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Communication: panacea or pain in the neck?
(1978)
This article analyzes whether communication can solve all management problems. With the rapid technological developments in methods of communication, corporate managers have become more increasingly dependent on electronic ...
The responisiveness of Canadian imports to income and price movements
(Concordia University, 1977)
The key variables in international trade policy are imports and exports elasticities with respect to income and prices. Thus their estimation has drawn~particular attention in the post war period. Most of the studies ...
Similarities in the demand structures as determinants of Canadian international trade patterns: an empirical view
(Concordia University, 1976)
The testing of various explanations of international trade patterns always arouses a good share of academic interest. Unfortunately, due to imperfections embodied in the testing processes and due to imperfect data, the ...
Thw performance of demand models into the Canadian economy
(Concordia University, 1977)
This paper presents four consumer demand models. The Rotterdam, the Linear Expenditure, the Indirect Addilog and the Translogarithmic. In the first part their derivation and theoretical
properties are outlined. Afterwards ...
Morphogenesis and Management: Some Implications
(The World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics, 1978)
The main purpose of the paper will be to look at the influence of a change in perspective (namely, getting away from the input/output model) on social systems. in general, and management ones, more specifically. The ...
Stability properties of general systems
(Society for General Systems Research, 1973)
The system approach views any organized entity as a unity composed of interdependent parts
capable of sensitive and accurate interaction among themselves and with their environment. It is the mutual interaction among ...
The Impact of Perceived Community Prosperity on Job Satisfaction of Black and White Workers
(Academy of Management, 1976)
Data collected from black and white workers in three organizations indicate that workers living in communities with different perceived levels of prosperity have different job satisfaction. A relatively less affluent ...
Management of time , a New Responsibility for Executives
(Bureau of Business Research, 1971)
In the complex business environment that exists today, executive responsibility can no longer be allocated only to the limited traditional administrative resources: manpower, money, materials, and market behavior.
On the synthesis of general systems
(Society for General Systems Research, 1971)
In Part I, we extended the work of Ashby [1,2] to develop an analytical framework for determining
the relation betweén system size and system stability. It was established that, for linear
dynamic systems, as the number ...
Forecasting Methods for Managers
(Palgrave Macmillan Journals, 1974)
The forecasting techniques available have increased both in number and com-plexity, so now is the time for a book to help both OR workers and managers to choose the most appropriate technique. Spyros Makridakis and Steven ...