Management Decision: Volume 16 Issue 4

Clues for Product Innovators

Ray O'Leary

“Developing a new product is one of the most exciting, costly and dangerous things a company can do.”

Inflation and the Redistribution of Wealth

D. Barry, J.R. Edwards

The significance of inflation to any economic system results largely from the redistributive consequences induced by unanticipated, or imperfectly anticipated, price rises. Indeed…

Car Market Price Competition in the Mid 1970s

D.G. Rhys

Rapid inflation, the severe reduction in demand for cars and the resultant over‐capacity, reestablished the importance of price as a competitive weapon in the car market between…

Ecological Pressures on the Firm: Cases and Conclusions

D. Ford, B. Vezeridis

Introduction This article examines a number of cases of companies' reactions to “ecological” or “environmental” pressure against their products. A first aim of the article is to…

Managing a Large Construction Site

R. Halsey, C.J. Margerison

Introduction Every year millions of pounds are invested in designing and constructing massive development projects such as factories, refineries, housing estates, hospitals and…

Developing Useful Management Decision Support Systems

William R. King

The problems which are inherent in designing sophisticated systems that are actually used by the intended user, for the originally‐intended purpose, and at approximately the…