Managing Financial Risks while Performing International Commercial Transactions. Intertemporal Lessons from Athens in Classical Times

Managing the RE Process: Lessons from Commercial Practice

This paper focuses on managing the early stages of the RE process. A revelatory case from commercial practice is used to describe some of the forces that affect management of the RE process and present ways of successfully dealing with these forces. Several lessons from the case are outlined, including adaptation of methodologies to the contingencies of the particular project, characteristics o...

Managing Improvisation within Change Management: Lessons from UK Financial Services

Organisational improvisation is increasingly seen as a useful management skill, particularly in dynamic or turbulent business sectors, and there is growing evidence of its benefit in the management and implementation of change. The data here are collected within one such situation; the project management of change in the UK financial services sector. An interesting finding is the extent of impr...

Managing the financial risks of electricity producers using options

a r t i c l e i n f o Electricity producers participating in electricity markets face risks pertaining to both selling prices and the availability of the production units. Among electricity derivatives, options represent an adequate instrument to manage these risks. In this paper, we propose a multi-stage stochastic model to determine the optimal selling strategy of a risk-averse electricity pr...

Comment: Rating the Law – How Financial Agencies are Assessing the Legal Risks of Financial Transactions

Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...