Industrial Management: Volume 73 Issue 1
Table of contents
Figures that belie confidence
Chancellor Anthony Barber must view with growing apprehension Britain's economic prospects for 1973. His commitment to a 5% growth rate continues to be jeopardised by the apparent…
MP's ‘PRODUCE˜YOU˜KOWN˜POWER’ PLAN TO THWART BLACKOUT THREATS
Paul NovakCOMPANIES ARE BEING urged by Trevor Skeet, chairman of the Tory MPs' Trade Committee, to install their own electricity generating plants to thwart militants in the power supply…
Flurry of deals pitches Keyser into the big bank league
MAURICE BARNFATHERIn the space of 18 months Keyser Ullmann has pulled off a series of deals to make it the second biggest of quoted merchant banks. Keyser's joint managing director, Ian Stoutzker…
Whatever happened to Taft˜Hartley?
Keith MayesWith the IR Act still the subject of seething discontent among Britain's trade unionists, Keith Mayes takes a timely look at the US Taft‐Hartley laws, aimed at putting a rein on…
Never mind the demand, feel the quality
Car‐owning elitists must have viewed with considerable apprehension the takeover last year of ailing Aston Martin by a property and investment concern, headed by William Willson…
PILFERING —industry's hidden losses
No one knows for certain just how much British companies are losing each year through pilfering—but one estimate has put it at a staggering figure of £248 million. Management's…
THE EXPANDING WORLD
Donald F Chambers asks: Is the smaller and medium sized UK manufacturer and subcontractor prepared for the challenge of changing markets and ways of doing business?
NORTH SEA OIL:UK FIRMS ARE CATCHING UP IN THE ‘SPIN‐OFF’ RACE
British companies got off to a faltering start when it came to staking a claim in the lucrative business of building and servicing North Sea oil rigs. Now, spurred on by an…
PRICE FREEZE HITS ALUMINIUM RECOVERY
After a disastrous period of overproduction, demand for aluminium is picking up. But producers are unhappy at what they regard as unrealistic price levels—and the freeze has come…
Industry plays ball on research park venture
Chris PhillipsA British invention capable of mapping the entire earth's atmosphere every 24 hours won deserved acclaim when—in the face of stiff American competition—it was included in NASA's…
ONE MAN IN A BOAT
For a man who puts rowing at the top of his varied sporting activities, Alan Burrough's home couldn't be more ideally situated. It directly overlooks the finishing line of Henley…
Dr Frankel's treatment puts Staveley back into shape
‘Suppliers' credit running at an indecent length’ …. ‘cash used as though it were Monopoly money’ … ‘plenty of paperwork, but the figures were so much junk’ … these, in Dr Adolf…