Strategic group research originated in the 1970s and a number of notable studiescentered on the US pharmaceutical industry. Results were however, conflicting. Thisthesis explores the nature of strategic groups and the related concept of competitivegroups in the UK pharmaceutical industry during...

This exploratory paper, developing a conceptual model of owner-manager characteristics and access to finance, aims to investigate whether the concept of strategic groups plays a role in the process of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accessing finance. Strategic groups are groups of...

This chapter looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...

This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...

This chapter looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...

Ethanol production from non-edible feedstock has received significant attention over the past two decades. The utilisation of agricultural residues within the biorefinery concept can positively contribute to the renewable production of fuels. To this end, this study proposes the utilisation of...

In May, 2000 the RICS Research Foundation published ?Forecasting Office Supply And Demand?. The publication included a multi-equation office market forecasting model based on office market cycles for the City of London (the ?RICS Model?). The RICS Model adopted variables intended to be common to...

The objective of this paper is to review the experience of infrastructure regulation in low and middle income countries, to assess the applicability of this experience to developing Asia, and to identify areas for future research on infrastructure regulation in the low and middle income...

Under pressure from donor agencies such as the World Bank, a number of developing countries have experimented with the privatisation of water services. This study reviews the existing econometric evidence on the effects of water privatisation in developing economies before presenting new results...

Rate of return or cost of service regulation was the traditional means by which governments, especially in the USA, regulated profitability and prices in privately-owned public utility businesses. However, rate of return regulation was associated with efficiency disincentives. Hence, in 1983...