"Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fierce struggle...

In this paper we reflect on the contribution of our 1989 article Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities: The Case of Scottish Knitwear Manufacturers. We begin by recalling our backgrounds and motivations as collaborators on the project, and then discuss recent developments in the Scottish...

Technological advancement compounds the complexity of competitor identification making it increasingly multi-front and multi-dimensional. Strategic groups are an important unit for competition analysis, typically delineated by firms’ characteristic similarities or cognitive maps. Both have...

Various approaches have been offered as aids for assessing subjective probability distributions. These include the fractile method, the method of relative heights and applications of psychometric methods, e.g. multi-dimensional scaling. Previous laboratory research has examined and compared...

Analytic decision aids have been criticized by some practitioners for their inability to address questions of problem formulation. These aids typically begin with the assumption that a problem has been recognized and stated, and that the task of the sequential step-wise analysis process is to...