Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...

Purpose – It is hard to accurately price a merger or acquisition, primarily as there are psychological factors that impact such pricing. As a result, it is hard for traditional financial models to accurately undertake valuations for merger or acquisition transactions. The purpose of this paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the tournament hypothesis in the UK mutual fund market. Based on a previous US study, fund managers were expected to alter risk‐taking behaviour in response to their performance relative to competing fund managers. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical conceptual framework to help business marketers to identify the effect of consumer's online purchase cost on a firm's performance in a dual‐channel competitive market. Design/methodology/approach – A structural model...

Purpose – To explore and identify the strategic approaches firms may follow in their pursuit of value transparency (VT) in inter‐organisational relations in supply networks. Design/methodology/approach – Through the use of game theory an understanding of the difficulties of co‐operation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical method to be used in team decision making when allocating resources. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes the following hypothesis: the selected team consensus strategy from among all available strategies must have...

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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new perspective on the marketing-R & D interface by modelling firms that develop new products in a duopolistic market. Design/methodology/approach – By using a game-theoretic modelling approach, this study examines strategic delegation,...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore potential reasons that might explain why locally owned tourism firms cheat the use of backward economic linkages that (when used) might otherwise maximize the economic benefits of the tourism industry for locals. Design/methodology/approach –...