The literature relating to networks and organizational culture has acknowledged trust to be a valuable intangible asset. This article reviews the theoretical literature and the limited empirical research on trust in relation to business organizations and activity. Within this framework, the...

This article challenges an interpretation of early and mid-Victorian business history which has emphasised the damaging effects observable during the late nineteenth century of a prior ossification of the industrial structure and of an associated lack of entrepreneurial vigour or aspiration...

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Combining the neo-classical model of imperfect competition approximating to the markets in which the three firms competed with the resource-oriented and agency concepts of Edith Penrose, this essay describes, analyses and compares the evolution of the product development policies of three...