Change Game: How Today's Global Trends are Shaping Tomorrow's Companies

Having undertaken research and consultancy assignments in more than 20 different countries and across a range of companies over the last 30 years, Peter Lawrence is well-placed to offer insights into what have been the major international factors and trends affecting companies and what they mean for the future. In this fascinating and revealing book that is packed with cases, examples and quotes, he draws out and examines the key issues such as: competition and pressure; the joining and unjoining of companies; the new management in action; cultural diversity; relations with employees and customers; the crises of human capital; retail and manufacture; IT; reconfiguration and renewal; implications for strategy. His intelligent and thoughtful dissection will open the eyes of all directors and managers as to what they must be doing now to address the likely future outcomes for their business.

About the Author :
Peter Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of International Management at Loughborough University, UK. He was educated at the Universities of London, Cambridge, Essex and Konstanz in Germany. In the course of a long academic career he has lived or worked in Canada, Israel and the United States, as well as in several European countries including France and Germany, Sweden, Holland and Switzerland. This experience has given rise to a number of books on management in other countries, including the first book about German management by a non-German, the first book about business and management in Israel, Management in the USA and Management in Western Europe. Throughout his career Peter has gone for a 'hands on' approach, spending time in companies, working in other countries and endlessly interviewing executives and business owners about their work and companies. His extensive international teaching, research and consultancy experience has earned him recognition for his unique appreciation of global business at both a macro and a micro level. A popular speaker at international conferences, he is also a frequent contributor to the academic and business press. There are a number of inputs to this book, but first and foremost it has been shaped by interviews with owners, executives or other organizational officers at some 130 companies, mostly in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Review :
"Peter Lawrence is an international authority on management at the top of his game. This exceedingly well-written book is a must for all serious executives and scholars." R. James Krueger, Director of International Business Studies, Northern State University, USA; "Easy to read and interesting...will appeal to academics and the corporate sector." Business Advisor"