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Management styles and methods are radically different in different countries as are patterns of education and training and patterns of manpower deployment in industry. The operations of multinational companies in the U.K. reflect to some extent patterns imported from multinationals home countries. Clearly, cultural differences would act as constraints on any attempt to copy directly from other countries. But where foreign owned firms have been relatively more successful in the U.K. than British owned firms there are lessons to be learned.

Three serious threats face the level of employment in the UK economy: declining international competitiveness; the manpower implications of technical change; and demographic factors outside the scope of this article. Preliminary findings of a research programme at the Scienee Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, are presented in this contribution. The research was designed to improve understanding of relationships between success in international competition, technical change and patterns of manpower and skill deployment in the UK engineering industry.

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.