Prof. Loizos Heracleous

Prof. Loizos Heracleous
Loizos Heracleous is a senior associate of Strategic Concepts International, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School, and Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College and the Said Business School at Oxford University. His previous roles include Reader in Strategy at the Said Business School and Official Fellow, member of the Executive Committee and member of the Governing Body of Templeton College at Oxford. He was also Associate Professor of Business Policy at the National University of Singapore, where he spent 7 years. Loizos is a member of the US Academy of Management, European Group for Organization Studies, Cambridge Alumni in Management and Singapore Institute of Directors. He has been listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World since 2003.

Loizos earned his Ph.D. at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Strategy and Organization: Realizing Strategic Management, (2003, Cambridge University Press); Business Strategy in Asia: A Casebook (2009, Cengage; with Kulwant Singh and Nitin Pangarkar); Discourse, Interpretation, Organization (2006, Cambridge University Press), Flying high in a competitive industry (2009, McGraw-Hill, with Jochen Wirtz and Nitin Pangarkar), and Practicing Strategy (2016, Sage, with Sotirios Paroutis and Duncan Angwin).

Loizos serves on the editorial boards of several leading management journals, including the board of the top empirical journal in the world, the Academy of Management Journal. He served as Senior Editor of Organization Studies (2003-2006), and currently sits on its editorial board; and also sits on the editorial boards of Human Relations, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. His research has been published in over 50 research papers in leading international journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, MIS Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. The US Academy of Management has honored his research through three Best Paper Awards; in 1999 (on globalization), 2004 (on organization development), and 2006 (on corporate governance).  His research on how biometric technologies can afford sustainable competitive advantage (in Managing Service Quarterly, 2006) has won the Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award for that year. In addition his work won 2 further awards from Emerald for research with the best practical implications. 

In addition to Cyprus where he was born, Loizos has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has developed and delivered several executive development programs in areas such as strategic thinking and planning, leading transformational change, fostering strategic innovation, developing core competencies and strategic alignment, dealing with dilemmas of corporate governance, developing corporate social responsibility, diagnosing and managing organizational culture, and organizing for the future. He served as Director of the Strategic Management Executive Program at the National University of Singapore from 2001 to 2003 and has trained company directors in Singapore on corporate governance on behalf of the Singapore Institute of Directors from 1999-2004. He delivers the strategy component of the Advanced Management Program at Oxford University, and served as Director of the Oxford-HKU Senior Executive Program in Corporate Leadership offered in Hong Kong from 2006 to 2009. Loizos has trained or advised senior executives from several organizations in both the private and public sectors. These include Total, Telenor, IBM, O2, Cargill, Exel, Carrefour, Novo Nordisk, Janssen-Cilag, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, KPMG, BAE Systems, Singapore Academy of Law and Singapore Police Force. More information about Loizos' research and publications can be found here: www.heracleous.org
AREA EXPERTISE
  • Strategic Change Processes
  • Strategic Thinking and Planning
  • Organization Change and Development
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
  • Airlines
  • Professional Services
  • Banking
COUNTRIES
  • Cyprus
  • Hong Kong
  • Ireland
  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom
CURRENT BASE
  • London
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

 Books
  1. Heracleous, L. 2003. Strategy and Organisation: Realizing Strategic Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  2. Pangarkar, N., Singh, K. and Heracleous, L. 2010. Business Strategy in Asia: A Casebook (3rd ed). Thomson Learning (accompanied by volume of instructional notes for all cases).

  3. Heracleous, L., Wirtz, J., and Pangarkar, N. 2009. Flying High in a Competitive Industry: Cost Effective Service Excellence at Singapore Airlines. McGraw-Hill.

  4. Heracleous, L. 2006. Discourse, Interpretation, Organization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Articles
  1. Heracleous, L. 2007. Are you aligned? Why mis-alignments persist and what can be done about it. Forthcoming, World Business.

  2. Jacobs, C. and Heracleous, L. 2007. Strategizing through playful design. Forthcoming, Journal of Business Strategy.

  3. Lan, L. and Heracleous, L. 2007. Negotiating the minefields of corporate vote-buying. Forthcoming, Corporate Governance: An International Review. 

  4. Heracleous, L. 2006. A tale of three discourses: The dominant, the strategic and the marginalized. Journal of Management Studies, 43 (5): 1059-1087.

  5. Jacobs, C. and Heracleous, L. 2006. Constructing shared understanding - the role of embodied metaphors in organization development. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 24 (2): 207-226.

  6. Heracleous, L. and Wirtz, J. 2006. Biometrics: The next frontier in service excellence, productivity and security in the service sector. Managing Service Quality, 16 (1): 12-22.

  7. Heracleous, L. and Jacobs, C. 2005. The serious business of play. MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall: 19-20.

  8. Heracleous, L., Wirtz, J. and Johnston, B. 2005. Kung Fu service development at Singapore Airlines. Business Strategy Review, Winter: 26-31.

  9. Jacobs, C. and Heracleous, L. 2005. Answers for questions to come: Reflective dialogue as an enabler of strategic innovation. Journal of Organization Change Management, 18 (4): 338-352.

  10. Lan, L. L. & Heracleous, L. 2005. Shareholder votes for sale. Harvard Business Review, June, "Forethought" section: 20-24.

  11. Heracleous, L. & Singh, K. 2005. Singapore Telecom: Venturing to the region. Asian Case Research Journal, 9 (1): 1-24.

  12. Wirtz, J. & Heracleous, L. 2005. Biometrics meets services. Harvard Business Review (HBR List of breakthrough ideas) February: 48.

  13. Marshak, R. J. and Heracleous, L. 2005. A discursive approach to organization development. Action Research, 3 (1): 69-88.

  14. Heracleous, L. and  Marshak, R. 2004. Conceptualizing organizational discourse as situated symbolic action. Human Relations, 57 (10): 1285-1312.

  15. Heracleous, L. 2004. Boundaries in the study of organization. Human Relations, 57 (1): 95-103.

  16. Heracleous, L., Wirtz, J. and Johnston, R. 2004. Cost effective service excellence: Lessons from Singapore Airlines. Business Strategy Review, 15 (1): 33-38.

  17. Heracleous, L. 2003. A comment on the role of metaphor in knowledge generation. Academy of Management Review, 28 (2): 190-191.

  18. Dwyer, G., Heracleous, L. and Doyle, C. 2003. Grounding strategic change practice in theory: The case of Avaya Ireland, 1992-2000. Strategic Change, 12 (3): 123-135.

  19. Heracleous, L. and Lan, L. L. 2002. Who wants to be a competent director? An evaluation tool of directors' knowledge of governance principles and legal duties. Corporate Governance, 2 (4): 17-23.

  20. Heracleous, L. 2002. The contribution of discourse in understanding and managing organizational change. Strategic Change, 11: 253-261. 

  21. Heracleous, L. 2001. When local beat global: The Chinese beer industry.  Business Strategy Review, 12 (3): 37-45.

  22. Heracleous, L. 2001. An ethnographic study of culture in the context of organizational change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 37 (4): 426-446.

  23. Jacobs, C. and Heracleous, L. 2001. Seeing without being seen: Towards an Archaeology of Controlling Science. International Studies of Management and Organization, 31 (3): 113-135.

  24. Heracleous, L. and Barrett, M. 2001. Organizational change as discourse: Communicative actions and deep structures in the context of IT Implementation. Academy of Management Journal, 44 (4): 755-778.

  25. Tan, T. K. and Heracleous, L. 2001. Teaching old dogs new tricks: Implementing organizational learning at an Asian national police force. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 37 (3): 361-380.

  26. Heracleous, L. and Murray, J. 2001. Network types, interlocking directors and strategy: Toward a theoretical framework. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 18 (2): 137-160.

  27. Heracleous, L. 2001. State ownership, privatization and performance: An exploratory study from a strategic management perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 18 (1): 69-81.

  28. Heracleous, L. and Murray, J. 2001. The urge to merge in the Pharmaceutical industry. European Management Journal, 19 (3): 430-437.

  29. Heracleous, L. 2001. What is the impact of corporate governance on organizational performance? Corporate Governance: An International Review, 9 (3): 165-173.

  30. Heracleous, L. 2000. The role of strategy implementation in organization development. Organization Development Journal, 18 (3): 75-86.

  31. Heracleous, L. and Hendry, J. 2000. Discourse and the study of organization: Towards a structurational perspective. Human Relations, 53 (10): 1251-1286.

  32. Heracleous, L. and Singh, K. 2000. Singapore Telecom: Strategic challenges in a turbulent environment. Asian Case Research Journal, 4 (1): 49-77.

  33. Heracleous, L. 1999. Privatization: Global trends and implications of the Singapore experience. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 12 (5): 432-444.

  34. Heracleous, L. 1999. Does Singapore need a code of best practices in corporate governance? Singapore Management Review, 21 (2): 53-67.

  35. Heracleous, L. 1999. Boards of directors as leaders of the organization. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 7 (3): 256-265.

  36. Heracleous, L. and DeVoge, S. 1998. Bridging the gap of relevance: Strategic management and organizational development. Long Range Planning, 31(5): 732-744.

  37. Heracleous, L. 1998. Strategic thinking or strategic planning? Long Range Planning, 31 (3): 481-487.

  38. Heracleous, L. and Langham, B. 1996. Strategic change and organizational culture at Hay Management Consultants. Long Range Planning, 29 (4): 485-494.

  39. Heracleous, L. 1995. Spinning a brand new cultural web. People Management, November: 24-27.

  40. Heracleous, L. 1994. Rational decision making: Myth or reality? Management Development Review, 7 (4): 16-23

Commentaries and book reviews
  1. Heracleous, L. 2004. Strategy and Organization: A response. Organization Studies, 25 (7): 1261-1267.

  2. Heracleous, L. 2001. Expert commentary on case study "The urge to merge in the Pharmaceutical industry". European Management Journal, 19 (3): 439.

  3. Heracleous, L. 2001. Review of Cohen, S. and Boyd, G., Eds., "Corporate governance and globalization", 2000, Edward Elgar. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 18: 265-267.

Book chapters and encyclopedia contributions
  1. Heracleous, L. and Jacobs, C. 2007. Playing with serious intent: Creative strategy and leadership development. In Gallos, J. (Ed.) Business Leadership: A Reader. Jossey-Bass, forthcoming.

  2. Heracleous, L. 2006. Interpretive Theory. In International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Vol. 1, Clegg, S. (Ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage, forthcoming. (2,000 word entry)

  3. Heracleous, L. 2006. Hermeneutics. In International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Vol. 1, Clegg, S. (Ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage, forthcoming. (2,000 word entry)

  4. Marshak, R. J. and Heracleous, L. 2006. Organization Development. In International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Vol. 1, Clegg, S. (Ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage, forthcoming. (3,000 word entry)

  5. Heracleous, L. and Fellenz, M. 2005. On the applicability of "alien" concepts to organizational analysis: Some criteria for inter-domain conceptual transfer. In Linstead, S. and Linstead, A. (Eds.) Thinking Organization. London and New York: Routledge: 97-111.

  6. Heracleous, L. 2004. Interpretivist approaches to organizational discourse. In Grant, D., Phillips, N., Hardy, C., Putnam, L. and Oswick, C. Handbook of Organizational Discourse. Beverly Hills: Sage: 175-192.

  7. Heracleous, L. 2000. Singapore. In Privatization Experience of Asian Countries. Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo: 157-170.

Commissioned reports
  1. Heracleous, L. 2004. The strategic role of the board of directors. Corporate Governance Executive, 2 (1), Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre, National University of Singapore.

  2. Heracleous, L. 2002. Entrepreneurship initiatives at twenty leading universities. Report delivered to NUS Enterprise, National University of Singapore, July.

  3. Heracleous, L. 1998. Leadership: What do we know? Research report delivered to the Hay Group, Singapore, May.

  4. Heracleous, L. 1996. Developing the integrated consulting model: A report on the research evidence. Research report delivered to the Hay Group, UK, October.