Prof. Duncan Angwin

Prof. Duncan Angwin
Duncan Angwin is Professor in Strategic Management at Oxford Brookes University, England and Associate (Fellow / Professor) at Warwick Business School and Said Business School, Oxford. He lectures around the world for many businesses and Universities and has held visiting professor appointments at Adelaide Graduate School of Management; EHTP, Morocco; ENPC, Paris; HEC, Paris; Georgetown, US; Said Business School, Oxford. He sits on the Academic Council of ENPC, Paris

Duncan held the Chair of the Strategy and Practice group at the Strategic Management Society conference for three years and was 2008 joint winner of the Best Paper for Practice implications in Cologne, Germany. He currently chairs the awards panel for the Strategic Management Society’s prize for best conference paper for practice implications. He is also currently Chair of the panel of judges for the Management Consultancies Association, London, annual performance awards for best consulting company and for best management consultant. He sits on the advisory board of the centre for mergers and acquisitions research, CASS Business School, London.

Duncan has published widely on Strategic Management and Mergers and Acquisitions and has published in many journals including Academy of Management Executive, Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Horizons, California Management Review, European Management Journal, Journal of World Business, Long Range Planning, Organization Studies, Strategic Change and is frequently in the media commenting on M&A deals. He has written three books: ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’, and ‘The Strategy Pathfinder’ 2nd edition, both published by Wiley, Oxford and ‘Implementing Successful Post Acquisition Management’ with Financial Times / Prentice Hall.

Duncan’s primary area of research is strategic perspectives on Mergers and Acquisitions. He recently completed a three year research programme, for the European Union, investigating the patterns and effects of M&A in the European food supply chain.
His attention now focuses upon a Strategy-as-Practice approach to M&A and how the practices and activities of key executives influence overall processes and outcomes. Related to this perspective, Duncan has recently won a substantial research grant from Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation to investigate the practices and impacts of corporate communications during mergers and acquisitions.

Before moving back to academia, Duncan held senior appointments in International Investment Banks specialising in Corporate Finance and cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions. He maintains close links with industry working with companies including Bank of Austria, Care UK, Central Bank of Libya, Centrica, China Construction Bank, Collinson Grant, Corus, CSFB, Deloittes, Ernst and Young, Experian, HSBC, IAMCO, IBM, KPMG, MCA, McKinsey, Prudential, Royal Shakespeare Company, Severstal, Taylor Wimpey, TNT, Vodaphone, YKK.
AREA EXPERTISE
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Strategy, process, integration, change
    • Cross border deals
  • Growth strategies / Diversification
  • Strategic alliances
  • Corporate turnarounds / recovery
  • Strategy Directors
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
  • Consultancy
  • Steel
  • Finance
COUNTRIES
  • UK
  • China
  • India
  • France
  • Morocco
  • Tunisia
CURRENT BASE
  • UK
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

 Books
  1. Paroutis, S., Heracleous, L., Angwin, D. N. (2012) Practicing Strategy. Sage.

  2. Angwin, D. N., Cummings, S. and Smith, C. (2011) The Strategy Pathfinder, 2nd edition, Wiley, Oxford.

  3. Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions, Wiley / Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

  4. Angwin, D. N. (2000) Post-acquisition management, Senior Executive briefing, Financial Times Management Series, December

Refereed Articles
  1. Angwin, D. N. and Cummings , S. (2011) Stratography: The Art of Conceptualizing and Communicating Strategy, Business Horizons, 54 (5). September / October

  2. Checkley, M., Hignon, D. A., Angwin, D. N. (2010) Venture Capital Syndication and Its Causal Relationship with Performance Outcomes, Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance, 19, 5-6. August.

  3. Angwin, D. N. and Paroutis, S. (2009) Connecting up Strategy:  Are Senior Strategy Directors (SSDs) a missing link? California Management Review, 51 (3):74-94. Spring.

  4. Angwin, D. N. and Meadows (2009) The Choice of Insider or Outsider Top Executives in Acquired Companies, Long Range Planning, 37: 239 – 257.

  5. Angwin D. N. and Paroutis, S, (2008) The Strategy Director: front-line soldier or reserve general?', Strategic Innovators, April Issue.

  6. Angwin, D. N. (2007) Motive Archetypes In Mergers And Acquisitions (M&A): The Implications Of A Configurational Approach To Performance, Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, JAI Press, 6: 77-106. (This is the leading journal in the M&A field)

  7. Angwin, D. N., Stern, P. and Bradley, S (2006) Strategic Practice during a hostile takeover process: the bid for Blue Circle PLC, Journal of Strategic Management Education, 3, Senate Hall Academic Publishing.

  8. Angwin, D. N. and Vaara, E. (eds) (2005) Connectivity in Merging Organizations, Special Issue, Organization Studies 26 (10): 1447 – 1635. October.

  9. Angwin, D. N., Karamat, F. J. (2005) How Does Investment Bank Reputation Influence Merger and Acquisition Deal Characteristics? Developments in Marketing Science, 28: 229-234

  10. Angwin, D. N., Stern, P. and Bradley, S. (2004) The Target CEO in a hostile takeover: Agency or Stewardship – can the condemned agent be redeemed? Long Range Planning, 37 (3): 239-257.

  11. Angwin, D. N. (2004) Speed in M&A integration: the first 100 days, European Management Journal, 22 (4): 418-430

  12. Cummings, S. and Angwin, D. N. (2004) The future shape of strategy: Lemmings and Chimeras,  Academy of Management Executive, 18 (2): 1-16

  13. Angwin, D. N. (2004) Top management in Mergers and Acquisitions, Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, JAI Press, 3: 57-82.

  14. O’Bryne, D.  and Angwin, D. N.  (2003) Changing sub-unit boundaries during a merger, Irish Journal of Management, 24 (1) 194-214

  15. Angwin, D. N. (2003) The paradox of M&As: if so many fail, why do they still happen? Eclectic Journal of the Institute of Bankers, 13, 21-26

  16. Contardo, I and Angwin, D. N. (2002) The Management Buy-Out Arena: Differential Slip in a Tripartite Alliance, Strategic Change, 11 (1): 7 – 16

  17. Angwin, D. N. (2001) Analyzing structural instability in MBOs Eclectic Journal of the Institute of Bankers, 8, 16-20

  18. Angwin, D. N. (2001) Mergers and Acquisitions across European Borders: National Perspectives on Pre-acquisition Due Diligence and the use of professional advisers, Journal of World Business, 36 (1): 32 - 57

  19. Angwin, D. N. and Contardo, I. (1999) Unleashing Cerberus - don’t let your MBOs turn on themselves, Long Range Planning, October, 32 (5): 494-504

  20. Angwin, D.N. and Ernst and Young Consultants (1998) MBOs: no guaranteed riches, Ernst and Young, February

  21. Angwin, D. N. (1998) Top manager type and post-acquisition change, les cahiers du management, ESC, Toulouse, France.

  22. Angwin, D. N. and Savill, B (1997) Strategic Perspectives on European cross-border acquisitions - a view from top European executives, European Management Journal,  15: 423 - 435

  23. Angwin, D. N. and Ernst & Young Consultants (1997) The first 90 days, Ernst and Young

  24. Angwin, D. N. (1997) Re-evaluating acquisitions, The Scotsman, August

  25. Angwin, D. N., Wensley, R. and Ernst & Young Consultants (1995)  Key Success Factors in Acquisition Management, Ernst and Young

  26. Angwin, D. N. (1996) After the fall, Management Today, April pp56-58

  27. Angwin, D. N. and Ernst and Young Consultants (1996) European Acquisitions: getting it right, Ernst and Young

Official Publications
  1. Angwin, DN, Kastrinaki, Z, and P Stoneman, (2010) ‘M&A in the European food supply chain', FOODIMA Research report to the EU.

  2. Kastrinaki, Z, P Stoneman and DN Angwin, (2008) 'A survey of theoretical and empirical approaches to analyzing merger activity', A FOODIMA research report to the EU.

  3. Kastrinaki, Z, P Stoneman and DN Angwin, (2008) 'An evaluation of merger waves along the EU food supply chain', FOODIMA Research report to the EU, 2008.

Book chapters
  1. Angwin, D. N. (2011) Typologies in M&A research, Chapter 3 in Faulkner, D., Teerikangas, S. and Joseph, R. (eds) (2011) Oxford Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

  2. Angwin, D. N. (2007) Agency theory perspective, Chapter 8 in Ambosini, V., Jenkins, M. with Collier, N. (2007) Advanced Strategic Management, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan.

  3. Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions as Horizons, chapter 1 in Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions, Blackwells, Oxford

  4. Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions as Practice, Chapter 11 in Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions, Blackwells, Oxford

  5. Angwin, D. N., Dacko, S. and Checkley, M. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions as Time, chapter 13 in Angwin, D. N. (2007) Mergers and Acquisitions, Blackwells, Oxford

  6. Angwin, D. N. (2005) Corporate strategy: mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances, chapter 10 in McGee, J. Thomas, H and Wilson, D. (2005) Strategy: Analysis and Practice, McGraw Hill.

  7. Dacko, S. and Angwin, D. N. (2005) 100 Days since the merger or acquisition: time to evaluate success?, In Search of Time, Palermo, Sicily Chapter 5.

  8. Angwin, D. N. (2005) in Strategic Management, edited by John McGee, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume X11, Blackwells Oxford

  9. Angwin, D. N., Stern, P. and Bradley, S (2005) Blue Circle, in McGee, J., Thomas, H., Wilson, D. (2005) Strategic Management, McGraw-Hill

  10. Angwin, D. N. (2003) Strategy as Exploration and Interconnection, chapter 8 in Wilson, D.C. and Cummings, S.C. (eds) Images of  Strategy, Blackwells, Oxford

Sample of newspaper publications
  1. Angwin, DN and Paroutis, S. (2009) Down, but not out! – M&A during recession, Business and Economy, Planman Media.

  2. Angwin, D. N. (2005) Strategic Management Texts, Review article, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Times, November.

  3. Angwin, D. N. (1997) Re-evaluating acquisitions, The Scotsman.