Corporate Strategy in the Age of Responsibility
Biography
Peter McManners works as a consultant and author and is a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School. Peter's career as a military engineer, surveyor and mapping expert took him to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was COO of the Oxford Trust, where his focus was on spinning technology out of academia. He has taught all over Northern Europe under the auspices of Henley Business School, Reading University. He writes a monthly column in Sustainable Business magazine and is the author of the acclaimed book Fly and Be Damned. Peter is a Life Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Member of the Institute of Directors and of the Green Economics Institute. He has been a speaker at the Institute's Oxford Conferences for several years.
’A refreshing, thought-provoking and long-awaited new perspective. McManners engages directly with the looming impact of the Sustainable Revolution, and challenges business leaders to take off the blinkers of orthodox corporate strategy. Exploring the role of business and the dramatically changing world context, McManners offers refreshing and practical insights into how the strategy development process needs to be re-modelled.’ Malcolm Kirkup, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK ’This book is a valuable addition to the growing field of strategic management which seeks to integrate a concern with the bottom-line with a reconceptualised model of the role of the corporation in 21st-century capitalism. It is a remarkable contribution, given its sensitivity to looming problems of resource scarcity and the gathering momentum behind the sustainable revolution. It is a must-read for practitioners and theorists alike.’ Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford, UK and Monash University, Australia ’This book is a must-read for practitioners and theorists alike. It encourages practitioners to include novel strategic options in the management of their organisation. It contributes to theoretical insights on the (business) road to sustainable development. It offers a major help for consultants, unions, and consumers, and it is a most interesting supporting text for business school teaching.’ International Journal for Environment and Pollution, vol. 57, no. 1/2, 2015
