Management Decision: Volume 15 Issue 6

The Impact of Dual Career Family Development on Organisational Life

Homai Madani, Cary L. Cooper

The dual career family, which at one time was considered a rarity, is a lifestyle being accepted by more and more couples today. The postwar period has seen a boom in the…

A View from the Engine Room: Junior Managers' Attitudes Towards Corporate Social Responsibility

Bryan Lowes, George Luffman

The past decade has witnessed a heated debate in the Western industrial nations about whether or not large companies should accept broader social obligations commensurate with…

European Accounting

C.W. Nobes

Introduction Knowledge about European accounting is becoming steadily more necessary and more useful to accountants and businessmen. One of the reasons for this is the growth of…

The Development of the Marketing Concept: Relation to the Doctrine of Consumer Sovereignty

Ivor S. Mitchell

Introduction The terms “marketing concept” and “consumer sovereignty” have definite elements in common, but after a certain point they veer in separate directions. The focus of…

Marketing and Corruption

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

Introduction Corruption is like the slow rotting of a dead body says a modern author. Unsatisfied with a “rotten body” analogy, one may want a non‐moralist definition of…

The Role of Technical Change in International Competitiveness: The Case of the Textile Machinery Industry

Roy Rothwell

Introduction A recent paper in Omega has suggested that one of the prime reasons for the catastrophic decline in the UK's share of world ship building during the twentieth century…

International Transfer Pricing

A.G. Slater

Introduction The growth and development of an individual business may take several forms, from internal growth to acquisition and merger. If development reaches the stage of a…