Management Decision: Volume 22 Issue 1

Applying Microelectronics to Manufacturing — The Need for Skills

Michael Cross

The first industrial revolution was born with the steam engine. It was the steam engine which changed, in a short period of time, almost every factory both in the United Kingdom…

Education for Managers of Accelerating Change

George Korey

We are living in an era of very profound and fast changes, when the computer is a link between human expertise and the advanced world of mechanical and electronic technology. We…

Marketing in the Middle East and North Africa

Erdener Kaynak

The Middle East and North Africa is often viewed as a monolithic, homogeneous mass market. Of course this is not a true picture of the region and its people. At one extreme is…

Quality — The Linchpin to British Manufacturing Success

B.G. Dale, A.G. Duncalf

“Since the UK industrial revolution, it has been taken for granted — in Britain — that the quality of British manufactured goods is high. If this were ever true, the situation has…

The Board of Directors in Large Australian Companies

Geoffrey Kiel, Phyl Blennerhasett

The role of the board of directors in modern Western corporations is set out in both the legal codes and in the writings of management thinkers, and has been a topic of increasing…

Action Learning: Are We Getting There?

R.W. Revans

Five Earlier Stages We ought by now to be seeing a few results. Sometimes, they are what we hoped for; indeed, a signal may be so close to what we thought we were aiming at as to…