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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 ...
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 ...
A Survey of Time Series
(Longman Group Ltd, 1976)
This paper surveys time-series methods developed and used in the fields of statistics, engineering, operation
research and economics. It will describe each of the major methods now in existence and synthesize them into
an ...
The second law of systems
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1977)
This paper asserts that the Second Law of Thermodynamics (SLT) despite holding true in all laboratory tests heretofore conducted, cannot, by itself, explain the hierarchical universe. By examination of the existing evidence, ...
An Interactive Forecasting System
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1974-11)
Time sharing computer configurations have introduced a new dimension in applying statistical and mathematical models to sequential decision problems. When the outcome of one step in the process influences subsequent ...