The changing demographics and the aging of the population are affecting the age composition of consumer markets. This, in turn, creates opportunities and challenges for organizations serving consumer markets. This article reviews some corporate challenges and opportunities facing the corporate...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and...

Will your company be like so many “one‐hit” wonders that failed because of their inability to adapt through innovation? Many companies meet this fate. Management shortfalls on the path to developing new market successes include: (1) A lack of the requisite skills and resources to sustain...

Declares the effort involved in scenario creation means organizations are loath to publicize them. Depicts corporate scenarios in the public domain as: Statoil; Digital Equipment Corporation; US Defence Industry; and an unnamed US IT company; plus the European Commission. Lists generic scenarios...

Believes ‘head to head’ combat is no longer a relevant metaphor that businesses can use in today’s competitive arena. States that applying the principle of ecology to businesses will help them to grow and thrive — thereby helping managers understand how competition in business is...

Examines the fact that Philips adopted a quality campaign in 1983 with mixed results, culminating in a $2.2 billion loss in 1990, and the reasons for the failure. Illustrates, for example, that the quality initiative became part of existing rivalries and was considered separate from “normal”...

Discusses a quality assurance approach to environmental management with reference to case material from Lucas Rists Wiring Systems. Concludes that an environmental management system should be relatively easy to implement in an organisation with a solid strategy foundation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter advocated a corporatist principle of economic organization enunciated by Pius XI in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno . Schumpeter insisted that a corporatism of associations could provide social leadership and economic co‐ordination to ensure a stable, high employment...

Summarizes the findings of a survey dealing with business meeting practices in giant Korean corporations. Describes both meeting practices in very large Korean firms and also top Korean executives′ feelings about those meetings. Korean executives consider adequate preparation, clearly‐set...

Contains a review of the literature on research conducted to investigate organizational practices in downsizing after a restructure and the effects of these practices on the organization and its employees, in particular, and on other stakeholders in general. Based on the literature review,...