摘要:

In the wake of Britain's entry into the ERM, this article looks at the consequences for British exporters' competitiveness. Outlining the changing macroeconomic pressures which will ensue and the policies of exporters in the past, we suggest the practical steps companies will need to take to gain advantage from the new environment as well as to mitigate the impact of a less forgiving exchange rate regime.

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00013.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The takeover mechanism may have some effect on disciplining managers ‐ but it also allows them to spend shareholders money on self promotion. The authors of this paper argue that if we had a better system of corporate governance with a revitalised role for independent directors fewer takeovers would occur, and calls for reform of the acquisition market would diminis

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00014.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Competition is a selection process in which the winners survive and expand, and the losers contract and disappear. This paper examines the selection process applied to the leading five firms in a large sample of UK manufacturing industries over the period 1979 to 1986. Selection pressures are seen to vary substantially the rank of the firm, and much but not all of the selection pressures that these firms faced originated in the capital market.

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00015.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

You cannot afford to get positioning wrong, but there are limited rewards for getting it right. That is the rather pessimistic conclusion you can draw from this account of recent entry into the British newspaper industry. The authors use the experience of that industry to illustrate some principles of good and bad positioning.

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00016.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Are joint ventures a way of avoiding the problems of merger or acquisition? The authors of this paper argue that the similarities between the two are more striking than the differences. They demonstrate the point by surveying the published literature on both.

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00017.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Reviewing two recently released books: Porter's “Competitive Advantage of Nations” and Chandler's “Scale and Scope”, this article assesses the benefits of critical mass arising both within a company and through association with a leading cluster of firms in the same i

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1990.tb00018.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY