Planning review meetings between business unit managers and corporate managers are notoriously disappointing. The main problem isn't the design of the process or the capability of the participants. Rather, it's the lack of an adequate corporate‐level strategy as context for the reviews.

A revised edition of the bestselling classicThis book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the arrangements that have been used in the present crisis and their relative success and to look to the post‐crisis situation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines and explains the crisis and the roles of deposit insurance and...