This special “Anbar Abstracts” issue of the European Business Review is split into six sections covering abstracts under the following headings: Top management issues; Marketing and distribution; Personnel and training; Information management and technology; Operations and production management; Accounting and finance.
As we approach the dawn of a new century, the temptation to try to predict the future increases. The forecasts of “futurologists” have often been spectacularly unsuccessful in the past. One-hundred years ago, Europe’s ruling classes were generally confident about what lay ahead. They largely failed to predict the two world wars, the depression, the spread of communism and the onset of the…