Weblinks to act as supplements in your studies and provide a greater breadth of information.

Click on the following links, which will open in a new window.

M&S news articles

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/12086370/Bolland-bounce-questions-legacy-of-MandS-chief.html
• http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/marks-and-spencer-can-a-new-team-of-designers-put-the-spark-back-into-the-high-street-brand-10351251.html

Woolworths Shareholders

• http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/long-voyage-ahead-for-weary-woolworths-shareholders-as-chairman-seeks-captain-of-industry-20160121-gmbibd.html

Vertical Integration in the 1990s

• http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/when-and-when-not-to-vertically-integrate

Vertical Integration Now

• www.strategy-business.com/blog/Vertical-Integration-2-0-An-Old-Strategy-Makes-a-Comeback?gko=41fe1
• http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041515/what-are-most-famous-instances-backward-integration.asp

Harvard Business Review article

• https://hbr.org/2012/12/todays-best-companies-are-hori

Mergers Destroy Value

• http://www.bloomberg.com/ss/09/04/0407_failed_merger_talks/1.htm

Horizontal Integration

• http://www.joe-cullen.com/2015/04/horizontal-integration/

Top Corporate Mergers

• http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/business/blog/best-and-worst-corporate-mergers

University Mergers in Europe

• http://www.eua.be/Libraries/publications-homepage-list/DEFINE_Thematic_Report_2_University_Mergers_in_Europe_final

Outsourcing and Natural Disasters

• http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/02/councils-outsourcing-cumbria-public-private-partnership-in-house

Imperial Ambitions article

• http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21696521-mark-zuckerberg-prepares-fight-dominance-next-era-computing-imperial-ambitions