Management Decision: Volume 19 Issue 3

A Step by Step Approach to Introducing Computer Technology Into Small and Medium Sized Firms

Eric Willis

The enormous advances in micro‐electronics in recent years has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the cost of computing power. Today's small business computer systems costing from…

Decision Analysis with Multiple Objectives—Application to a Product Mix Problem in a Public Enterprise

J. Zif, K. Chatterjee

I. Introduction The general manager of a state owned manufacturing plant in a developing country has to decide how to allocate production between two products. The first product…

Preferences for Decision‐Making Responsibilities Indicated by Skilled Blue‐Collar Workers

Lawson K. Savery

Except for a few notable exceptions, such as Zupanov and Tannenbaum, Arzensek, Ramsay and Bertsch and Obradovic, most studies on workers' participation appear to ignore the…

Financial Reporting for Employees

David Lyall

The disclosure of financial information to trade unionists has received widespread attention in recent years and detailed lists providing specific guidance on the type of…

The Practice of OR: Operationalising Ackoff

David Sims

Introduction In 1978, at the Operational Research Society Annual Conference, Ackoff presented two “state of the art” type papers, which were subsequently published. This article…