This essay compares and analyses the evolution of Taylorist consultancies in the three major European economies. It shows that institutions established by the business community, often with government support, can provide an alternative channel for the dissemination of new management methods....

[eng] Abstract The article gives an overview of the development of government-business relations in France from the end of the Second World War until today. It distinguishes three periods in terms of the degree and objectives of government intervention and the adaptation of the French system to...

The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external pressures, on the other. This framework is applied to the...

This article questions the ‘uniqueness’ hypothesis of East Asian business by highlighting a number of interesting similarities between its steel industries and those of Western Europe. These similarities concern the relationship between the steelmakers and the steel-using industries in each...