Addresses the issue of business failure. Identifies different types of business failure and provides a framework for further research into this aspect of strategic management. Draws from the management literature to describe the causes and processes of each of the failure contexts covered and...

Examines the nature of crisis‐prone organizational beliefs and behaviours and focuses particularly on disaster‐proneness. Explains why arrow views of reality and the organizational systems and behaviours promoted by such views lead to crisis events. Contextualizes this examination and...

As demand mounts for a review of the UK’s privatized utilities regulatory system, focuses on an increasing public phenomenon ‐ that of conflict between regulators and regulatees. Identifies the factors contributing to the difficulties which the regulators face in carrying out their roles....