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Over the past 15 or 20 years, there has been a steady stream of management techniques evolved and published. Many have scarcely caused a murmur of interest. A few have been hailed entirely new and capable of magic. Whilst it will be untrue to say that all of these techniques have been discarded or passed into oblivion, there is little doubt that one will have to struggle to remember some which, in their day, were thought to be miraculously effective and, without doubt, destined to be the keystone of further advances in the art and science of management.

A recent research study of chief executives shows that the man most likely to make it to the top of the Australian corporate ladder will be the one who has been thrown in the deep end to gain leadership experience early in his career, works long hours, has attended a GPS school, taken a university degree in finance/accounting related subjects, gained most experience in this area, worked for 3.5 organisations on the average and held 8.7 jobs on the average.

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.