Management Decision: Volume 19 Issue 7

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Computer Selection in the Small Business

Steve Coussins

There are many problems that face an organisation or specialist department considering the introduction of an in‐house small business computer system for possibly the first time…

Japan in the Computer Age

Yukimaro Kawatani

Introduction Although Japan and the European countries involved in computing are at opposite ends of the Eurasian land mass and the cultures are even further apart, Europe is more…

Microcomputers in a Decentralised Company

P.L. Bubb

Introduction AFA‐Minerva (EMI) Limited is an international company with comprehensive interests in fire protection and intruder prevention. It has some 25 offices in the UK and…

Distributed Processing

B.T. Johnson

In the days before distributed processing the DP manager enjoyed a halcyon existence. He had control over users, control over data and he had a guaranteed operational revenue. The…

Women in Data Processing

Steve Shirley

The legitimate daugher of the poet Byron, Ada Countess of Lovelace, was the world's first programmer. In 1842 she wrote her now classic comment: “The Analytical Engine has no…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb014481. When citing the article, please…

Cover of Management Decision

ISSN:

0025-1747

ISSN-L:

0025-1747

Online date, start – end:

1967

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)