The anatomy of strategic change in companies in Europe has been little investigated. Recently the British Economic and Social Research Council sponsored an audit of management based on interviews with over 1000 middle and senior executives and directors in 190 companies. The survey examined the...

Recent writing on contemporary organisations is suggestive of extensive moves to create more responsive and flexible firms. Such claims often rest on studies of exceptional organisations or atypical sectors. Drawing on large-scale surveys of organisational innovations in Europe and Japan, this...

Business schools are increasingly faced with external pressures to demonstrate their impact on society. Reducing public budgets, the pervasive effects of business school rankings, and a correspondence between the rise and rise of business schools in higher education and increased scepticism...