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Research and Economic Growth: The Role of Public Policy

One cardinal way to speed up America's economic growth is for government to u...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

Making Long-Range Company Planning Pay Off

Here are five steps which will help make your firm's long-range plans pay off...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

How Much Business Expansion in 62?--A Joint Forecast of the Business Outlook by 23 Experts

The economy of the U.S. will continue to expand throughout the year and 1962 ...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

Organizing the Marketing Function in a Growth Industry

Even a production-oriented new industry must soon become market-minded and or...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

Local Taxes--Business Burden or Subsidy?

Can the business community afford lower taxes, particularly state and local t...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

The Management Side of Pert

Brain child of management consultants called in to integrate the Polaris prog...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

Legal Reserve Requirements for Deposit Institutions

Would uniform reserve requirements for all deposit institutions significantly...

Article Volume 4 Issue 2 | Winter 1962

Is Inflation Inevitable?

There is no such thing as a little or "controlled" inflation and those who ad...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Decentralization in a Wider Context

What happens when the Organization Man meets decentralization? Experiences of...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Framework for Marketing Strategy

It's up to the marketing staff to maximize a firm's total revenue net of sell...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Service Center Data Processing for the Business Community

Electronic Data Processing (EDP), born of military necessity, is now controll...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Industrial Challenge in Southern Italy--The Case of the R-T Factory

While the situation at the R-T factory may not be typical of the state of ind...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Forecasting Metropolitan Growth

There is a pattern to urban growth which makes it possible to forecast booms ...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Some Implications of the Newer Analytic Approaches to Management

The liaison between science and management, which has made terms such as line...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Capital Requirements for Economic Growth

The article presents information on capital requirement for economic growth. ...

Article Volume 4 Issue 1 | Fall 1961

Businessmen’s Concepts of "Injury To Competition"

Injury to a competitor is not always the equivalent of injury to competition....

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

Combating Discrimination in Employment

Merit employment is not only the law of the land, but good business and good ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

The Mythical Personnel Manager

Everyone thinks of him as a staff man who serves management in an advisory ca...

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

The Concept of the Firm

Sociologists, psychologists, economists, mathematicians, all view the firm in...

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

Problems of Economic Growth and Automation

Call it displacement, technological unemployment, or what you will, automatio...

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

Labor Relations in France

Never underrate the power of French unions. Don't be fooled by their apparent...

Article Volume 3 Issue 4 | Summer 1961

Experiences With a Complex Management Game

Games designed for teaching can also be used as diagnostic devices to spot we...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

Is the Supply of Urban Land Running Out?

Urban land shortages are likely to be self-imposed, more imaginary than real,...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

The Politics of a Changing Corporate Society

As society grows more complex, the big corporation thrives and amasses politi...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

A Simplified Capital Budgeting Approach to Merchandise Management

The rationalization of decision-making in the manufacturing sector of the eco...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

An Approach To Computer-Base Management Control Systems

In an era of automated information technology, the ability to formulate decis...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

Labor Relations in Britain

A vast number of strange and different way of doing the same things he has be...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

Managing a Publicly Owned Corporation Is a Public Trust

When a corporation "goes public" and seeks capital through sales of stock, ma...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

Rhochrematics and Organizational Adjustments

Rhochrematics, which is the new science of material and information flow, has...

Article Volume 3 Issue 3 | Spring 1961

Setting Sales Quotas

Sales quotas need not be set intuitively or by hit or miss "we've got to beat...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

International Intelligence for the International Enterprise

Today international intelligence is as essential to international businesses ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

Population Explosion--Its Implications for Business

Don't let the burmper baby crop fool you. There are undercurrents in the popu...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

Stock Dividends are Lemons, Not Melons

While stock dividends sound glamorous and warm the hearts of uninformed inves...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

How Management Can Use the Improvement Phenomenon

This powerful and popular mathematical business tool can often be built info ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

The Future of the Corporate Planner

Breakthroughs in technology and the often overpowering complexity of the corp...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

The Japanese Worker

Finns planning branch operations in the Orient should know that the skilled J...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

Recession or Expansion in 1961?--A Joint Forecast of the Business Outlook as Seen by 23 Experts

Prediction for 61: The recession is on its way out. Recovery should occur bef...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

Management Ideology: Myth and Reality

When there is strain on the management role, ideology serves as a "reduction ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 2 | Winter 1961

What the Landrum-Griffin-Kennedy Bill Really Means to Labor and Management

The Landrum-Griffin-Kennedy bill was the climax of two years of effort to mak...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

Is Technology Degrading Research?

After a long period of observation, during which author have been a researche...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

The Proper Administration of Scientific Research

To the general public, a research scientist is an awesome fellow dressed in a...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

Management and the Creative Scientist

The creative scientist views management in a manner which author believes is ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

Capital Budget Formulae

Evaluation of the profitability of any investment rests on many factors the b...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

LRP for International Operations

This article has outlined three major areas in which major policy and organiz...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

The Development of Personnel Administration in Western Europe

European management faces many serious problems in making the most of manpowe...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

A Longer Look at the Sixties

The decade of the nineteen sixties has been ushered in with an unprecedented ...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

Tax Allocation and Investment Decisions

Basic difficulties exist in accounting for income taxes because the Revenue C...

Article Volume 3 Issue 1 | Fall 1960

The Outlook for Canadian Growth in the Early 1960’s

The article presents an outlook for Canadian growth in the early 1960s. Betwe...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

Why the British Shelved Compulsory Arbitration

The article focuses on why the Great Britain shelved compulsory arbitration. ...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

How to Forecast Defense Expenditures

The article focuses on forecasting defense expenditures. Economic forecasting...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

The Growing Concern Over Business Responsibility

The article focuses on the growing concern over business responsibility. Conc...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

How Aspiring Managers Promote Their Own Careers

The article presents tips on how aspiring managers can promote their own care...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

The Staggering Problems in Managing National Defense

The article focuses on the staggering problems in managing U.S. National Defe...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

Methods for Forecasting Consumer Demand for Specific Products

The article focuses on the methods for forecasting consumer demand for specif...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

Quantitative Methods in R&D Management

The article focuses on quantitative methods in research and development (R&D)...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

What Every Businessman Should Know About the Antitrust Laws

The article presents tips on what every businessman should know about the ant...

Article Volume 2 Issue 4 | Summer 1960

Can Business Afford To Ignore Social Responsibilities?

This article discusses social responsibility of business decisions. Social re...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

A Struggle To Reward Good Executives

This article focuses on incentive planning on the part of companies in order ...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

Stock Market Warning: Danger Ahead!

This article focuses on stock market run throughout the decade of the 1950s, ...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

Collective Bargaining and Inflation

This article discusses measures to curb inflation. The author is of the views...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

The Problem of Management Semantics

Students of management in other countries are profoundly grateful to the Unit...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

What Do We Mean by Research and Development?

This article examines the current confusion in R&D classification, the availa...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

The Role of the Assistant: A Modern Business Enigma

This article focuses on a logical differentiation between the staff, line ass...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

Checkpoints for Administering Capital Expenditures

The evaluation of capital expenditure projects in terms of financial return o...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

Wage-Productivity-Price Issue

This article clarifies the relationship between productivity, wages, and pric...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

A Groundrule for Foreign Business Operations: Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket!

This article discusses risk factors involved in getting setup a company outsi...

Article Volume 2 Issue 3 | Spring 1960

When Should a Company Manufacture Abroad?

The article presents a comparison of the U. S. and European wages, costs and ...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Industry's Role in Metropolitan Growth: A Public Management Problem

This article explains how industrial growth is related to expanding metropoli...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

The Causes of Management Conflict

The article discusses causes of management conflict. Some sources of conflict...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Internationalism: A New Concept for U.S. Business

The article presents information about Internationalism, a new concept for th...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Market Measurement in a Free Society

A discussion of methods by which consumer wants and buying patterns, variable...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Understanding Lease Financing

This paper seeks to provide a foundation for understanding leasing. It center...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

The Effects of Inflation on Life Insurance

This paper discusses effects of inflation on life insurance. The purpose of t...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Selecting the Research Program: A Top Management Function

The article cites nine practical steps to follow if one wants his company's r...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

A System for Measuring Office Work Performance

The article discusses a system for measuring office work performance. The sco...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

How to Evaluate Investment Proposals

The article presents a practical demonstration of how capital budgeting can b...

Article Volume 2 Issue 2 | Winter 1960

Accounting Reconsidered

This article presents a discussion on the present state of accounting in the ...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

The Changing Market for Tax-Exempt Bonds

The most important factor that has been affecting both the size and nature of...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

What is Appropriate Public Policy for Profit Renegotiation?

It has come to he assumed that some form of renegotiation is inevitable durin...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

Some Foundations of Organization Theory

The article focuses on various aspects of organizations and its structure. Th...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

Some Current Issues in Human Relations

Human relations today has its iconoclasts and believers, critics and supporte...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

What Do We Know About Using Long-Range Plans?

Despite the recent increase in the popularity of the term "long-range plannin...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

A Political Role for Business

The influence of "political climate" on business decisions is profound and fa...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

The Battle Over Proprietary Interests in Defense Contracts

Recent changes in the U.S. Armed Services Procurement Regulations have done m...

Article Volume 2 Issue 1 | Fall 1959

Unions, Anti-Trust Laws and Inflation

The article presents a critical look at some popular beliefs about the powers...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

The Strategy of Interdependent Decisions

The article is related to the strategy of interdependent decisions. It presen...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

Inflation and Public Utility Regulation

This study shows that returns to utility stockholders have generally kept pac...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

Trend Toward More Equal Distribution of Income

There is ample evidence that the distribution of income among low, moderate a...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

The Decline of Collective Bargaining on General Wage Increases

During the past decade, certain developments in wage bargaining have brought ...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

The Corporate Image in Public Relations

The purpose of this article is to examine certain problems which the public r...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

From Poor Richard To the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: A Literary Portrait of the Businessman

The article presents a literary portrait of a businessmen characterized as Po...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

EDP and the Disenchanted

Electronic data processing (EDP) has been evaluated through rumor and gossip,...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

Managerial Strategy Through Classification and Coding

Many of the advantages to be gained through automation are nullified by an un...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

Planning for Diversification through Merger

The major purpose of this article is to describe a method for developing spec...

Article Volume 1 Issue 4 | Summer 1959

Ernest Tener Weir: Iconoclast of Management

Ernest Tener Weir was born in 1875, and began his business career in 1890 whe...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Towards a Liberal Education for Business

Professional education for business is surely in ferment. Never before in its...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Some Uses of Model Prototypes in an Operations Research Study

Management planning problems are often so huge and unwieldy that it is necess...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Output Decisions Under a Guaranteed Annual Wage Plan

The problem of work scheduling and the control of labor hours occurs at two d...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

How to Stop Inflation

Among the salient economic problems confronting the society it is believed th...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Planning for Profits: A Four-Stage Method

This article is a report on some current practices in long-range profit plann...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Lessons from the Old World for America's City Builders

This article proposes basic changes in urban planning, municipal financing, a...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Reducing the Risks of Labor Arbitration

One of the basic issues which management faces in the administration of the g...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Management Development in 'Unstructured' Groups

The unstructured group, as it is currently being used for management developm...

Article Volume 1 Issue 3 | Spring 1959

Galbraith’s 'Affluent Society'