Unrecognised quality
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Litho Supplies is a distributor of printing consumibles which has seen a drop in its stock prices that exaggerates how tough trading conditions are. The company is acquiring businesses in mainland Europe and the United Kingdom, and has acquired stakes in Belgian and French distributors. Improvements in these countries could help to offset any problems in the UK. UK margins are improving. The company's full year profit is likely to rise to 8.4 million pounds sterling, which is a respectable performance given difficult trading conditions.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1998
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Choice of an information structure versus a production environment: a managerial control perspective
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A study investigated the optimality of the principal selecting another dimension of a managerial control environment as a substitute for information or vice versa. In particular, the analysis scrutinized the principal's trade off between benefits from selecting certain attributes of a production setting referred to as its specificity and the expenses of selecting an information system. One experimental finding is that the principal prefers the production environment to be task- rather than person-specific.
Publication Name: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0278-4254
Year: 1999
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