Purpose – To summarize some of the recent literature which has focused on the Eastman Kodak Company. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Reports of Kodak's...

In the 1970s, when management hoped to secure growth and success through classical diversification strategies, a new gleam of hope in the form of “high‐tech” seemed to appear on the horizon. Encouraged by the remarkable success of young enterprises like Compaq or Lotus, and unnerved by...

Purpose – This study is designed to explore international marketing standardisation (IMS) by investigating the choice of IMS for industrial product (ID) and non‐industrial product (non‐ID) operators and firms from Australia and New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – This study has...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between a company's customer‐related performance and its learning and growth capabilities. Design/methodology/approach – Four banks in Taiwan – Citibank, Chinatrust, Taipei Fubon Bank and Taiwan HSBC – have recently...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the study traces 30 international marketing strategies of Nigerian agri‐business firms in order to learn whether these firms work today according to the marketing concept in their attempts to export their products. The second purpose is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review international industrial purchasing and marketing literature with a focus on portfolio models, to develop portfolio models for buyers' and sellers' international strategies, and to combine the models so that both the buyer and seller...

Machiavelli is too often and quite wrongly impugned. Rather than being the master of intrigue, he should be valued as the first political scientist. He deduced what brought political success. The gist of his advice to the Prince is that loyalty, winning it, inculcating it, is the key to success....

Focuses on how national travel and tourism authorities can market a country as a tourist destination, with particular reference to the marketing of Australia and New Zealand to target markets in Germany and the United Kingdom. These two nations in Europe are by far the most important tourist...