Management Decision: Volume 22 Issue 5

From CAP 1 to CAP 2: User‐Initiated Innovation from the User's Point of View

Gordon Foxall, Janet Tierney

User‐initiated innovation is a significant source of new industrial products in certain industries. Recent investigations have been concerned primarily with the identification of…

Practical Financial Policy and Business Planning in an Organisational Context — Part II

A.R. Morden

The second part of this article continues the analysis of business planning by dealing with the pressures on a business to make use of planning down that may result from the…

Management Styles in the Middle East: A Case Example

Ugur Yucelt

Introduction In the management literature there are numerous discussions of how managers may be affected by their cultural and social backgrounds as well as by behavioural and…

Biology‐Based Management

F.D. Barrett

Microelectronics is the science and technology that currently has the highest public visibility, but the science and technology that will dominate the future will be biology…

Determining Consumer Responsiveness to Different Marketing Communications:: A summary of findings from the pilot

Sherril H. Kennedy, Catherine M. Setchfield

Introduction In his quest to maintain or gain market share, the manufacturer of branded goods makes various assumptions about potential customers, using his current knowledge to…

The Cost of Management Information

M.P. Carter

Time The value of any piece of information is related to time. The most simplistic view taken is that the value of the information reduces as time increases. But this view implies…