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Sole Survivors: How Exceptional Companies Survive And Thrive At The Edge, Anto Kerins Jan 1999

Sole Survivors: How Exceptional Companies Survive And Thrive At The Edge, Anto Kerins

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Some companies seem born to fail, while others manage to survive and thrive despite great adversity. What are the secrets of the survivors?. Sole Survivors puts nine such companies under the microscope to discover what sets them apart from their less-successful competitors, what make them "exceptional". But these nine are neither blue-chip multinationals nor high-tech operators. They are small to medium-sized European companies in a traditional section that has been decimated in recent times-footwear manufacturing. This book tells the stories of these companies in detail from their historical development through to their current business strategies, from their organisational structures to …


Reconsidering The Management Of Marketing, John Murray, Aidan O'Driscoll Jan 1996

Reconsidering The Management Of Marketing, John Murray, Aidan O'Driscoll

Articles

The pace and extent of change in marketing landscape over the past decade has left many questioning the worth of marketing and its tenets. For many marketing educators it is a period of doubt and self-searching about the efficacy and role of the discipline. Yet empirical evidence reveals firms that have not only coped with these changing circumstances but have also found new and imaginative ways of winning competitive advantage. Marketing practice is adopting novel shapes and modes. In the field of management in general, new approaches to understanding and running organisations are being considered. One way of comprehending an …