Basil Blackwell Ltd.

Foreword The last five years have seen a significant growth in the number of small businesses in all sectors of industry in the UK. Unfortunately they have also seen an increase in the numbers of problems encountered by those businesses. Often the problems could have been avoided with the right...

Preface The object of this book is to provide a readable text which covers the major areas affecting mergers and acquisitions. One of the problems in attempting to cover this vast topic is to try to keep the book as manageable as possible. However, trade has become, and will continue to become,...

1 The Context: That Uncertain Feeling (Careers can be viewed as fictions about the past to help us feel better about the future.' That was the conclusion reached by two psychologists from Sheffield University, Nigel Nicholson and Michael West, in their study of the career patterns of 2300...

PREFACE by Donald H. Chew, Jr. The U.S. commercial banking industry has fallen on hard times, and the prospects are not encouraging. Bank profits have been squeezed between rising write-offs and shrinking loan volume, dividends have been cut sharply, and stock prices have fallen to levels not...