that this requires fresh thinking and a more entrepreneurial approach. Strategies highlighted include consolidation … innovation in an emerging market context and the role of strategic management in addressing such disruption through consolidation …

predominantly expected to achieve revenue growth and efficiency benefits through consolidation and change in ownership form. In one … difficulty in estimating and realising the magnitude, timing and associated costs of consolidation benefits and the consequences … of failure to achieve expected benefits; also it suggests advantages in a more conservative consolidation approach …