European Business Review: Volume 95 Issue 6

Productivity, quality and ethics – a European viewpoint

Alan Stainer, Lorice Stainer

Emphasizes the productivity and quality connection in relation tocompetitive advantage in operations management and strategy. Discussesthe issue of ethics and its interface with…

Critical issues to consider when developing business operations in Eastern bloc countries

Farhad M.E. Raiszadeh, Marilyn M. Helm, Michael C. Varner

As companies become increasingly interested in doing businesswithin Eastern bloc countries, ordinary issues critical to success willbe of paramount importance. Although the basic…

Unemployment: does Europe have a strategy

David Floyd

Unemployment has become one of the key challenges for Europeanmember states and the process of further economic integration as oneapproaches the later years of the 1990s. The main…

Managing the economic impact of accounting regulation: the Spanish case

John Blake, Oriol Amat Salas, Julia Clarke

Company financial managers, when confronted with a change inaccounting regulations, may face a change in their economic environmentas a result of the reaction of users to the…

Mental modelling complexity in EC value chains

Peter McHardy

Presents a method for environmental scanning for small– tomedium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) not familiar with strategic planning.Mental modelling is used to scan the domino effects…