Successful alternatives
Alan Shipman highlights the range of partnership, family, mutual and cooperative enterprises which have successfully resisted pressures to become a ‘public limited company’, and whose market leadership adds to the pressure to reform the shareholder model.
Read a transcript of the podcast here
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John Lewis is mentioned in Alan's podcast and there's a programme on BBC2 tonight about the household name department stores as it tackles tougher competition and the recession. The programme explores whether a business model developed in the 1920s can survive the commercial turmoil of the 21st century, and you can check it out here.