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David Freestone investigates the most important development in shelf edge pricing to emerge in recent years. He finds that its applications are far‐reaching and have major advantages for retailers.

Introducing new technology to the processes of design, production, assembly and management in manufacturing offers enormous opportunities — greater flexibility and quality; reduced costs, inventory and lead‐times. But it often doesn't work out like that — a report commissioned by Ingersoll Engineers showed that 50% of Advanced Manufacturing Technology applications were judged unsuccessful by the firms involved.

Learn these lessons about how bankrupt companies turn themselves around before you're anywhere near the brink.

New age technology is obliterating geography. By redistributing economic power around the world, it is creating a footloose economy that permits firms to locate in a variety of nontraditional venues.

Reports on a change process at Anglian Water using personal development plans (PDPs). The plan encourages staff to think of their whole life and their hopes, ambitions and expectations. Explains the PDP process. Dimensions of the PDP include job skills, the wider business, the home and personal life and the wider community.

Interrelations of writings in a complex field such as studies of science, technology and society, turn out to be highly patterned when data on author co‐citations are statistically analysed and mapped. For both authors and specialities, the maps reveal structures of subject matter and intellectual impact, based on the perceptions of hundreds of citers since 1972. A new tool thus is available to historians and others concerned with a field's intellectual development.

Gives a bibliographical review of the finite element methods (FEMs) applied for the linear and nonlinear, static and dynamic analyses of basic structural elements from the theoretical as well as practical points of view. The range of applications of FEMs in this area is wide and cannot be presented in a single paper; therefore aims to give the reader an encyclopaedic view on the subject. The bibliography at the end of the paper contains 2,025 references to papers, conference proceedings and theses/dissertations dealing with the analysis of beams, columns, rods, bars, cables, discs, blades, shafts, membranes, plates and shells that were published in 1992‐1995.