This article identifies whether top managers in banks’ parent companies are highly involved in the design of strategy and examines how management styles influence (or reflect influences) on diversification decisions within bank markets. Alongside this assessment, the research ranks the main...

This paper questions the widely held view that B2C eCommerce markets are characterised by a high intensity of competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical studies which test them. We argue that the goods sold in B2C...

This research considers the way in chinc banks have altered their strategies as regulatory change (ie deregulation) and information technology (IT) innovations created more opportunities for service delivery and extended the range of potential competitors and forms of competition. These external...

This research considers the way in chinc banks have altered their strategies as regulatory change (ie deregulation) and information technology (IT) innovations created more opportunities for service delivery and extended the range of potential competitors and forms of competition. These external...

La interacción virtuosa entre cooperación y competencia ha sido destacada en la literatura reciente sobre desarrollo localizado. Esencialmente, la colaboración permite superar obstáculos (tecnológicos, logísticos, de escala, etc.) que individualmente las firmas no son capaces de vencer...

This article summarises a wider report on the current state of best practice benchmarking in UK and US commercial banking.