This book is grounded in the research and writing of the two
authors: on one side, the work Howard Thomas has undertaken over
the past decade at Warwick Business School (WBS), the Association
of Business Schools (ABS), the Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business (AACSB) International, the Global Foundation
for Management Education (GFME) and on business schools and
their strategic leadership; on the other, Fernando Fragueiro’s five
years of research on ‘strategic leadership as processes in a specific
organizational context from a political perspective’ at three worldclass European institutions: IMD, INSEAD and London Business
School (LBS), as well as his own experience as dean of IAE Business
School, from 1995 to 2008.
The logic of this book, which examines business school strategic leadership processes in practice, is explained in the following
flow diagram (suggested by Alex Wilson, research fellow in strategic
management at WBS).