Purpose - During the last 40 years, the growth and impact of UK business schools have been significant. Relatively few studies have reviewed how business school deans emerge and grow. This paper aims to explore the experiences and psychometric profiles of UK business school leaders to understand...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic profiles and differences across globally leading business schools. Design/methodology/approach - This paper used the concepts of strategic group identity and domain consensus to examine the differences across the business...

Purpose - The paper aims to assess the impact of corporate strategy on shareholder value in decline and turnaround situations. Design/methodology/approach - A sample of 45 turnaround firms was selected and matched against a control sample which did not face continuous decline over the time...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to incorporate knowledge concepts into analytical models of strategy formulation and the strategic theory of the firm. Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines four different perspectives of the elusive concept of "knowledge",...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic profiles and differences across globally leading business schools. Design/methodology/approach - This paper used the concepts of strategic group identity and domain consensus to examine the differences across the business...

Strategic group research has progressed over the last two decades to the point where the creation of intra-industry groupings is no longer a significant contribution to management in and of itself. The research to date has not, however addressed questions of why these structures emerge in the...

This dissertation provides extensive empirical evidence--a large sample study over a long period--about the link between strategy and shareholder value. In contrast to the typical measure of shareholder value--stock price times the number of shares outstanding--this dissertation uses beta excess...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-46).

The primary goal of this research is to assess the ways in which rival organizations interact. It is argued that they will generally cooperate as well as compete with each other as they attempt to manage their interdependence. A dilemma of the commons is used as a metaphor to describe the nature...