<title/> Questions of relationships, accountability and responsibility received little attention in the original proposals for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). They now need to be examined, and some awkward and complex issues need to be resolved, before legislation is introduced. This...

Michael Porter's four generic strategies for achieving competitive advantage can be condensed into two - low cost leadership and differentiation. David Faulkner and Cliff Bowman argue that, unlike Porter, it is false to choose between these two orientations. Only the low cost strategy with...

Driven by globalization, strategic alliances have emerged in a wide range of industries; higher education is not excluded, although we still lack sufficient understanding of this emerging field. By empirically investigating 10 China--UK educational alliances, this paper reveals the specific...

This volume presents an analysis of how thinking on strategy has evolved and what the likely developments in the near future are. All the contributors are experts in their area, and bring to the topic an understanding informed by many years' experience of research, teaching, and practice.