Agribusiness industries are facing numerous challenges and opportunities resulting from various fundamental forces. An understanding of the forces that are shaping and shifting the competitive landscape is useful to not only understand the strategic positioning decisions of the firms in these industries, but also the dramatic structural changes that are occurring in the food production, process...

Readers of this journal have many reasons to feel gratitude Andrew Porter, who died on 4 March 2021, aged 75. In the first place, he was editor from 1979 1990, initially with B...

Wanting to relate their interest in the corporation's internal economic activities to the social world beyond the firm, business historians may find the study of consumption a valuable area of research. In Consumption and the l•orld of Goods, John Brewer and Roy Porter make this point that no matter how "entrenched" the field of economic history and how vast the scope of social and cultural his...

Knowledge management concerns integrating, sharing, accessing and accumulating information for action throughout the organisation (Pelton, 1999; Porter, 1998). It has been receiving increasing attention as the latest information technology based system to improve organisational efficiencies, which may be in the forms of successful implementation of innovations (Huber, 1990), sustainable competi...

In oligopolistic industries firms face at least two types of uncertainty. First, there is uncertainty about the evolution of demand and possibly also production technology. This type of uncertainty is typically exogenous to the industry. Second, there is uncertainty that emerges endogenously from the strategic decisions of firms. This strategic uncertainty often arises because a firm does not k...