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, resources and ideas for the design and implementation of price and capacity management tools is provided in the context of … private club management. The use of contribution‐based yield statistics to monitor the performance of price and capacity …
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This research examines the perceived problems with numerical skills applied to subject areas such as operations management and finance. Research has previously shown that a fear of the use of numbers can emanate from the under‐graduates’ secondary schooling and so hamper their further...
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Goal programming is an extension of linear programming. Suggests that, although linear programming is used widely in decision‐making processes, it has a major limitation which restricts the users of the technique to narrowing their problems to a single objective function. Goal programming was...
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In today’s fast‐paced and ever‐changing audit environment, an improved quality of the internal audit function is essential to the success of internal auditors. Suggests total quality management (TQM) as a means of achieving continuous quality improvements in internal audit functions....
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Purpose – The ability to make good decisions is the defining attribute of a high performance organization. The challenge is to ensure that good decision‐making practices permeate the entire organization. As organizations grow, employees make decisions in an increasingly complex, ambiguous,...
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Aims to delineate and explore the terrain of mainstream literature on strategic marketing management. Draws attention to the important role of judgement in almost everything that marketing managers do and for organizations. Considers the orthodox treatment of uncertainty and judgement in...
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Explores, using appropriate examples, the ways in which decision trees can be used by the manager to assist in the longitudinal decision‐making process. Since the mathematical concepts associated with decision trees are complex, managers can be reluctant to attempt to use decision tree models....
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Deals with the problem of timing the adoption of a new technology. This is a very important question of strategy which directly affects the firm’s competitive capability and whose analysis cannot be adequately faced by conventional capital budgeting techniques. Aims to provide a procedure for...
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Focuses on understanding accounting and economic concepts, relationships and factors important as a basis for economic decisions that create value. Provides the background essential for understanding the future papers in the series. Offers a review and develops perspectives useful to those with...
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Understanding capital structure and its practical implications is important to the professional manager regardless of functional area of expertise. The seminal work in the area of capital structure earned the researchers Nobel Prizes. In subsequent years, researchers have provided much...
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