Business Strategy Review articles

Recent articles from Business Strategy Review

Why is Manchester United So Successful?
December 22, 1998... Football is now a big industry worth studying in its own right: but it is also an excellent laboratory for studying success. The author argues that this is partly because, in contrast to say, American Football, there is less equalisation of resources between the clubs and English football...

Techniques for Analysing Company Performance.
December 22, 1998... Increasingly, successful managers are required to apply mathematical tools to analysis: at the least, they must be able to spot inappropriate use of these tools in reports that they read. This article discusses two of the most common of these tools, regression analysis and data envelopment...

The Evolution of the Firm's Regulatory Affairs Office.
December 22, 1998... In the UK in the last fifteen years, independent regulators have increasingly monitored privatised companies in utilities, transport and telecommunications: both to oversee the natural monopoly elements of service provision and to foster competition and innovation where feasible. Within...

Corporate Governance and Directors' Remuneration: Views from the Top.
December 22, 1998... This article summarises the views of 342 company chairmen at London-listed companies of all sizes on issues of corporate governance and directors' remuneration. In the wake of the Hampel Committee Report, the authors used a fax survey to canvass their views on a range of topics including...

Made in Europe: Small Companies.(Industry Overview)
December 22, 1998... This is the third report on the `Made in Europe' research programme. Earlier reports concentrated on the maturity of implementation of `best practice' in both the design and manufacturing processes of larger European companies. Here, the authors shift the focus to small and medium-sized...