Simple game theory offers a number of important insights into strategic behaviour in a competitive business environment. Provides some flavour of the issues which can be addressed. Using a two‐firm framework, considers how some familiar and recurring business decisions can be analysed as...

The environmental consultancy market is, by any measure, expanding. Yet, what does the future hold for those entering the market? In essence the market will be split between three types of organizations: large environmental consultancies; niche players; and low‐cost providers of environmental...

Deals with the problem of timing the adoption of a new technology. This is a very important question of strategy which directly affects the firm’s competitive capability and whose analysis cannot be adequately faced by conventional capital budgeting techniques. Aims to provide a procedure for...

Many managers are experiencing a “quickening” of their decision‐making processes. The globalization of business, the advances in communications technology and increasing demand for prompt data analysis and interpretation have been the primary drivers on the impact of time for decision...