The Marketing Faculty at London Business School undertakes academically rigorous teaching and research in a wide range of interrelated topics, including: - advertising - brands and branding - competitive strategy - consumer behaviour - customer focus - distribution - entrepreneurship -...

Business schools face significant challenges in terms of faculty recruitment, retention and development, with datasuggesting that there are worrying shortfalls in terms of numbers of PhD students graduating and taking up facultypositions in UK business schools (Francis, 2005). Add to this...

As trust undeniably is a crucial factor of economic development, it seems to be veryimportant to find out where there exists a reasonable stock of trust and where not,as well as how the emergence of trust could be fostered, how its existence can bemaintained and how threats to trustful relations...

Following the collapse of the socialist systems the countries of Middle- and Eastern Europefollowed their way to democracy and a market economy with different speed and sequencing.The related political-economy issues gave rise to an ongoing debate on the question as towhether the introduction of...