Management Decision: Volume 12 Issue 3

Job Restructuring and Work Organisation: Some Views on some Recent Developments

Ray Wild

This paper summarises some of the points arising from a recent study of developments in mass production systems. The study conducted during 1972 and 1973, was concerned with…

Product Line Strategy

Michel Chevalier, Daniel Zumino

In most businesses, strategic decisions are implemented by changes in the components of the product line or shifts in emphasis within a product line. In fact, most products…

Management Practice and the Politics of Motivation

P.M. Reynolds

This article is concerned with the manager whose interest in people being “motivated” constitutes a wish to see that not only is a job done, or done faster, but that the people…

Cost‐Volume Relationships and Changes in Levels of Activity

D.M.C. Jones

Information provided for managers by an accounting department can be divided into two broad categories: (a) information which will help managers to control future costs incurred…

FINANCIAL & LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

Panel on Take‐Overs and Mergers There have been occasions during the chequered career of the Panel on Take‐overs and Mergers when it has appeared to be inhibited by its voluntary…

Production Funnels: A New Tool for Operations Analysis

Colin New

In all manufacturing operations the sequence, raw materials to components to products, is followed to some degree. Cross‐sectional component flow analysis (CSCFA), or more simply…

A Closer Examination of some Aspects of Behavioural Accounting Research

G.H. Ray, J.A. Piper

This article consists mainly of a description, analysis and criticism of four research studies in the area of behavioural accounting. We have selected these particular studies…

The Role of Research in Management Decision Making

Roger Bennett

Introduction The last decade or so has seen an immense growth in the amount of research carried out in a wide range of management aspects. Currently, the position is one of…