Professor Shackle’s ‘To Cope with Time’: a Discussion

B. J. Loasby

Chapter 5 in Firms, Organization and Labour, 1984, pp 80-83 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Professor F.R. Bradbury, who was my colleague at Stirling for fourteen years until his death in September 1981, and who had extensive experience of research management in the chemical industry, liked to emphasize that science is full of surprises. Indeed, to obtain a patent it is necessary to demonstrate that the discovery or invention would not have been obvious to someone skilled in the art. Within their own field of expertise, industrial researchers have learnt to expect the unexpected — though they can hardly foresee the form in which the unexpected will appear.

Keywords: Formal Planning; Management Control System; Multiple Scenario; Event Node; External Response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06663-6_5

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