This teaching case study looks at milestones in the UK credit card market. It then focuses on how a long-standing market leader maintains a position of advantage and develops its business in a fast-moving industry undergoing significant change. There are many different strategic options open to...

This teaching case looks at the development of the ethical pharmaceutical industry. The various forces affecting the discovery, development, production, distribution and marketing of prescription drugs are discussed in terms of their origins and recent developments. Readers are then invited to...

This teaching case study summarises events leading to the creation of a global pharmaceutical giant and the early years of its performance while inviting readers to consider the process of growth through mergers and acquisitions as a general strategy. The case also looks at the expectations,...

Ensayo sobre la estrategia bancaria frente a la crisis politica y financiera en Ecuador durante 1999.

This is an empirical review of IT outsourcing as an emerging tool for corporate strategy after deregulation and other phenomena changed the suitability of the global/universal bank model. Case studies of UK commercial banks are used to focus on cost management of paper and electronic processing...

Book Review to "Perspectives on Strategy from the BCG" by C.W. Stern & G. Stalk Jr. (Wiley, 1998).

Ensayo sobre cajeros automaticos. Parte 2. Compartir las redes de cajeros facilita el acceso de los usuarios a sus saldos monetarios y puede llegar a disminuir el costo financiero del banco. Sin embargo, mayor compatibilidad puede resultar en que la base de clientes sea presa facil de bancos...

This article presents interview results which are part of a wider research programme into the control bank managers have of their banks' return generating resources (captured as core capabilities). In particular, changes in growth opportunities within bank markets emerging from regulatory change...

This article looks at the effects of office mechanisation in greater detail by describing data processing innovations in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as...