Business Strategy Review articles from June 1997

Business Strategy Review archives from June 1997

Britain's political watershed.
June 22, 1997... This first article in our special feature is based on a speech analysing the issues facing the new Labour Government on five fronts: macroeconomics, investment, the privatised monopolies and regulation, corporate governance and stakeholders,...

Six stakeholding propositions.
June 22, 1997... Will Hutton is one of the leading proponents of the stakeholding concept. He originally set out his ideas in an earlier book, "The State We're In". In this article, he summarises the arguments contained in his latest book, "The State to Come"....

A community fund.
June 22, 1997... This article presents a modest version of James Meade's vision of a community fund, to be managed by commercial fund managers, with the aim of filling the hole in the public finances which can arise because the need for critical healthcare and...

Democracy and economy: what role for stakeholders?
June 22, 1997... This article introduces a note of caution to the stakeholding debate. Current discussions on stakeholders neglect their diversity and confuse alternative modes of stakeholder protection at the enterprise level; namely: direct shareholding,...

Employees as stakeholders.
June 22, 1997... In the context of employees, the discussion centres not so much on whether employees are stakeholders as on how their stakes should be embodied. In this article, the author argues that from the point of view of the performance of the firm, the...

The environment as stakeholder.
June 22, 1997... Because they have no voice, the environment and future generations are all too often ignored in decision-making, both at the macroeconomic level and in the firm. This article makes the case for explicit recognition of these interests as...

The family as stakeholder.
June 22, 1997... This article argues that if stakeholding has any validity, then the family should be numbered among the stakeholders. It then goes on to discuss how the family's stake in the firm could be distinguished from its stake in society and suggests...

Inequality and competitiveness.
June 22, 1997... This article suggests a theoretical exploration of possible relationships between several issues normally discussed separately: the long-standing capital/ labour debate, the distinctions between popular capitalism (ie universal or very...

What makes an independent regulator independent?
June 22, 1997... As private capital is increasingly invested in utilities across the globe, the issue of regulation and its interface with different types of government, culture and society has become evermore complex. This article focuses on the design of...

Explaining success - hard work not illusion. (response to Robin Wensley, Business Strategy Review, spring, 1997)
June 22, 1997... Keith Roberts takes issue with Robin Wensley on whether "success" can be explained. In "Explaining Success: the Rule of 10% and the Example of Market Share" (Business Strategy Review Spring 1997), Robin Wensley states that: * it is...