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FOR these days, Management Abstracts, the first issue of a series of specialized publications dealing with the different aspects of management to be published by the British Institute of Management (London), seems rather a lavish production. It covers some two hundred British and Overseas publications dealing with current developments in management science, and the abstracts are classified under such headings as general management and organisation; works management ; personnel and welfare ; financial management ; distribution; supplies; transport; statistics ; public administration ; education and training. Management Abstracts will be issued monthly and is intended to cover, eventually, material published in any part of the world ; but on its present scale such cover can scarcely be obtained without very considerable expansion on the first two issues. The basis of selection of the abstracts is not apparent, although the more important articles published in Great Britain in recent months appear to be included. For the annual subscription of 30s. (or 3s. per copy) the business executive may, as it is claimed, save some time ; but the production is unlikely to give him much that he cannot readily obtain, and probably earlier, from an efficient firm's library. The publication also includes "Book Notes", which are brief and mainly descriptive. This section might perhaps be expanded with advantage and the length of the abstracts curtailed, particularly if the latter were made purely descriptive and not, as in these two issues, in part critical.
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Management Abstracts. Nature 162, 955 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162955b0
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