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Most OD consultants would like to think that any truly effective company should be capable of making adequate adaptations to changing situations and conditions. It must be flexible when appropriate. OD in Nigeria through our Organisation Dynamics Development Consultants' Unit attempts to achieve just that. The Unit attempts to disseminate information on the promotion and understanding of OD effectiveness of Nigerian companies and induce appropriate changes in company procedures, structure or products. However, OD is no easy thing in Nigeria. Larger companies in Nigeria have difficulty in maintaining any kind of flexibility. Good ideas are not always accepted or even recognised, whilst divisional and ethnic rivalry sometimes impede change. Emphasis tends to be on operating well today, rather than superbly tomorrow.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.