Duncan Angwin is the Sir Roland Smith Professor of Strategic Management at Lancaster University, UK. He is Head of the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Department and Head of the Strategic Management Research Group. He has authored over 50 refereed journal articles on strategy and mergers and acquisitions and eight books. Recent books include The Strategy Builder (2015) with Stephen Cummings and Mergers and Acquisitions (2007). He is co-author of Europe's best-selling strategy text, Exploring Strategy (11th edn, 2017) and the first textbook on the practices of strategy, Practicing Strategy (2nd edn, 2016).

For further information, see http://www.duncanangwin.com.

Stephen Cummings is Professor of Strategy at Victoria Business School in Wellington, an Academic Fellow at the Institute of Management Consultants and a Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre at Peking University in Beijing. He has authored over 50 refereed journal articles on strategy, innovation and management history. Recent books include The Strategy Builder (2015) with Duncan Angwin, Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and Innovation (2010), The Handbook of Management and Creativity (2015) and A New History of Management (2017).

For further information, see http://www.victoria.ac.nz/som/about/staff/stephen-cummings.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR COURSE PARTICIPANTS AT THE FOLLOWING
UNIVERSITIES WHO HAVE HELPED TO DEVELOP, CRITIQUE AND TEST
THE LIVE CASES AND PATHWAYS IN THIS BOOK:

ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, CHINA
DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS, AUSTRIA
ECOLE HASSANIA, CASABLANCA, MOROCCO
ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSéES, PARIS, FRANCE
HEC, PARIS, FRANCE
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON, UK
LUMS, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UK
MEDITERRANEAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (MSB), TUNIS, TUNISIA
MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL, AUSTRALIA
OTAGO UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, UK
PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA
SAïD BUSINESS SCHOOL, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, UK
UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE 1, FRANCE
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, USA
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL, BELGIUM
WARWICK BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK