See LorangePeter and RichardF. Vancil“How to Design a Strategic Planning System”,Harvard Business Review, Sept.-Oct. 1976.
2.
Numerous attempts have been made in measuring the effectiveness of planning. However, conclusive results have not yet appeared. Neither has a universally acceptable effectiveness measurement methodology yet been developed. See, for instance, ThuneS. and HouseR., “Where Long-Range Planning Pays Off”,Business Horizons, August 1970; HaroldDavid M., “Long Range Planning and Organizational Performance: A Cross-Valuation Study”, Academy of Management Journal, March 1972; and AnsoffH. Igor, AvnerJ., BrandenburgR. G., PorterF. E. and RadosevichR., “Does Planning Pay? The Effect of Planning on Success of Acquisitions in American Firms”, Journal of Long Range Planning, Vol. 3 No. 2, Dec. 1971; and KargerD. W., “Integral Formal Long Range Planning and How to Do It”, Journal of Long Range Planning, Vol. 6, No. 4, Dec. 1973.
3.
For a discussion of the research methodology, see Gordonllene S., The Clinical Laboratory Industry: Strategy, Structure, Third Party Involvement and Their Link to Corporate Planning,Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1976; and SmithRichard G., Adaptive and Integrative Planning by Airlines, Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1976.
4.
For a more detailed account of the research reported in this section, see Gordonllene S., op. cit.
5.
See ChambersRobert W. and HefernanHenry G., a Statement Prepared for the Senate Health Subcommittee Hearings, Some Observations of The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1975,Washington, D.C., Georgetown University School of Medicine, September 9, 1975.
6.
For an in-depth consideration of these issues, please see Gordonllene S., op. cit.; or BaileyRichard M., CoxElizabeth C. and TierneyThomas M.Jr., The Economics of the Clinical Laboratory Industry,Berkeley, University of California, Institute of Business and Economic Research, April 1975.
