The fact that China is an increasingly attractive market and a magnet for foreigndirect investment is not news. The unprecedented rise of foreign direct investmentinto China – now running at over $60 billion a year – has created the largest array ofinternational mergers and acquisitions,...

In a fast moving world, one of the biggest challenges facing organisations is dealingwith discontinuous innovation (DI). Most organisations understand that innovation isan organisational imperative. They learn to listen to customers and constantly evolvetheir existing products and services,...

The Human Resources (HR) profession is going through possibly the most significantperiod of upheaval since it became established as a distinct organisational function.The principle reason for this is the impact of Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO),part of a widespread move to outsource business...

Meetings, an understudied aspect of organisational life, play a key role in theformulation of strategy and strategic change within organisations. More importantly,the likelihood of proposals for strategic change being made, and how those proposalsare received in the wider organisation, depends...

This briefing examines the international success of British companies in the contextof the industries that they operate in. It does this by measuring international successusing global market share and international revenues and combining these in a matrixto create a visual representation of...

We live in a world that moves at a bewildering speed. At work we are bombardedby information. There is written information in the form of reports, team workingdocuments, schedules, regulations, emails and much more. Not to forget all theinformation provided verbally in meetings and other face to...

The concept of the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is a comparativelyrecent development in Human Resource Management (HRM). An HPWS is a worksystem comprising of various employment relations practices intended to createcompetitive advantage by integrating the firm’s strategic objectives...

Productivity is an important indicator of competitiveness and economic health.Recent debate about the competitiveness of the UK economy has focused attentionon the gap between UK productivity and the productivity of other players in the globaleconomy, such as the US, France and Germany.A more...

The issue of who benefits from innovation is a complex one. The answer is notalways the innovator. It may be other firms that are needed to get an innovationto market (complementary assets), or even those who produce imitations andadapted versions of the original innovation.For the innovator the...

Common sense suggests that organisations should learn from their successesand failures. Surely a project that turns out to be a great organisational successshould provide useful information that increases the chances of future successes.Similarly it might be imagined that a venture that turns...