Even if the domain of business longevity has been enriched by the multidisciplinary nature
of approaches used to investigate the phenomenon, the lack of a unifying perspective has …

In a wide-ranging and provocative new study, Bert A. Spector provides a critical analysis of
past and present theories of leadership. Spector asserts that our perception of leadership …

Between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s, most large European commercial banks created
European banking clubs, which were hybrid cooperative organisations meant to respond to …

Project studies have emerged as a thriving subfield of management and organisation
research. Central to project studies, is the idea that engaging in projects has long-term …

In the 1990s, it was said that there was 'very little systematic writing about the methods of
comparative law'(Merryman 1999: 3) and that the comparative methodology was 'still at the …

In the late 2000's banks sold interest rate derivatives to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(SMEs), which decreased their value after the financial crisis of 2007/2008. This increased …

In the section on international varieties of capitalism, our chapter deals with Western Europe.
This is a fairly loose concept, but it stands for a number of countries that were relatively …

This chapter assesses the relationship between the prevalent ownership structures of the
largest European companies and their performance from a long-term perspective. It explicitly …