Management Decision: Volume 18 Issue 7

How a New Computer Based Capacity Register Offers a Vital Service for Industry

Eric Willis

Many companies have never faced more difficult trading conditions than in 1980. The combination of high interest rates, rapid inflation, a high value pound and a collapse of…

Level of Service: Inventory Management's Positive, Productive Side

Tabor R. Novak

Introduction The concept of inventory management consists of establishing and maintaining the proper balance of two complementary, yet conflicting goals: maximum level of service…

The Methodology of Q‐Analysis: How to Study Corporations by Using Concepts of Connectivity

R.H. Atkin

The method I propose to discuss in this paper is one based on ideas of structure (essentially a geometrical notion): How we are to define it (make it precise) and how we are to…

Strategic Implications for Technology Based Firms Entering Consumer Markets

Tyzoon T. Tyebjee, Albert V. Bruno

A phenomenon which characterised the late 1970s was the proclivity of technology oriented companies to enter consumer markets. For example, in the past five years the traditional…

Company Response to the EEC: Examples from the Food and Drink Industry

J.R. Nicholls

Introduction Musschenbroek pointed out in early 1973 that the accession of the UK to the EEC represented a major change in the environment for the UK food and drink industry. UK…