In the last 30 years fashion has changed from an elite accessory of the super‐rich to a mass‐market product. Since the mid‐nineties the department stores that traditionally dominated this broader market have started to lose ground to specialist clothing chains offering the latest designs...

Before the privatization of British Airways in early 1987, people in the UK said that BA stood for “bloody awful”. Even allowing for the fact that British people go in for that kind of thing – one of the companies out of which BA was created in 1973, BOAC, used to be referred to as...

Anyone seeking an object lesson in the uncertainties of the business world needs to look no further than the telecommunications industry. Wireless communications increased massively during the late 1990s, a time when technology advanced at a bewildering rate. The value of companies using this...

Common sense tells us that management styles affect people like the weather. The chilly climate and sudden storms of autocratic leadership can turn work into a permanent winter of discontent. In contrast, the consistent and predictable temperatures of an organization founded on empowerment and...

Purpose – To study the reasons why iconic companies suffer failure. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the findings in context. Findings – Betsy Morris chronicles the downward slide of...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – To discover Nigel Nicholson's views of the implications of evolutionary psychology for business. Design/methodology/approach – Nigel Nicholson speaks to editor Sarah Powell about the implications of evolutionary psychology for business. Nigel Nicholson has been a professor at the...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – To discuss organizations’ approaches to company values and ethics, an important aspect of which should be finding out from employees what their perceptions are – asking them “What do we stand for?” Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...