Professor Steve McGuire

Professor of Management Director, Centre for International Business and Public Policy (CIBaPP)
BA (Calgary), MA (Toronto), D.Phil (Oxford) Photograph of Professor Steve McGuire.

Contact

Email: sbm@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room F8, Cledwyn Building
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 62 2200

Research

  • Strategic Management: corporate political activity, non-market strategy and political risk.
  • International Political Economy: European and global economic governance (EU regulatory processes, World Trade Organisation, private/public regulation of the international economy)
  • Technology and the firm (competence creation and destruction through technological change)

Biography

Steve McGuire’s research interests are in the areas of international political economy, international business and corporate political activity.  He has a particular interest in the interaction of firms and governments in international trade, and has published a number of papers on the World Trade Organisation.  He has also written extensively on technology policy in Europe and the United States .  

He was previously a senior lecturer in international business at the University of Bath , and in 2009 he was a visiting professor at the College of Europe.  He has also taught on degree and executive development programmes at the Audencia Nantes Management School, the University of Bath and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School .

His recent research has been funded by the British Academy , the Daiwa – Anglo Japanese Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation.  He serves on the editorial boards of two journals, Business and Politics and European Journal of International Management.

Staff Publications

Books

  • The European Union and the United States: Competition and Convergence in the Global Arena , (co-authored with Michael Smith), Palgrave Press, 2008, 336 pages.
  • Trade Politics: International, Domestic and Regional Perspectives, 2nd Ed. (co-edited with Brian Hocking), London: Routledge, 2004, 326 pages.

Refereed journal articles

  • Steven McGuire and Johan Lindeque (2010), ‘Diminishing Returns to Trade Policy in the European Union’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 48(5): 1327-1347.
  • Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire (2010), ‘Building Non-Market Capabilities: A Resource-based View of Prosecuting a Trade Remedy Case', Journal of World Trade, 44(4): 303-343.
  • Steven McGuire, Felicia Fai and Toshiya Ozaki (2010), ‘Path Dependence as a Political Construct, the Disruptive Influence of Technology and Japanese Aerospace’, International Journal of Technology Management, 50 (3/4): 367-379.
  • Thomas Lawton, Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire (2009), ‘Multilateralism and the MNE’, Business and Politics, August, http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol11/iss2/art3
  • Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire (2007), ‘The United States and the WTO: Hegemony Constrained or Confirmed?’, Management International Review, 47(5): 725-744.
  • Steven McGuire (2007), ‘The United States, Japan and the Aerospace Industry: from Capture to Competitor?’, The Pacific Review, 20(3): 329-350.
  • Steven McGuire (2006), ‘No More Euro-Champions? The Interaction of EU Industrial and Trade Policies’, Journal of European Public Policy, 13(6): 887-905.
  • Mark Lund and Steven McGuire (2005), ‘Institutions and Development: Electronic Commerce and Economic Growth’, Organization Studies, 26(12): 1743-1763.
  • Thomas Lawton and Steven McGuire (2005), ‘Adjusting to Liberalization: Tracing the Impact of the WTO on the European Textiles and Chemicals Industries’, Business and Politics, 7(3), August, www.bepress, article 4.
  • Andrea Goldstein and Steven McGuire (2004), ‘The Political Economy of Strategic Trade Policy and the Brazil-Canada Export Subsidies Saga’, World Economy, 27(4): 541-567.
  • Eleanor Morgan and Steven McGuire (2004), ‘Trans-Atlantic Divergence? GE-Honeywell and the EU’s Competition Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 11(1): 39-56.
  • Thomas Lawton and Steven McGuire (2003), ‘Governing the Electronic Market Space: A Critical Evaluation of the Global Consensus on E-Commerce Self-Regulation’, Management International Review, 43(1): 51-71.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Steven McGuire, Johan Lindeque and Gabriele Suder, ‘Learning and Lobbying: The Acquisition of Corporate Political Capabilities by Emerging Market Firms’, presented at the Strategic Management Society meeting, Rome, 13 September 2010.
  • Steven McGuire, ‘Trade, Technology and the Multipolar Economy’, presented at the 3rd annual International Business Symposium, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, 22 May 2010.
  • Steven McGuire and Johan Lindeque, ‘The Declining Trade Power of the European Union: Firms and Economic Governance’, presented at the Strategic Management Society meeting, Washington DC, 11-14 October 2009.
  • Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire, ‘A Real Options Approach to Trade Remedies’, presented at the Strategic Management Society meeting, Washington DC, 11-14 October 2009.
  • Toshiya Ozaki, Felicia Fai and Steven McGuire, ‘Continuity or Discontinuity? Japan’s Industrial Policy in the Civil Aviation Sector’, presented at the Academy of International Business meeting, San Diego, CA, 29 June – 3 July 2009.
  • Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire, ‘A Real-Options Approach to Prosecuting a Trade Remedy Case’, 2nd Annual International Business Conference, Henley Business School, University of Reading, 30-31 March 2009.
  • Steven McGuire and Johan Lindeque, ‘Diminishing Returns to Trade Power in the European Union’, presented at the International Studies Association meeting, New York, 15-18 February 2009.
  • Johan Lindeque and Steven McGuire, ‘Prosecuting a Trade Remedy Case in the United States of America’, presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business, Milan, Italy, 30 June – 3 July 2008.
  • Felicia Fai, Steven McGuire and Toshiya Ozaki, ‘Technology policy in Japan: the case of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet’, presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies, Milan, Italy, 28-20 June 2008.
  • Felicia Fai, Steven McGuire and Toshiya Ozaki, ‘The Political Economy of Technological and Geopolitical Rivalry: Japan’s Technology Policy for Aerospace’, presented at the Journal of International Business Studies/Academy of International Business Frontiers conference, Miami, 28 November – 1 December 2007.