Management Decision: Volume 12 Issue 5

Cumulated Output and Cost Behaviour

Stephen Lofthouse

IIn a number of publications, but especially in the Boston Consulting Group's booklet Perspectives on Experience, it has been argued that a profitable corporate strategy is to…

Current Practices and Issues in Management Appraisal

David Ashton, Peter Taylor

Appraisal plays a critical part in the development of management resources in any organisation. From the standpoint of the boss‐subordinate relationship, the performance areas…

Flexible Working Hours‐Panacea or Placebo?

Karen Legge

At regular intervals over the past two decades, management has been presented with various attractively packaged techniques, offered as the panaceas to cure hitherto perennial…

FINANCIAL & LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

Monopolies Commission Clears Eagle Star Bid The depressed state of the stock market and the deadlocked political situation have combined to take most of the steam out of the…

Serving Two Masters in the Modern Organisation

A.J. Eccles

This venerable truth has long been enshrined within industrial organisations. Its modern counterpart of “one man, one boss” is a familiar cry whenever managers discuss the design…

Research into Share Price Behaviour

M.A. Firth

Over the last ten years there has been an enormous growth in research into share price behaviour. Most of the studies have been undertaken in the USA although there has recently…

Consumerism as an Element of On‐going Social Change

R.A. Layton, G. Holmes

Consumerism has become a fashionable area of concern, centred on the belief that there is a compelling need to strengthen the consumer's position in the market‐place. Consumerism…