Management and Magic

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Armstrong J. Scott , “Forecasting with Econometric Methods: Folklore versus Fact,” Journal of Business, vol. 51, no. 4 (1978): 549–64.

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Tauber E. W. , “How Market Research Discourages Major Innovation,” Business Horizons (June 1979), pp. 22–26.

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Tauber , op. cit.

Gold Bela , “The Shaky Foundations of Capital Budgeting,” California Management Review, vol. 19, no. 2 (Winter 1976): 51–60.

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Gluckman , op. cit.

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Pascale Richard T. , “Zen and the Art of Management,” Harvard Business Review (March/April 1978), pp. 153–62.

Pascale Richard T. Athos Anthony G. , The Art of Japanese Management (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981).

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Mintzberg Henry , The Nature of Managerial Work (New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 191.

Perlmuter Monty , op. cit.

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Quinn J.B. , “Managing Strategic Change,” Sloan Management Review, vol. 21, no. 4 (Summer 1980): 3–29.

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