TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,H.Thomas TI - Relevance regained: from top-down control to bottom-up empowerment SN - 0-02-916555-5 U1 - 658 20 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - Industrial management KW - Data processing KW - Management information systems KW - Customer relations KW - Total quality management KW - Suggestion systems KW - Managerial accounting KW - Competition KW - Contabilidad de gestión KW - Industria KW - Organización N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index; Contents: Information, action, and business performance -- Remote-control management in the Dark Age of relevance lost -- Consequences of remote-control management -- Imperatives of competition--past and present -- Becoming responsive by building long-term customer relationships -- Becoming flexible by empowering workers to remove constraints -- Management information for competitive excellence -- Activity-based cost management : relevance lost déjà vu -- Putting an improvement process in place -- New frontiers for business education -- The information revolution revisited -- Appendix: Where to turn for help ER -