What caused the UK's cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure. -- .
This text re-works business models for a financialized world and presents a distinctive insight into the way in which national, corporate and focal firm business models have adapted and evolved. It also shows how, in the current financial crisis, financial disturbances can be amplified, transmitted and made porous, by accounting systems, threatening economic stability. This is a valuable resource for practitioners, academics and policy makers with an interest in management, accounting and economic policy.
Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car business since Henry Ford.Karel Williams teaches at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Manchester.John Williams is Professor at the Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics, University of Wales at Aberystwyth.Colin Haslam and Sukhdev Johal direct the Business Policy Group at the East London Business School, University of East London.