In a recent paper, Johnston and Lewin (1996) analyse the stream of research on organisational buyer behaviour published over the past 25 to 30 years isolating eight propositions which they encapsulate in their 'Risk Continuum'. Our paper, reports a comparison between Johnston and Lewin's...

This paper explores the rôles of the Single European Market and converging European consumer lifestyles as change agents in grocery retailing. Porter's structural analysis is used as a framework to analyse the intensification of competition which Keith Thompson and Simon Knox believe will...

This study presents a methodology for estimating extreme current speeds from numerical model results using extremal analysis techniques. This method is used to estimate the extreme near-surface and near-bottom current speeds of the northwest Atlantic Ocean with 50-year return periods from...

Estimation of the probability distribution of extreme sea levels, for the present time and the next century, is discussed. Two approaches are described and their strengths and weaknesses are compared. The first approach is based on dynamics and uses a storm surge model forced by tides, winds and...

The major British supermarkets are confident and successful businesses which have combined an enviable growth record with margins which are three times as high as those of their mainland European counterparts. However, they are in danger of being marginalised within Europe by their reluctance to...

This paper will seek to analyse the performance of the public sector in implementing affirmative action policies intended to promote employment equity. This will be done primarily by examining the pattern of changes in public sector employment over the past five years. Wherever possible, public...