Management Decision: Volume 20 Issue 3

Scientific Inventory Control and Manufacturing Environments

C.D.J. Walters

Inventory is an essential part of the manufacturing process, but quantitative analyses have tended to concentrate on a narrow range of problems. Although the characteristics of…

Understanding Barriers to Product Innovation at the R & D: Marketing Interface

A.F. Millman

This paper is about relationships between R & D and Marketing personnel in industrial companies and their influence on product innovation. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental…

Liveware or Real People? Using Human Resources in Information Handling

Elizabeth Orna

Information handling systems of all kinds are created by people, operated by people, and dedicated to serving people. Some systems make it hard to believe this proposition, and…

Optimal Policies for Claiming Payment under Price Escalation Clause Types of Contracts

Alfred Z. Keller, Yash P. Gupta, V. Supriyasilp

Generally, in the contracting industry, the contractor works in an,environment of risk and uncertainty caused by the economic factors such as fluctuations in the costs of labour…

Public Advices to Management Educators: 1960/1980

Gordon Wills

It is a familiar enough concept in the teaching of management that the business organisation is an open system, operating in an environment susceptible of analysis. The same logic…