Management Decision: Volume 22 Issue 2

Corporate Life Cycles and the Evolution of Management — Part I

Scott S. Cowen, J. Kendall Middaugh, Kevin McCarthy

Corporations, like products, go through various stages of development from birth to maturity to decline. Although there is conceptual agreement among management theoreticians and…

Senior Managers and Computers

C.J. Martin, G.W. Winch

Introduction The history of business computer systems development indicates a trend towards the increasing awareness of the potential for man‐machine synergy in some form. Until…

Pitfalls to Avoid with Modelling Languages

Birgit Norgaard

DSS—déjà vu? The arguments employed in support of the use of Decision Support Systems generated by modelling languages are very similar to the arguments used to implement…

Computers, Change and Fear: An Unholy Trio

Phillip C. Wright

If an organisation is to flourish, a constant influx of technical innovations must be accepted and utilised by both management and labour. This ability to introduce technological…

The Integration of Product Decisions

Gordon E. Greenley

The product decisions a company needs to make are presented by the current literature within a framework of corporate planning. In this area there is a mass of explanation and…

International Technology Transfer in the Middle East and North Africa

Asim Erdilek

Introduction The importance of international technology transfer derives from the central role of technology in modern economic growth. The continuing diffusion of successive…

Decision Analysis as an Aid to Strategy

Howard Thomas, Charles R. Schwenk

“Statistical decision theory is a theory of decision‐making, i.e., of selecting among alternatives. It is not a theory of problem solving, i.e., of finding the cause of a…