Managing managers: an early twentieth century service industry information system

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 288-296

  Mutch, Alistair ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brewing industry; Business history; Information systems; Management information systems; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986079057     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210420246     Document Type: Review

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