The Corporation in the 21st Century: Introduction
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruin...
Other People’s Money
What do the people who occupy the skyscrapers of the City of London and Canary Wharf actually do?’...
The titans’ inability to apologise for this sorry mess
I have been listening to supermum Nicola Horlick on the Today programme. She was discussing the investments made by the company s...
The Hare & the Tortoise
A fable for senior executives
Once upon a time, a tortoise lived in the marshes on the edge of a large plain. The tortoise had...
Derrida
‘No one in the lunch room has ever heard of him. I can look him up on Google if you like’. When The Guardian newspaper sou...
The Truth about Markets / Culture and Prosperity (US title, 2004) – 2003
Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American busine...
The Business of Economics – 1996
John combines common sense and rigorous economic thinking in a number of essays on business and economic issues - the competitiveness o...
Foundations of Corporate Success – 1993
How Business Strategies Add Value. What distinguishes the successful firm is the fundamental question in business strategy, and one the...
The British Tax System – (5th edition) 1990
How does PAYE work? What exactly is VAT? How does social security legislation or inflation affect the tax system? Why do so few compani...