The advent of the Single Market is increasing the intensity of competition between different regions of Europe at a time when national governments are experiencing a curtailment of their powers to assist them. Regions are not just competing for foreign investment, but with the increased mobility...

We have in the last few years been deluged with travellers' tales from the People's Republic of China, exhorting us to do business there, and encouraging us to believe in the integrity of Chinese business systems. Equally it always seems that we are to accept a slight air of mystery about how...

Product competition in a growing number of markets is undergoing a profound transformation. Some firms are now beginning to use new kinds of 'flexible designs' for products and organizations to pursue innovative product strategies that generate unprecedented levels of product variety and change....

Many industries are now evolving new kinds of competitive environments which are not adequately explained by traditional strategy theory. This article introduces a movement to make strategy theory more relevant to contemporary forms of competition by rethinking both the content and process of...