Sustainability challenges present organizations in many industries with the need to change. Leaders are critical to the process of becoming more sustainable, and yet leading change for sustainability requires new competencies. Learning at an individual level is central to developing new...

By 2008 Great Britain had one of the most competitive residential electricity markets in the world, with high levels of consumer engagement and competitive retail margins. However rising electricity prices, driven by international gas price rises, have led to a series of increasingly misguided...

Once the poster child of energy market liberalization, the U.K. is now grappling with the difficulties of balancing competitiveness, energy security and ambitious decarbonization. But will the recent proposals for Electricity Market Reform be effective? The strategy as a whole does not seem...

More and more companies in the UK are developing strategies to address the challenges of climate change. We focus on the UK retail sector and explore the role of partnership in shaping the climate change commitments and actions taken by retail companies. We use a social capital approach to...

The ability of managers to identify and interpret challenges in the external environment is one of the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities. The underlying literature on strategic issue interpretation suggests that interpreting environmental challenges as opportunities rather than threats...

This paper discusses some of the new and continuing ways in which the public sector is involved in the electricity / energy sector around the world. This involvement continues to be significant in spite of the longrunning trend towards privatisation, competition and independent regulation in the...