Simon Caulkin

No amount of generosity has so far succeeded in putting us out of business, says Danny Meyer of his successful New York restaurant group.

OUTSOURCE EVERYTHING except your soul,’ the excitable guru Tom Peters once exhorted. And companies all over the world have responded with a will.

Game theory in economics is remaking humanity in its own stunted image.

Problems of research methodology and corrupt data bedevil much management literature, turning it into reassuring parables rather than reliable guidance based on empirical evidence.

Although the glancing relationship – and glaring contrast – between the rich and poor Indias has struck onlookers for decades, the rise to world prominence of the country’s IT industry has given it new poignancy.

THE COMPANY is a remarkable invention – in its public, limited-liability form, it is capitalism’s most influential social and economic innovation, a crucial component of the modern economy. The organisational revolution triggered by the joint stock compan

Private equity: a new and purer model of capitalism – or the work of amoral asset strippers after a quick buck?

Both Dell and Apple reflect the strengths and weaknesses of their dominant founders as if it was imprinted in their genes.

READING Russell Ackoff’s slim new book is like being pricked by a series of delayed electric shocks.

THE JUSTIFICATION for big business – and the management principles which govern it – is that it is the engine of economic development.