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This paper aims to discuss how over the past 180 years, a succession of largely unrelated entrepreneurs of differing capabilities have either created or recognised and exploited opportunities offered by this enduring company, their heritage and brand.

Primary data was provided from discussions with Fabergé experts and the new owners of the brand. Extensive secondary data was also used and analysed.

The original Fabergé creations numbered some 200,000, but their creator is remembered best for 65 unique Imperial (and other) Eggs. Many pieces have survived, although the business disappeared in 1917. Since then, dealers and collectors have intervened symbiotically to protect the brand equity – supported by serendipitous popular cultural interventions – although a series of parallel entrepreneurial but parasitic interventions meant the brand and the original products became separated. This changed in 2007 with new owners acquiring the brand and resurrecting high-end jewellery production with a new business model. Their contemporary journey is both informed and shaped by Fabergé’s tumultuous past.

Reinforces that while a universal theory of entrepreneurship eludes us that these three key elements – opportunity, uncertainty and resources – help explain the related behaviour of a series of different intervening entrepreneurs. This framework is offered for wider use and testing.

Advances the understanding of how entrepreneurs spot and enact opportunity.

Develops a model embracing parasitic and symbiotic interventions in the history of a brand, and a conceptual entrepreneurial model capturing three key elements that explain entrepreneurial behaviour. These being: opportunity seeking and exploitation, addressing uncertainty and deploying appropriate resources.

Introduces the use of account activity relative to client peer groups as a means of identifying unusual behaviour, as part of money laundering detection; assumptions can be made about what constitutes normal transactional behaviour for an individual, so that deviations from this can generate risk factors. Analyses an account history as a time series of asset movements that can be characterised by a function whose Fourier transform can be computed, yielding a function of a frequency; the so‐called Power Spectrum can be derived, and this specifies the “power” or magnitude of asset movement in the account as a function of frequency. Points out that the method also allows detailed inter‐institutional comparisons of account activity.

Based on experience working with a manufacturer of ceramic sanitaryware, whose Chief Executive has recognized the need to introduce more (some?) marketing orientation and more (some?) design skills into the organisation. A marketer and a designer were recruited simultaneously and tasked with bringing about the introduction of new models of bathroom suites. Designed to involve students in the kind of culture and interface issues which in real life often present challenges equal to those posed by the marketing environment itself. Verbatim comments from different functional areas illustrate departmental perspectives. The case also raises some issues relating to the organisation of the new product development (NPD) process, particularly to marketing research and branding.

A SPLENDID conference, I thought. True, there were those who complained, those who thought some of the papers were elementary and those who thought that we had come a long way to learn very little. I don't agree at all. Some of the papers did, I admit, deal with basic considerations but it does nothing but good to re‐examine the framework of our services from time to time. In any case other papers were erudite, and for the first time I have seen an audience of librarians and authority members stunned, almost, into silence.

The purpose of this paper is to expand on the idea that appropriate theory can lead to prompter and more effective action, or prevent the waste time and resources in trying to achieve empirically something we can never attain.

Starting from anecdotal examples, the paper shows how appropriate theory can lead to prompter and more effective action, or prevent from wasting time and resources in trying to achieve something we can never attain. Then it reports about an example of the potential for applications coming from a proper methodological approach (namely a research project carried out by the Ufficio Italiano dei Cambi in association with the London School of Economics) and its methodology. Finally it deals with complexity and the conditions for acting upon a system, the need to work out preventative monitoring instruments and how it may be approached. In the field of financial crime, a research project, which UIC (the Italian FIU) has been carrying out in association with the London School of Economics, explored a methodology aiming at mapping behaviours associated with money laundering in terms of IT assisted targeting models.

The process of model building rests on the appropriate design of the path that goes from choosing the elements to describe the behaviour, to identifying the better parameters to reflect them, and to setting out proper queries that match parameters within the available data. A proper methodology assists and assesses every component and step of the process. If we want to act in a system, we have to develop a systemic cognitive framework and a systemic approach. We must be aware that the system will react rearranging its internal structure and procedures, and take this reaction into account. If we want to combat effectively financial crime, it is crucial that we know what instruments and opportunities the system offers to those who are to act within it. We need to work out monitoring instruments to be used to predict/intercept crooks' possible actions. We must identify structural links and connections, risk areas and loopholes. We have to map our possible routes, discover connecting nodes and access points that are not sufficiently guarded, becoming able to address proper action. Research can do much to help find appropriate answers.

The paper addresses regulators, enforcers and academics in the field of anti‐money‐laundering and anti‐terrorism‐financing action. It shows that research can help both in developing/gathering knowledge and in integrating knowledge into action. This need for qualified, practical‐fitted knowledge is the widest field of possible co‐operation between research – a kind of new frontier in whose development to invest resources in search of innovation, synergies and new strategies for the times to come.

Nobody concerned with political economy can neglect the history of economic doctrines. Structural changes in the economy and society influence economic thinking and, conversely, innovative thought structures and attitudes have almost always forced economic institutions and modes of behaviour to adjust. We learn from the history of economic doctrines how a particular theory emerged and whether, and in which environment, it could take root. We can see how a school evolves out of a common methodological perception and similar techniques of analysis, and how it has to establish itself. The interaction between unresolved problems on the one hand, and the search for better solutions or explanations on the other, leads to a change in paradigma and to the formation of new lines of reasoning. As long as the real world is subject to progress and change scientific search for explanation must out of necessity continue.

Infrastructure construction has experienced significant recent advances in automation. Such advances will only accelerate in the future. They are founded on enabling technologies such as positioning systems, advanced control methods, and graphical interfaces. This paper begins by describing the relevance of these enabling technologies to automation in infrastructure construction. It then focuses on classes of applications, including earth moving, compaction, road construction and maintenance, and trenchless technology. Because of the less regulated, relatively repetitive, and well‐financed nature of such work, it is likely to experience quicker progress than other application domains.

Social marketing initiatives designed to address the UK's culture of unhealthy levels of drinking among young adults have achieved inconclusive results to date. The paper aims to investigate the gap between young people's perceptions of alcohol consumption and those of government agencies who seek to influence their behaviour set within a contextualist framework.

The authors present empirical evidence from a major study that suggests that the emphasis of recent campaigns on individual responsibility may be unlikely to resonate with young drinkers. The research included a meaning‐based and visual rhetoric analysis of 261 ads shown on TV, in magazines, on billboards and on the internet between 2005 and 2006. This was followed by 16 informal group discussions with 89 young adults in three locations.

The research identified the importance of the social context of young people's drinking. The research reveals how a moral position has been culturally constructed around positioning heavy drinking as an individual issue with less regard to other stakeholders and how the marketing agents function in this environment. Calls to individual responsibility in drinking are unlikely to succeed in the current marketing environment.

The qualitative research was limited to three geographical locations with young adults between the ages of 18 and 25.

The authors explore implications for social marketing theory and for UK alcohol policy. In particular, the authors suggest that the social norms surrounding young people's drinking need to be acknowledged and built into “sensible” social marketing campaigns. The authors suggest that shame, fear and guilt appeals should be replaced with more constructive methods of ensuring young people's safety when they drink.

From the theoretical perspective of contextualism, the paper brings together empirical research with young adults and a critical analysis of recent social marketing campaigns within the commercial context of a “culture of intoxication”. It provides both a critique of social marketing in a neo‐liberal context and recognition of issues involved in excessive alcohol consumption.

Many of the situational factors affecting career motivation are under the boss's control. The perception of several bosses of their role in management development in two companies is examined. The cases are derived from interviews with bosses of young first‐line managers. Interviews were also conducted with one subordinate of each boss. Company A did not have a management development programme, company B did. The boss's role in a subordinate's management development should be viewed in relation to the career development policies and programmes of the organisation. He or she can have a positive effect on career motivation even in an environment which is not conducive to career development. Boss training should focus on how to enhance subordinates' career motivation by encouraging individual contribution and personal growth. Bosses should be evaluated on the attention they give to subordinate career development.

Gives an in depth view of the strategies pursued by the world’s leading chief executive officers in an attempt to provide guidance to new chief executives of today. Considers the marketing strategies employed, together with the organizational structures used and looks at the universal concepts that can be applied to any product. Uses anecdotal evidence to formulate a number of theories which can be used to compare your company with the best in the world. Presents initial survival strategies and then looks at ways companies can broaden their boundaries through manipulation and choice. Covers a huge variety of case studies and examples together with a substantial question and answer section.