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DCU Business School

Brian Leavy

Academic and Professional Qualifications:	B.Sc., MBA, Ph.D.
Biography:	Brian Leavy is AIB Professor of Strategic Management, and is Head of the Management & Information Systems Group and Academic Director of the Centre for Executive Programmes at DCU Business School. Prior to his academic career, he spent eight years as a manufacturing engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation, now part of Hewlett Packard. Brian’s teaching and research interests centre on strategic leadership, competitive analysis and strategy innovation, and he has published over 80 articles, chapters and book reviews on these topics, nationally and internationally. He is the author/co-author of three books, Strategy and Leadership, with David Wilson (Routledge, 1994), Strategy and General Management, with James S. Walsh (Oak Tree Press, 1995) and Key Processes in Strategy (Thomson Learning, 1996), with a fourth, Strategic Leadership - Governance and Renewal, with Peter McKiernan, (Palgrave, 2009) due out soon. He is a contributing editor of Strategy & Leadership and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Strategy and Management.
Teaching Areas:	Business Strategy Strategy, Leadership and Renewal Corporate Leadership and Renewal
Research Interests:	View Full Research Profile for Brian Leavy
Selected Publications:	Leavy, B. and Moitra, D. (2006). “The practice of co-creating value with customers: An interview with C.K.Prahalad, Strategy & Leadership 34(2):4-9. Leavy, B. (2004). “Outsourcing strategies: opportunities and risks”, Strategy & Leadership 32(6): 20-25 [Reprinted in A.A. Thompson, A.J. Strickland III and J.E. Gamble (eds.), Crafting & Executing Strategy: Text and Readings, New York: McGraw-Hill (15th edition), 2007.] Leavy, B. (1998). “The concept of learning in the strategy field: review and outlook”, Management Learning 19(4): 447-466 [Reprinted in K.Starkey, S.Tempest and A. Mc Kinley (eds.), How Organisations Learn, London: Thomson (2nd Edition), 2004.] Leavy, B. (1996). “On studying leadership in the strategy field’, The Leadership Quarterly 7(4):435-454. Leavy, B. (1991). “A process study of strategic change and industry evolution”, British Journal of Management 2(4): 187-204.