Industrial Management: Volume 72 Issue 2
Table of contents
No ponds for small fish
It does seem rather strange that, whilst the Government attempts to get industry going by wielding an economic sledgehammer, it refuses to use a small spanner to release latent…
The naked giants
Richard DobsonMULTI‐NATIONAL BUSINESS has suddenly become a highly fashionable topic. It is a safe subject for any businessmen's seminar; it is a safe target for criticism from almost any…
£100 million job grants likely to stay in regions
Paul NovakAn unusual appetite for eating their own words, a peculiar pastime for politicians, is being displayed by Government ministers. And this healthy predilection for changing course…
Continental lorries to go further ahead
David HaworthWHAT IS Europe going to do about the juggernaut question—whose problems from the British angle were detailed in January's Industrial Management editorial?
Mike Hammond, roadsweeper
THE AFTERMATH OF INDUSTRIAL RECESSION and a rapidly expanding university population are not the only reasons for the disturbingly high number of graduates joining Britain's dole…
PULLING OUT OF THE PROFIT DIVE
The gloss and trimmings needed for the world's number one status industry finally caught up on the airlines. Arthur Reed, air correspondent of The Times, talks to the chief…
Euro‐centre for freight hangs on UK air merger
BRITAIN'S TWO STATE AIRLINES are almost certain to merge their freight interests, very possibly by 1974. A BOAC‐BEA combine would be the most significant development in the air…
Bureaux back in business after the crashes
Hardened by harsh experience, computer bureaux that have survived the recession of the past couple of years are bracing themselves for better times. The trends are now towards the…
International gas‐man
‘I now realize that the ability to manage a company is not enough by itself when you come up against the complexities you meet when a company's operations cross frontiers.’ So…
Building on bubbles
Talking a lot of hot air about something which has very little substance and has been around for a long time anyway doesn't sound the most promising way to promote a product. But…
Buddy, can you spare a million?
Keith MayesDavid Sarnoff, the RCA chairman who died in December, was an outstanding example of the American creed that, Whittington‐like, a man can rise from immigrant penury to become a…