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 Ray Loveridge 

Overview

Ray Loveridge is Professor Emeritus of Aston University and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Saïd Business School. Currently he pursues a number of projects reflecting his interests in multinationals, comparative management, knowledge management and professionalisation. Recent books resulting from his research include Information Technology in European Services (1990) and Internationalisation: Process, Context and Markets (1998).

Loveridge began his career in aircraft engineering before entering academe through appointments at the LSE and then London Business School. Previously he had gained the PPE Diploma at Ruskin College, Oxford, an Economics Tripos at Churchill College, Cambridge and an MSc at the LSE. The University of Cambridge awarded him a LittD (Doctor of Literature) in 2001 for his published contributions to scholarship in business management.

Research interests

Professionalisation and knowledge management
Comparative management, particularly South-East Asia, nation states and multinational corporations

Books:


Hooley, G, Loveridge, R & Wilson, D, Internationalisation: Process, Context and Markets, Macmillan, 1998.

Loveridge, R & Starkey, K, Continuity and Crisis in the National Health Service - The Politics of Design and Innovation in Health Care, Open University Press, 1992.

Child, J & Loveridge, R, Information Technology in European Services: Towards a Micro-Electronic Europe, Blackwell, 1990.

Loveridge, R & Pitt, M, The Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, Wiley, 1990.

Book chapters:


Loveridge, R, 'Institutional Approaches to Business Strategy', in: Faulkner, DO & Campbell, A (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Stategy, Volume I: A Strategy Overview and Competitive Strategy, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Loveridge, R, 'Technology', in: Sorge, A (Ed), Organizations, International Thompson Press, 2001.

Loveridge, R & Mueller, F, 'Flagships, Flotillas and Corvettes: Corporate Actors, National Business Systems and Sectoral Dynamics in Telecommunications', in: Quack, S, Morgan, G, & Whitley, R (Ed), National Capitalisms, Global Competition and Economic Performance, John Benjamins, 2000.

Loveridge, R, 'The Firm as Differentiator and Integrator of Networks: Layered Communities of Practice and Discourse', in: Faulkner, D & de Rond, M (Ed), Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business and Organizational Issues, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Loveridge, R, 'James Burnham', in: Cashmore, E & Rojek, C (Ed), A Dictionary of Cultural Studies, Edgar Arnold, 1999.

Loveridge, R, 'Charles Perrow', in: Warner, M (Ed), Handbook of Management Thinking, International Thompson Press, 1998.

Loveridge, R, Casson, M & Singh, S, 'Human Resource Management in the Multinational Enterprise: Styles, Modes, Institutions and Ideologies', in: Hooley, G, Loveridge, R & Wilson, D (Ed), Internationalisation: Process, Context and Markets, Macmillan, 1998.

Loveridge, R, 'John Child', in: Warner, M (Ed), Handbook of Management Thinking, International Thompson Press, 1998.

'Institutional, Sectoral and Corporate Dynamics in the Creation of Global Supply Chains', in: Whitley, R & Kristensen, P (Ed), Governance at work: the social regulation of economic relations, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Loveridge, R, 'Putting Nationalism back into National Business Systems: the Ideological and Institutional context of global competition', in: Bugra, A & Usdiken, B (Ed), State, Market and Organizational Form, de Gruyter, 1997.

Casson, M, Loveridge, R & Singh, S, 'Corporate Culture in Europe, Asia and North America', in: Boyd, G, Rugman, AM (Ed), Euro-pacific Investment And Trade, Edward Elgar, 1996.

Loveridge, R, 'Technology and Organizations', in: Warner, M & Sorge, A (Ed), International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management, Routledge, 1996.

'The Ethical Significance of Corporate Culture in Large Multinational Enterprises', in: Brady, FN (Ed), Ethical Universals in International Business, Springer Verlag, 1996.

Casson, M, Loveridge, R, Singh, S, 'The Ties that Bond?', in: Islam, I, Shepherd, WF (Ed), Current Issues in International Business, Edward Elgar, 1996.

Loveridge, R, 'Language, Cognition and Information Technology', in: Cesaria, R & Shockley-Zalabek, P(Ed) Organization Means Communications, SIPI, 1995.

Loveridge, R, 'New Structural Analysis: Mok's contribution to an ongoing debate', in: Henderickx, E & Van Hoof, J (Ed), Baas over de eigen (loop) baan, Houten, 1995.

 
Journal articles:


Loveridge, R, 'The incorporation of the multinational: socio-technical interfaces between the MNE and its host nation', Asian Business and Management, Vol 2, 2002.

Loveridge, R & Mueller, F, 'Globalization in the Telecommunications Sector - the Dynamics of Firms, Governments and Technologies', Competition and Change, Vol 4:3, 1999, pp 1-26.

Loveridge, R, 'Social science as social reconstruction: A celebration of discontinuity or a test of the resilience of belief? ', Human Relations, Vol 50:8, 1997, pp 879-884.

Loveridge, R, 'The Second Industrial Divide - the Role of the Large Firm in Baden Wurttemberg Model', Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol 4, 1996.

Contact Details

Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
UK

Ray.Loveridge@sbs.ox.ac.uk 

+44 (0)1865 288930 

Created at 21/09/2009 12:39  by Arta Gerguri 
Last modified at 08/11/2010 17:59  by Hazel Fry