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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

LIKE a prodigal son returned, Alec Snobel comes back to the Editor's chair of “Industrial Management” which he first occupied five years ago. In the interim, he has written two books, edited a trade magazine and enjoyed the bustle of popular journalism in Fleet Street on the Features staff of the Daily Express.

Alec Snobel talks to Britain's leading Personnel Consultants about the market for managers in our depressed economy.

Introducing the first of a new series giving practical advice on how to save, protect, invest and insure your money while minimising tax bills. With medium and highly‐paid executives suffering more than blue collar workers from erosion of earnings, Alec Snobel begins with some valuable tips on cutting costs.

Executives who embark on cost of living economies might do well to review personal insurance cover to see if they are paying more than is necessary, said Alec Snobel in his “managing your money” article in the September issue of Industrial Management. His advice prompted the following reply from John McDonnell, public relations manager with the Norwich Union insurance group.

It's a long way from Burnley to the Bahamas, but a talk‐in in the Caribbean paradise can boost productivity in the industrial North, says Alec Snobel in this special report on company conferences at home and abroad.

Alec Snobel finds that the economic recession and cash flow problems have forced companies to look at their transport costs … and brought a boom in leasing.

OPEC's decision to jack up oil prices at a rate which left the industrial nations reeling with disbelief prompted the obvious fear that “producer power” would extend to other countries rich in natural resources. That threat has receded for the moment as industry demonstrates its unwillingness to pay the higher oil prices by cutting back on consumption, but OPEC's action has given commodity conferences unprecedented importance. Here, Alec Snobel takes soundings of the commodities scene and comes up with a reading which is broadly optimistic.

NO single factor demonstrates British insularity more eloquently — and drastically — than our incompetence in foreign languages. With exports as our lifeblood and competition in overseas markets never fiercer, it is imperative for British business to learn how to communicate with its customers in their own languages. This special Industrial Management report by Alec Snobel considers the problems and surveys the language courses and services available.

While industry and commerce as a whole have been taking a nose dive, air freighting has continued its uninterrupted climb to new heights. Alec Snobel reveals why in this comparative analysis of air and surface cargo costs.