Multinational corporations are increasingly seen as excessively big and powerful, and as having dramatically increased in size and power. This perception has led to the view that the big corporations are threatening democratic institutions of the nation-states and that they pervert the cultural...

In this text, Heidi Vandei Bauwliede reports on the reflections offered by Professor Hal Varian at the occasion of the third seminar, 2000-2001, on 'E-conomics of Trust' of the PwC Chair Value and Risk The new network economy differs in various respects from the old economy. Hence, some call for...

The Internet is like an engine driving commerce into a future rich with opportunity and challenge. Despite the potential, many organisations are reluctant to participate. Their executives feel they lack sufficient control in this new environment. Some want to take a more measured approach, with...

Multinational corporations are increasingly seen as excessively big and powerful, and as having dramatically increased in size and power. This perception has led to the view that the big corporations are threatening democratic institutions of the nation-states and that they pervert the cultural...

This paper examines the pattern and extent of inter-regional transfers of professional footballers between clubs in the English football league system over the period 1990-1991 to 1999-2000. Our study emlploys a variant form of an established trade flow model and, in presenting and confirming...

The theory of reference prices has great theoretica1 appeal and considerable managerial significance. This paper provides a test of reference price theory in a general setting allowing for threshold effects and asymmetric market response with respect to the threshold. The theory is rigorously...

Should students in business schools leam to understand relevant theory and if so, why? This paper argues that the right attitude is one of theory without apology. Future leaders and managers should learn to understand their environment and only good theories can serve as all infrastructure Tor...

Quality has to be built into products and processes during the design stage of their development. It is therefore crucial that any decision made in this early stage of development is based on accurate information. The information is typically obtained from a series of expermental tests, in which...