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Editor's Note: Below is an abstract of an interview published in the February 2002 issue of European Management Journal. A commentary on the interview by Donald Hambrick and a response by Dr. Pettigrew complete the Crosstalk in EMJ, and are also summarized below.
Andrew Pettigrew is professor of strategy and organization at Warwick Business School, U.K., where between 1985 and 1995 he founded and directed the Center for Corporate Strategy and Change. Professor Pettigrew received his training in sociology and anthropology and conducted his first research amongst the Sebeii people in Uganda. He received his Ph.D. from Manchester Business School in 1970, and has held academic appointments at Yale University, London Business School, and the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels. For part of the academic year 2001-2002, he will be a visiting professor at Harvard Business School.
Professor Pettigrew has written, coauthored, or edited 16 books, and has published in all the top management journals in the U.S. and Europe. His latest books are The Innovating Organization, edited with Evelyn Fenton (London, Sage, 2000), and the Handbook of Strategy and Management, edited with Howard Thomas and Richard Whittington (London, Sage, 2001). Andrew Pettigrew was the first chairman of the British
Academy of Management (1987-1990), and was its president from 1990 to 1993. In 1995, he was elected distinguished scholar of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management. In 1999, he was the only management academic to be elected a founding academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. His current research interests include studies of the boards and directors of the U.K's top 500 companies, and new forms of organizing and company performance in major corporations in Europe, Japan, and the U.S.
Abstract of the Interview with Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew Pettigrew ascribed the roots of his interest in strategy and change to his disciplinary training in sociology and social anthropology. His first experience of research a study of the Basibolo sect of the Sebeii people in Uganda. This exposure to anthropological methods shaped his approach to the study of power, culture, and change in organizational settings. The view that change...