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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.

Agile manufacturing, a strategy developed from lean production methods, is aimed at providing companies with the capabilities to succeed in the twenty‐first century, serving ever more sophisticated customer demand. In this paper, the application of this strategy, originally developed for manufacturing industry, is described in a telecommunications context. Examples of ways in which it is being used in BT are presented.

Purpose: We critically examine the idea of neurodiversity, or the uniqueness of all brains, as the foundation for the neurodiversity movement, which began as an autism rights movement. We explore the neurodiversity movement's potential to support cross-disability alliances that can transform cultures.

Methods/Approach: A neurodiverse team reviewed literature about the history of the neurodiversity movement and associated participatory research methodologies and drew from our experiences guiding programs led, to varying degrees, by neurodivergent people. We highlight two programs for autistic university students, one started by and for autistics and one developed in collaboration with autistic and nonautistic students. These programs are contrasted with a national self-help group started by and for stutterers that is inclusive of “neurotypicals.”

Findings: Neurodiversity-aligned practices have emerged in diverse communities. Similar benefits and challenges of alliance building within versus across neurotypes were apparent in communities that had not been in close contact. Neurodiversity provides a framework that people with diverse conditions can use to identify and work together to challenge shared forms of oppression. However, people interpret the neurodiversity movement in diverse ways. By honing in on core aspects of the neurodiversity paradigm, we can foster alliances across diverse perspectives.

Implications/ Values: Becoming aware of power imbalances and working to rectify them is essential for building effective alliances across neurotypes. Sufficient space and time are needed to create healthy alliances. Participatory approaches, and approaches solely led by neurodivergent people, can begin to address concerns about power and representation within the neurodiversity movement while shifting public understanding.

People with intellectual disabilities experience poorer health outcomes than the general population, and a significantly increased risk of mental health comorbidity. Their access to healthcare has been consistently shown as inadequate, and their access to mental health support is still largely wanting. Adequate training and education should improve these shortcomings but there is limited evidence available as to the best way to achieve this. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

This paper reports on the co-production and co-delivery of a simulation training course to support healthcare professionals to provide care for people with intellectual disabilities, with a particular focus on their mental health needs. This training was designed with actors with intellectual disabilities, who participated as simulated patients in scenarios during the course and subsequently provided feedback on their experience.

This paper focusses on the positive experiences of the simulated patients, reporting on and interpreting their direct feedback on their experience of contributing to the development and delivery of the course and being involved as co-educators.

It is highlighted that the co-production and delivery of this simulation training with people with intellectual disabilities has the potential to realise some of the key principles called upon when attempting to improve how they are treated, by illustrating concrete participation, independence, and access to fulfilling lives. The value and benefits of interprofessional education to achieve these educational aims is further highlighted, particularly for the potential to generate a sense of shared responsibility within mainstream services in caring for people with intellectual disabilities.

This study examines how various characteristics of the discount retail environment and the overall attitude towards a discount retail store, considered to be an abstract and global image component, influence consumers’ satisfaction and how consumers’ satisfaction, in turn, affects store loyalty. The data, collected from a sample of 517 discount retail customers in Daegu, Korea, indicate that: (1) forming the overall attitude is more closely related to in‐store services: atmosphere, employee service, after sales service and merchandising, (2) store satisfaction is formed through perceived store atmosphere and value, (3) the overall attitude has strong influence on satisfaction and loyalty and its impact is much stronger on loyalty than on satisfaction, (4) store loyalty is directly affected by most significantly location, merchandising and after sale service in order, (5) satisfaction is not related to customers’ committed store revisiting behavior. The applications in management and implications for future research are discussed.

WHEN ROBERT HERRICK, that weaver of lovely words, wrote that, it was Youth that Man was accused of squandering. Never before have we been so guilty of that crime than as we are today.

1986 heralds a period of significant change for SWALCAP, the Bristol‐based co‐operative, currently supplying centralised cataloguing and circulation systems to 23 Member libraries. Firstly, as of 1st January it ceases to be a consortium of libraries and becomes SWALCAP Library Services Ltd, a private company limited by shares: the shareholders are the existing members, or those of the membership who have elected to take shares in the new company. Secondly, the first quarter of 1986 will see the full launch of SWALCAP's local integrated library system which has been in development for the last 18 months. The first general public viewing is scheduled for the Bath Online Conference (see p.) in April. Development has been undertaken in conjunction with the System Working Group, comprising SWALCAP staff and representatives from member libraries, so that there has been a strong user input into the system design. Over the past few weeks, SWALCAP has been running a series of seminars to bring the members up to date with progress and to introduce them to those modules which are more or less fully developed, namely cataloguing, catalogue enquiry and circulation control. Public access and authority control will be available imminently, with acquisitions and serials control modules in the pipeline for 1986/87. The following pages take a look at the system to date as it has been shown to the SWALCAP membership. The account is, for the most part, based on a live demonstration of the system, with full system software and a database of 100,000 records; where simulations or other sources were used, this is made clear.

A look at computing literature in general and library literature in particular over the last few years reveals steadily increasing interest and investment by libraries in the use of wireless Ethernet technology (802.11). This article attempts to shed light on the motivations underlying the use of this technology in a variety of libraries across the country as well as the role of the library in deploying wireless within the local community. Further, it looks at potentials and considerations for the evolving 802.11a and 802.11g standards. It does not address other applications of wireless protocols such as those for use with cellular phones.