Introduction : the reinvention -- The setting : corporate renewal in a tight business culture -- The background : Japan's economic rise-stability through lifetime employment -- The core concept : aggregate niche strategy -- The impact : Japan's role in global business -- Management change :...

Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

This multidisciplinary book takes an innovative approach to corporate governance by linking governance and complexity theory. It provides important new insights into why governance systems are failing and what may be done to improve this situation

Corporate leaders pay considerable attention to the strategy and finances of their organization but often less attention to organizational features that impact whether their strategy is successful, including the decision-making structure and the incentives, values and culture that motivate...

The concept in this title, presented as a narrative, contends that the corporation is created by law to function like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.