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  • Black Water Rafting
    A successful New Zealand business is considering how it might address the possibility of future changes in its operating environment. This case can be used to highlight the importance of forward planning as it relates to the various stakeholders of a busin
  • Black Water Rafting (B)
    A successful New Zealand company offering float-through cave tours is concerned about increased competition and proposed changes to its operating environment. This case may be studied separately or as a follow up to the 1990 Black Water Rafting case, and
  • Blackwood & Sons
    The case outlines the structure of an Australian industrial marketing company and the problems of switching from a long and well-established supplier to a new company that offers better terms and conditions.
  • Bongiorno Financial Services Ltd
    In this case involving a listed Australian company, the bases outlined in the Company's 1988 Annual Report for preparing consolidated financial statements are reviewed along with the different accounting policies applied in its accounts in accounting for g
  • Brazil National Airlines
    An airline servicing the domestic market wishes to determine a customer profile in terms of age, sex, origin/ destination patterns, trip purpose, by whom the ticket was issued, etc., to enable it to devise more effective advertising campaigns. A procedure
  • Breeze Blocks
    A description of difficulties in the work undertaken, job satisfaction and in-terpersonal relationships are described for three organisational positions, `blue- collar', `white-collar' and managerial.
  • Brikworks Limited
    Discounted cash flow analysis of product introduction decision. May be used interactively with class as set assignment.
  • Brownell-Sakata Limited
    An electronic manufacturer wishes to develop a model for forecasting the number of households in Australia which use TV receivers. A Gompertz trend is suggested. The forecast will aid in estimating the demand for colour TV sets; colour TV transmissions are
  • Brunswick Crating Co Pty Limited
    This case examines a pricing and costing situation, in which only partial records are kept. The case requires evaluation of the present system, suggestions for improvement, and calculation of charge out rates.
  • Building the New Parliament House: An Opera House Revisited
    Organisational design as a policy issue continues to be characterised by prescriptions not well grounded in the limitations to which organisational structure can be altered. Management failure and bureaucratic regression in the face of high political and t