About this issue

SEVERAL PAPERS in this issue deal with major management techniques such as decision analysis, systems analysis, and an emerging management technology having to do with problem solving. A striking feature of the papers in this issue is that most of them are authored by people who are not in university groups. They are from laboratories and companies which are not usually the source of papers about management methodology snd theory. Perhaps this reflects an emerging trend toward moving the development and certainly the implementation of management “technologies” from academic to operating organizations.