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...

Bank corporate strategy can be considered as managers recognising available types of growth opportunities and then pursuing them. This approach considers that growth opportunities are external to banks and is the one adopted by most economic analysis. Based on this view the article reviews the...

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...

The case study is concerned with 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 Barclaycard, but which will be most suitable? Will all the...

Ensayo sobre la estrategia bancaria y el benchmarking en servicios financieros.

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...

Book Review to "Escalation in Decision-Making: The Tragedy of Taurus", by H. Drummond (Oxford University Press, 1996).

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

Ensayo sobre las posibilidades de crecimiento de la banca venezolana en 1999 asi como el potencial para invertir en tecnologia.

Ensayo sobre cajeros automaticos. La experiencia en la adopcion de ATMs nos sugiere que normalmente la modernizacion tecnologica se asocia con reduccion de costos pero un aspecto frecuentemente olvidado es el caracter estrategico de estas inversiones.