Andrew Pettigrew

Andrew Marshall Pettigrew ( born June 11, 1944) is a professor of strategy and organization of the Saïd Business School and Senior Fellow Golding at Brasenose College, both at the University of Oxford. In addition to teaching Pettigrew also working for consulting companies and is the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Panel on McKinsey's global consulting practice. 2009 Pettigrew took a visiting professorship at the BI Norwegian Business School.

Career

Pettigrew has a degree in Anthropology and Sociology of Liverpool University ( 1965) and a Ph.D. in Industrial Sociology at Manchester Business School. 1969 changes Pettigrew at Yale University where he was able to make important contacts. 1975-85 he studied the British conglomerate Imperial Chemical Industries and put the research foundations for his later academic career. In 1985, he returned to where he founded the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change for the University of Warwick and academic teaching. From October 2003 Dean of the University of Bath was until he moved to Saïd Business School in September 2008.

Research interests

Pettigrew's research was the first time used the contextual and analytical considerations of the processes in strategy development, change management, decision theory and power. This Pettigrew studied classical management issues such as decision-making processes under the influence of organitionsinterner policy, strategy and change processes often in large companies. His works reflect the classic strategy approach, but recognize the reality - generating nature of decision and action processes at. To run processes of change after his presentation, although in four distinct steps ( development concerns, develop understanding and recognition of the problem in the relevant public, planning and action, stabilizing the results ), but he also describes the incremental nature and the adaptation of organizational environment of inside out.

Honors

2003 Pettigrew became the third professor at a business school, who was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy. In addition, Pettigrew is a founding member of the British Academy of Management. He is a member of the U.S. Academy of Management and the first non- American to be nominated by the Academy for the Distinguished Scholar ( 2002). He was awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Management awarded and he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in 2009. Pettigrew received honorary doctorates from the University of Linköping (1989 ), the University of Liverpool (2010) and the Copenhagen Business School ( 2010).

Bibliography

Pettigrew is the author or co-author of 15 books and over 100 articles. 58 of his works in 143 publications are available in three languages ​​by 4533 libraries.

• Handbook of strategy and management; 2002, Sage Publication;
• Perspectives on strategic change; 1993, Kluwer Academic Publishers;
• The politics of organizational decision -making; Tavistock, 1973
• The innovating organization; 2000 Sage Publications
• Managing change for competitive success; 1991 Wiley & Sons;
• Shaping strategic change: making change in Large Organizations: the case of the National Health Service; 1992, Sage Publications;