentice atBaker Perkins,a British engineering company based in Peterborough. In the late 1950s he moved to the US, where he participated in theSaturn 1programme. Back in Europe in the 1960s he joinedRoyal Dutch Shellin the Netherlands and later in the UK. For some time he was managing director inGuyanaforBooker McConnell,before he started his academic career at theManchester Business School.
In 1971 Stopford moved to theLondon Business School,where he was Professor of International Business from 1974 to 2002, and founded and chaired the Strategic and International Management Area. He has been Visiting Professor at the Kiel Institute of World Economics in Germany and theNihon Universityin Tokyo, Japan. In the year 1995-96 he was elected vice-president of theAcademy of International Business.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- Stopford, John M., andLouis T. Wells.Managing the multinational enterprise: Organization of the firm and ownership of the subsidiaries.Vol. 2. New York: Basic Books, 1972.
- Stopford, John M.The world directory of multinational enterprises, 1982-83.Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 1982.
- Stopford, John M. andSusan Strangewith John S. Henley.Rival states, rival firms: Competition for world market shares.Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Baden-Fuller, Charles, and John M. Stopford.Rejuvenating the mature business: The competitive challenge.Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
- Articles, a selection
- Fouraker, Lawrence E., and John M. Stopford. "Organizational structure and the multinational strategy."Administrative Science Quarterly(1968): 47–64.
- Stopford, John M., and Charles WF Baden‐Fuller. "Creating corporate entrepreneurship."Strategic management journal15.7 (1994): 521–536.
References
[edit]- ^Galbraith, Jay R.,and Daniel A. Nathanson.Strategy implementation: The role of structure and process.St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1978.
- ^Williamson, Oliver E.The economic institutions of capitalism.Simon and Schuster, 1985.
- ^abDr John M. Stopford, BA (Oxford) SM (MIT) DBA (Harvard)Archived2016-03-04 at theWayback Machineat managementlab.org. Accessed 23.01.2015.
External links
[edit]- John Stopfordat the Academy of International Business (AIB)