Management Decision: Volume 23 Issue 5

Future‐oriented Management

George Korey

In just a few years, we will be facing a world that is quite different from the one in which we live today. As a result of changes that will come we must strive to make life…

Roots and Shoots of Management Thought

J.C. Wofford

Management theory and practice are not created in a vacuum nor are they created at the whim of management writers. Contemporary management theory and practice are rooted in the…

Cambietics: The New Science of Managing Change

F.D. Barrett

This morning I picked up a favourite old book, one that has the title, The Dynamics of Change. Despite its very contemporary title, the book is scarcely new. It was published…

Communication in the Future: Managing in the Information Society

Yvonne Bogorya

The 1980s is a decade of transition into the information age in which technological developments will speed up the process of communication. Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave…

Utopian Workplaces: The Role of the Computer

C.E. Tapie Rohm, Patrick McInturff

Approaching the twenty‐first century should reinforce the notion that modern managers work in an environment of uncertainty. Contingency analysis has become merely a fact of…

Group Participative Decision Making: The Management Style of the Future

Bill Ralston

Introduction The purpose of this article is briefly to review the theoretical concepts and practical applications of group participative decision making (GPDM), especially at the…