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THE number of societies and institutions dealing with the administrative or managerial side of industry is now very considerable and covers a wide and varied field in works management, costing, salesmanship, advertising, research, etc. That there is plenty of work and scope for organisations of this sort is evident enough, but there i& certainly some ground for supposing that their number may soon become excessive, and some at least may be unable to obtain sufficient financial support to keep going, especially since the subscription rates are necessarily rather high and correspondingly onerous to manufacturers and their executives in these difficult times. From its name, the Institute of Industrial Administration should be capable of covering the whole territory, but it has many rivals. It is to be hoped there is room for all, and that there will be no desperate struggle for survival. The Institute held its annual general meeting on December 12, and an increase in the subscription of corporate members from 3 guineas to 5 guineas was recommended. This is to be interpreted, we hope, as a measure of increased usefulness to members rather than as an expiring elutch for more funds. The papers presented at the 1932–33 session have just been published, on ‘Roneod’ sheets bound in paper covers (London: Institute of Industrial Administration, 1933. 58.). They are none the worse for this, and two of them deal in an effective manner with difficult problems of distribution, and another is on research in industry, by Mr. A. P. M. Fleming.
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Administration and Management in Industry. Nature 133, 95–96 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133095d0
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