In this study, we focus on firms that are listed on foreign exchanges from six countries: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and U.K. to provide some insights into the following questions: (1) what are the major perceived costs and benefits of foreign listing? (2) What are the...

The picture which emerges is not one of institutions at separate ends of a continuum in a process of convergence towards the centre. Rather we see both institutions moving in the same direction, towards tighter control, towards a greater division of labour, away from autonomy and towards...

Core Competencies are a very vague reference point for strategic decisions. This study tries to find a way from the core competencies to company structures and thus a way for the implementation of core competencies.

This paper adopts a similar position to French (1987:401) who emphasises the "any differences between engeneers and scientits and the rest of workeforce are differences only in degree and only in certain dimensions". Indeed, it suggests further that the degrees of difference may becomming...