Paul Verdin and Peter Williamson construct links between 'inward-looking' strategies by companies -- which are governed by their existing assets, capabilities and core competencies -- and 'outward-looking' strategies which emphasise a more traditional market-competitor analysis. Two aphorisms...

Mass customization -- making products tailor-made for each individual buyer, in which even the base components are varied -- sounds impossible. Yet it is a reality in Japan and represents a new Japanese competitive advantage. Roy Westbrook and Peter Williamson, reflecting on many visits to...

This article, by Alice de Koning, Paul Verdin and Peter Williamson contributes to the debate on corporate European integration. The focus of their research is on how the process of transition from fragmented, nationally-dependent organizations towards more integrated, European regional networks...

Beginning in 2005 over 12,000 industrial facilities throughout the European Union were granted allowances to emit carbon dioxide, the most common of greenhouse gases. A trade-able asset, these allocations will be but the first in what is likely to be an ever stricter limitation on greenhouse gas...

In recent times, more intense competition has forced companies to concentrate their resources on a few, core businesses, and either to shut down or try to sell off their non-core businesses. The latter alternative has proved quite difficult, especially in the European environment. Result? - many...

The authors draw on their study over the past three years of companies that introduced numerous successful new strategies -- and compare them to less innovative peers. They discovered, in particular, successful innovators used five distinct management styles, often at odds with each other, but...

Although we have long crossed the '1992' political threshold it is the economic forces that will determine the true extent of European integration. This article reports on the results of a survey on corporate restructuring activity, undertaken by some of Europe's leading companies, major agents...

In a formerly monopolized industry now subject to competition, there is likely to be considerable interaction between business strategy and regulation. The paper illustrates the development of this process in UK telecommunications. It sets out a framework in which competition between incumbent...