Dialogue between the leaders of academic clinical organisations in different countries has revealed that the core elements of the partnership between universities and health care systems are remarkably consistent across national boundaries. There is now an impetus to move beyond analysis of...

Les échanges de vues entre les directeurs d’organisations cliniques universitaires de différents pays ont montré que les facteurs fondamentaux du partenariat entre universités et systèmes de santé sont remarquablement homogènes d’un pays à l’autre. On constate actuellement une...

Purpose – To examine the importance of appropriate education for health services managers and to identify what might be included in the curriculum for health services management education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper approaches these two questions through an exploration of the...

This paper reports the results from a project designed to track the evolution of industrial and corporate structure of EU manufacturing alongside the ongoing European integration process. At the heart of the work is the construction of an "EU market share matrix" for 1993. This includes...

It is conventional wisdom that collusion is more likely the fewer firms there are in a market and the more symmetric they are. This is often theoretically justified in terms of a repeated non-cooperative game. Although that model fits more easily with tacit than overt collusion, the impression...

Previous empirical assessments of the effectiveness of structural merger remedies have focused mainly on the subsequent viability of the divested assets. Here, we take a different approach by examining how competitive are the market structures which result from the divestments. We employ a...

The purpose of this paper is to identify empirically the implicit structural model, especially the roles of size asymmetries and concentration, used by the European Commission to identify mergers with coordinated effects (i.e. collective dominance). Apart from its obvious policy-relevance, the...