Information on management (1995)
Journal Article
Burke, M. (1995). Information on management. Management Decision, 33(5), 29-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003900

There have been many developments in recent years concerning the theory and practice of management. Keeping up to date in this area is vital to the busy manager – new areas such as innovation, creativity and empowerment in particular have developed i... Read More about Information on management.

Sources of UK business information (1995)
Journal Article
Burke, M. (1995). Sources of UK business information. Management Decision, 33(5), 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003901

Endeavours to guide managers through the maze of business information. Does not pretend to be a survey of all existing business literature, but provides pointers in three key areas – that of business directories including Internet sources, market inf... Read More about Sources of UK business information.

Can models fitted to small data samples lead to maintenance policies with near-optimum cost? (1995)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Scarf, P. (1995). Can models fitted to small data samples lead to maintenance policies with near-optimum cost?. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 6(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/6.1.3

In a general context of maintenance modelling, the excess cost of operating at the
estimated optimum value of some decision variable (as opposed to the true unknown
optimum) is related to the sample size of the dataset available for modelling. Alth... Read More about Can models fitted to small data samples lead to maintenance policies with near-optimum cost?.