Management Decision: Volume 4 Issue 1

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techniques in marketing forecasting

J. Davis

More companies probably undertake some form of forward estimation of their markets and their sales than of any other aspect of their activities. The estimates produced may then be…

graduate recruitment in the 70’s

P.R. Plumbley

IN choosing a career undergraduates are no different today from those students of 5, 10, or 20 years ago. They still fall into roughly three groups:

TEAM directors for hire

Present‐day trends for firms and commercial organizations to use management consultants as a guide to efficiency, prompted Management Decision to research the field. Andrew…

information systems/decisions the marketing company

D.A. Miln

IN its simplest terms a marketing company is a means of providing a desired output with available (or obtainable) input. Figure 1 shows the basic Company model on which this paper…

distribution its control and finance

M. Brown

DURING the last two decades there has been a constantly increasing capital investment in distribution facilities. The ever‐growing range of consumer products, pressure on shelf…

a tailored approach to management development

D. Mosley

TODAY what is generally known as management development is in vogue as never before. Among reasons cited in various publications for this increased interest are the tremendous…

computer planning: the garden ornaments management information system project

J.P.A. Race

IN October 1969 the Chairman of Garden Ornaments was quite pleased with the computer department. Invoicing, stock control and payroll had been on it for two years now, admittedly…

the place of design in management by the 1980's

Paul Reilly

THE history of design in manufacture over the last two hundred and fifty years could almost be compressed into three words—integration, disintegration, reintegration—for that…

management and business studies at Warwick

R.I. Trick

ONE of the core programmes of the Business School in the University of Warwick is the 12 months long M.Sc in management and business studies. Now in its third year, the programme…

Management youth and company growth: a correlation?

Peter Hart, John Mellors

THE purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which managerial ages may affect a company's growth rate. A brief discussion of the possible links between age of management…

Cover of Management Decision

ISSN:

0025-1747

Online date, start – end:

1967

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)