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Volume 41, Issue 1
1 January 1992
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Research Article| January 01 1992

Time in your hands Available to Purchase

Adrian Fairhurst
Adrian Fairhurst
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7190
Print ISSN: 0043-8022
© MCB UP Limited
1992
Work Study (1992) 41 (1): 6–9.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002659

Looks at time, as opposed to money, as being the paramount production variable of the 1990s, in light of the evolving information economy. Examines streamlining of time in the form of simple self‐reinforcing Just‐in‐time techniques. Offers a number of assertions concerning new technology and time. Discusses the management of information. Finally considers the future potential of time‐based production and management techniques.

Keywords:
Cost control, Information technology, Just‐in‐time, Time management, Time study
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