Management Decision: Volume 9 Issue 3

COMPUTER‐AIDED MANAGEMENT: A Case Study

Ian Duff, Malcolm Henry

This case study in the textile industry illustrating a new approach to scheduling and stock control describes the use of a computer to give faster feedforward of planning…

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION: A Study of Success and Failure in Innovation

Andrew Robertson

The idea of optical character recognition (OCR), in other words the “reading” of documents by other than human means, arose as a practical proposition during the Second World War…

THE PATHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

Roger Jones

Management DecisionWork and Individualism The culture of Westernised society is work centred and individualistic. Work is basic to all societies in the sense that men must work to…

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

The Panel on Take‐overs and Mergers When the wave of big take‐overs of the late‐1960s was at its height, considerable concern was being expressed in government, financial and…

THE ACQUISITION AS A CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION

Adrian Buckley

Growth by acquisition has been one of the major characteristics of the industrial scene during the last decade. In the U.K. this pattern of growth was evidenced at the beginning…

ANNUAL PROFITABILITY EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF DCF

A.C. Hutchison

The Discounted Cash Flow technique has been widely adopted in industry as the preferred method of evaluating the profit earning potential of alternative projects when they are…

CORPORATE STRATEGY IN A MEDIUM SIZED COMPANY

D.M.C. Thomas

There is a growing recognition that long range and strategic planning are essential to the survival and healthy growth of a company, particularly at this time of accelerating…

INVENTING THE FUTURE

William Simmons

Dennis Gabor published a book in 1967 entitled, “Inventing The Future”. In his book, he gives us an inspired vision of man's future, in the tradition of Wells, Haldane, Huxley and…

PROJECT PENTAGON: Staff‐Line Relations in Complex Organisations—Part II

Ad Teulings

In the last issue we discussed the structure of social relations between staff and line managers from the perspective of coalition theory. A typology of staff‐line relations was…