This paper has mapped out three current areas of concern for project mana gement as a discipline. These were defined as the management of external influences, integration of the parties into coherent project teams and establishing clear achievable goals known to all.

It has been argued that the lack of transparency on the London Stock Exchange, caused by the practice of delaying publication of large trades, has adverse consequences for the market in traded share options on LIFFE. This hypothesis is investigated in two ways. First, the structure of equity...

drawing on observations in British and German Brewers, this paper seeks to explore the potential of analitical fecus on the ways in which accounting is combined with other forms of organisational knowledge in talk.

Megers and aquisitions have become a major factor of corporate life and have been fully researched in the financial and strategic literature. However, despite the increasing interest in this topic, there is not consensus about the causes of merger failure. This paper reviews the literature on...

We consider two alternative models of work organisation: One deals with those organisational systems which rely on the commitments of its members for realizing set productivity targets. The other is a strategic model which considers the role of its members' strategies as a defining input towards...

To the authors' knowledge this is the first study to use Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to explore the domain of Transfer Pricing. Data has been collected from a sample of UK multinational enterprises (MNEs) concerning their transfer pricing policies. This paper illustrates the applicability of CBR...

When organisational members work on strategy development shared sets of beliefs influence the strategic decision process and, thus, can influence the performance of an organisation. The relationship between the development of shared sets of belief and the strategic decision process has not yet...