Monthly Archives: June 2009

A Preponderance of the Evidence

It is fairly well known that the field of business management can be susceptible to fads. Organizational scientists have studied the adoption of business approaches like management-by-objectives, total quality management (TQM), business process re-engineering, just-in-time manufacturing, scorecard methods, and others. … Continue reading

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Down to Business

The links between elaborate economic models and reality can be downright mysterious! In 1959 one economist described economic models this way: “Econometric theory is like an exquisitely balanced French recipe, spelling out precisely with how many turns to mix the … Continue reading

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