Academic publications

Selected academic journal articles, books, and book chapters

Trevor, J.; Asakawa, K. (2024)

Part B: Designing organizational ecosystems and overcoming barriers to implementation

European Business Review

Trevor, J.; Asakawa, K. (2024)

Aligning organizational ecosystems to be fit for purpose

European Business Review

Trevor, J.; Varcoe, B. (2023)

How Aligned Is Your Organization?

Chapter in HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy

Kotosaka, K.; Trevor, J. (2023)

Corporate values alignment: ideation, codification, and co-creation

DIAMOND Harvard Business Review

Trevor, J.; Holweg, M. (2022)

Managing the new tensions of hybrid work

MIT Sloan Management Review

Trevor, J. (2022)

Re:Align A Leadership Blueprint for Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance

Bloomsbury Publishing

Trevor, J. (2022)

Why Purpose Matters Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research

Trevor, J. (2020)

Is Anyone Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment In Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Chang, C.; Colfer, B.; Geelan, T.; et al (2019)

William Arthur (Willy) Brown: 22 April 1945–1 August 2019

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Trevor, J. (2019)

Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation

Bloomsbury Publishing

Trevor, J.; Williamson, P. (2019)

How to Design the Ambidextrous Organization

European Business Review

Wright, C.; Wood, A.; Trevor, J.; et al (2019)

Towards a new web of rules: an international review of institutional experimentation to strengthen employment protections

Employee Relations

Trevor, J. (2018)

Prospects for strategic pay

The Routledge Companion to Reward Management (Chapter)

Trevor, J. (2018)

The risky business of rewarding for performance 1

The Routledge Companion to Reward Management (Chapter)

Trevor, J. (2018)

Is Anyone In Your Company Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment?

Harvard Business Review

Trevor, J. (2017)

Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver

European Business Review

Trevor, J.; Kotosaka, M. (2017)

Strategic human resource management: An agenda for Japanese companies in the 21st century

Harvard Business Review

Trevor, J.; Varcoe, B. (2017)

How aligned is your organization?

Harvard Business Review

Varcoe, B.; Trevor, J. (2017)

Leading the Aligned Enterprise

Developing Leaders

Trevor, J. (2016)

Future work: changes, choices & consequences

European Business Review

Stahl, G.; Bjorkman, I.; Farndale, E.; et al (2016)

Six principles of effective global talent management

IEEE Engineering Management Review

Trevor, J.; Varcoe, B. (2016)

A simple way to test your company's strategic alignment

Harvard Business Review

Stiles, P.; Trevor, J.; Farndale, E. (2015)

Changing routine: reframing performance management within a multinational

Journal of Management Studies

Trevor, J.; Brown, W. (2014)

The limits on pay as a strategic tool: obstacles to alignment in non-union environments

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Brown, W.; Trevor, J. (2014)

Payment Systems and the Fall and Rise of Individualism

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations

Trevor, J. (2013)

Leading the capability revolution

European Business Review

Trevor, J. (2013)

From new pay to the new, new pay?

WorldatWork Journal

Trevor, J.; Mackinlay, D. (2012)

Have we reached a tipping point in reward?

Benefits and Compensation International

Trevor, J.; Kilduff, M. (2012)

Leadership fit for the information age

Strategic HR Review

Trevor, J.; Hill, R. (2012)

Developing Transformational Leadership Capability

Developing Leaders

Trevor, J. (2012)

A rewarding crisis for HR

People Management

Trevor, J.; Hill, R. (2012)

Developing transformation leadership capabilities

Developing Leaders

Stahl, G.; Bjorkman, I.; Farndale, E.; et al (2012)

Six principles of effective global talent management

MIT Sloan Management Review

Trevor, J. (2011)

What is the best approach to reward in a multinational? 

Strategic HR Review

Trevor, J. (2011)

Is your pay system working against you? Strategic pay systems can do more harm than good

Employee Benefits

Trevor, J.; Stiles, P. (2010)

High Stakes Broker

People Management

Trevor, J. (2010)

Can Pay Be Strategic? A Critical Exploration Of Strategic Pay In Practice

Palgrave Macmillan

Farndale, E.; Paauwe, J.; Morris, S.; et al (2010)

Context-bound configurations of corporate HR functions in multinational corporations around the globe

Human Resource Management

Morris, S.; Wright, P.; Trevor, J.; et al (2009)

Global challenges to replicating HR: the role of people, processes, and systems

Human Resource Management

Stiles, P.; Trevor, J. (2006)

The Human Resource Department: Roles, Coordination And Influence

Chapter in Handbook of research in international human resource management

Trevor, J.; Williamson, P.

How To Design The Ambidextrous Organization

European Business Review

Acknowledgement of Collaborators

Jonathan wishes to offer special thanks to his former doctoral supervisor, and long-term mentor, Dr Philip Stiles, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Professor Scott Snell, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, also deserves gratitude for the many valuable discussions. Jonathan is grateful to Dr Barry Varcoe for the special contribution he made to the development and grounding of the Strategic Alignment concept upon which some of the ideas in Align: A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation published by Bloomsbury are based. Others collaborators who have generously given of their time include Professor Kazuhiro Asakawa, Keio University, Keio Business School; Professor Jusuke Ikegami, and the late and very much missed, Professor Emeritus Masataka Ota, both of Waseda University, Waseda Business School; Professor Peter Williamson, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School and Professor Sandy Pepper, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.