The domestic market environment is host to complex phenomena that affect, and are affected by, the actions and activities of both exporting and non‐exporting firms. In this regard, a significant degree of research attention has been devoted to overseas competitive environments and the nature...

The UK has often looked abroad in search of a successful approach to managing the economy, e.g. lessons were taken up in the 1960s from French planning, from worker participation in Germany in the 1970s, from monetarism in the USA in the 1980s and, in the 1990s, from Japan and South East Asia,...