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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.

Part of my philosophy of training is based on a Chinese proverb: What you hear you forget ‐ What you see you remember ‐ What you do you understand. This proverb emphasises the Hallmark of Training ‐ the necessity of the trainee to understand. It also indicates two vital areas of training ‐ presentation and participation: the visual and the active. The credibility of training depends on the quality of its presentation. Poor presentation gives the trainee the impression of a slovenly approach and in no way is this more important than in the introduction to any course. You never have a second chance to make a first impression. This is never more true than in training. A poor start produces a poor course and this is not the fault of the trainee. The trainer controls the introduction of any training. It should be carried out by the best member of the team, even if he is not a prominent tutor.

National Westminster Bank, in common with all organisations which “grow their own managers”, is required to train certain of the staff to attain a wide ranging knowledge of the specialised fields of its work. This is particularly so of the International Division, where at the present time a “long course” has been organised to train young men and women, who have already reached junior management, in the work of departments that deal with the processing side of international business. Eventually as many as 12 people at any one time will be attached to this two‐year course and they will stay one month, three months—whatever time is necessary—in a department on a “working attachment”. This actual “doing” of the work will create a firm understanding of the procedures and give a very broad and solid basis to their banking careers.

Britain's biggest Skillcentre — when fully operational it will have 576 training places — has opened at Handsworth, Birmingham. To meet the increased need for training in the area, the Skillcentre has been rebuilt and extended to meet the demands both of prospetcive trainees and employers so that it is now the largest in the country. The potential output will be 700 trainees a year in 33 occupations. These men and women are Training Opportunities Scheme (TOPS) trainees. TOPS offers to men and women aged 19 and over the opportunities to train for a new or better job in craft skills, clerical and business studies through to technician, executive and managerial skills. Courses are run in Colleges of Further Education, employers' establishments, and TSA's own Skillcentres.

Analyses, critically, the interest in “knowledge work” and the “knowledge age”. Arguing that definitions of “knowledge work” and predictions regarding the future trajectories of knowledge organizations are characterized by confusion and ambiguity, calls for a quite different form of analysis. Argues that energy should be directed away from the study of “knowledge work” ‐ the privilege of a minority élite ‐ and redirected to acknowledge the extent of working knowledge across the workforce as a whole.

This register of current research in social economics has been compiled by the International Institute of Social Economics. The register does not claim to be comprehensive but is merely an aid for research workers and institutions interested in social economics. The register will be updated and made more comprehensive in the future but this is largely dependent on the inflow of information from researchers in social economics. In order to facilitate this process a standardised form is to be found on the last page of this register. Completed forms, with attached sheets as necessary, should be returned to the compiler: Dr Barrie O. Pettman, Director, International Institute of Social Economics, Enholmes Hall, Patrington, Hull, N. Humberside, England, HU12 OPR. Any other comments on the register will also be welcome.

Human society is going through an interesting period in terms of the challenges it faces. The most interesting problems are environmental problems. In support of protection of the environment in which we live, we must find efficient and clean (ecological) solutions, at the same time, for the materials and technologies that are the basis of the goods production. In this context, the problem of means of transport, in general, and land road transport, in particular, will remain one whose solution will probably mark multiple stages in the attempt to abandon fossil fuels. Even if this problem will be solved, the travel routes – roadways – represent an additional challenge in terms of construction materials and technologies but also in terms of maintenance and rehabilitation technologies. In the context of Industry 4.0, the concerns in the field of road execution and repair are more and more obviously aimed at elements of the circular economy. Solutions are sought and experimented for: reuse of degraded asphalt material, incorporating reused/reusable materials into the asphalt mixtures and the implementation of ecological execution technologies. In this work, it is intended to carry out an analysis regarding the technical and technological solutions implemented or in the proposal/experiment stage that respond to the desired "Sustainable technologies for road maintenance and rehabilitation".

This chapter is a contribution to the intellectual history of the anxiety that full employment in the modern United States depended somehow on military spending. This discourse (conveniently abbreviated as “military Keynesianism”) is vaguely familiar, but its contours and transit still await a full study. The chapter shows the origins of the idea in the left-Keynesian milieu centered around Harvard’s Alvin Hansen in the late 1930s, with a particular focus on the diverse group that cowrote the 1938 stagnationist manifesto An Economic Program for American Democracy. After a discussion of how these young economists participated in the World War II mobilization, the chapter considers how questions of stagnation and military stimulus were marginalized during the years of the high Cold War, only to be revived by younger radicals. At the same time, it demonstrates the existence of a community of discourse that directly links the Old Left of the 1930s and 1940s with the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, and cuts across the division between left-wing social critique and liberal statecraft.

Alvin Hansen and John Williams’ Fiscal Policy Seminar at Harvard University is widely regarded as a key mechanism for the spread of Keynesianism in the United States. An original and regular participant, Richard A. Musgrave was invited to prepare remarks for the fiftieth anniversary of the seminar in 1988. These were never published, though a copy was filed with Musgrave’s papers at Princeton University. Their reproduction here is important for several reasons. First, it is one of the last reminiscences of the original participants. Second, the remarks make an important contribution to our understanding of the Harvard School of macro-fiscal policy. Third, the remarks provide interesting insights into Musgrave’s views on national economic policymaking as well as the intersection between theory and practice. The reminiscence demonstrates the importance of the seminar in shifting Musgrave’s research focus and moving him to a more pragmatic approach to public finance.