Planning Review: Volume 7 Issue 5
Table of contents
The blooming baby boom
Ian H. WilsonThe world, as we are constantly reminded, can be divided into two types of people: those who believe that major social and political changes still lie ahead; and those who are…
The who, what and why of zero‐base budgeting
J. Franklin SharpWhat's behind the great interest in zero‐base budgeting (ZBB)? Why has ZBB been adopted so quickly—often uncritically—by so many companies and governmental units?
Society's ravelled sleeve: A perspective on the planners dilemma
Arnold BrownIncreasingly, planners in both public and private enterprises will have to cope with the contradictions that make managing our organizations and our society ever more difficult…
The basics for bargaining: A code for multinationals
Rudolf W. KnoepfelFor their opponents, the Multinational Corporation (MNC) is a rapacious, exploitative, immoral and blatently malevolent institution, the source of most of the socioeconomic…
The strategic variations trap
E.J. SmattThree great scholars, one each from the United States, France and Israel, came to the same conclusion at the same time—the world would soon come to an end by flood. A great…
Values, planning and the future
Lewis MillerWhile considerable care must be paid in the planning process to the collection of data and to the deductive and inductive logical activities that go on in working with this data…