The European Business Review

By Christopher Alden
Spurred on by the global financial crisis, leading emerging states such as China have taken an increasingly commanding role in global economic affairs in response to the trauma experienced by Western industrialised states. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in Africa, a continent traditionally regarded as sitting on the margins of the [...]

By John Mullins
The evidence indicates that the vast majority of business plans raise no money. Of those ventures that are financed, many if not most will fail. What’s wrong with this picture?
Planning is important. But results are what count. And who delivers the results? Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs like you [...]

By Mikkel Kallesoe
All of the Earth’s ecosystems have been changed by human actions in some way in the past 50 years. This was the troubling conclusion in 2005 of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, perhaps the most comprehensive audit ever of the world’s natural resources. All ecosystems, it said, had been severely compromised in their ability [...]

By Simon Groves
The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrates that patriatism is alive and well throughout the world, and the images of ecstatic – some would say fanatical – supporters urging their national teams to victory, not to mention the constant deafening barrage of the now world famous (or should that be infamous?) vuvuzelas, still resonate [...]

By Peter Schmidt, Atradius Chief Market Officer
This article is concerned with trade credit – the agreement to delayed payment for goods or services supplied by one business to another – and how the current economic crisis has challenged the ways trade credit could be properly and efficiently managed to develop and maintain successful long term [...]

By Adam Turteltaub, The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics

There is a tendency to believe that we can fully understand risk and fully manage it.  Or, can we?

Over the last few years embracing risk has been celebrated to an extraordinary degree.  Risk management, enterprise risk management, and GRC (Governance, Risk and [...]

By Simon Chadwick, Coventry University
All well-written dramas have a beginning, a middle and an end, in between which the plot will twist and turn, often in unexpected ways. So it is then, that the global economic downturn appears to have all the hallmarks of a classic drama. The impact of the downturn on sport has [...]

By Paul F. Nunes, Carolyn J. Polka and Larry Thomas
As discretionary spending all but disappears, companies must make adjustments in product mix, pricing, promotions and channel strategy to deliver the innovation today’s customers value. By providing offerings with a clear range of desirable benefits and delivering them at the right price point, leading companies will [...]

By Andreas Tesch, Atradius

After the economic turmoil of the past two years, the press is keen to let us know that the recession is, in most countries at least, technically over. But what does that mean?
Seemingly desperate to grasp at some good news after the economic turmoil of the past two years, the business pages [...]

Travel and expenses represent most companies’ second-largest controllable expense. Driving compliance and visibility with these expenses provides vast opportunities for savings. What major opportunities are we now seeing, would you say?
As more companies tighten controls on business travel spend, the demand for comprehensive MIS that identifies out-of-policy spend is increasing.  Providing our corporate clients with [...]