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(1981). Bank Annual Report Disclosure Adequacy Internationally. Accounting and Business Research: Vol. 11, No. 43, pp. 189-196.

An important measure of the quality of academic programs is the publications authored by an institution’s faculty members. Studies along these lines have been made for Economics and Business Administration in Canada but not so far for Management Science / Operations Research, a field in which approximately forty Canadian universities offer courses. Publications by authors at Canadian schools in fifteen major MS / OR journals duringthe 1964–79 period were used to rank Canadian universities. For the sixteen-year period the topfive schools were Toronto, Waterloo, UBC, Montreal, and Alberta. Since not all the schools offered MS / OR courses in 1964 nor were all the journals published duringthe whole period, two subperiods were used. The trend is generally upward, indicating more intensive publishing by Canadian authors, while more Journals allow for more extensive publishing.

Most of us have encountered problems in developing an effective quantitative analysis program for our business schools in the United States. We have often found managers very reluctant to adopt QA techniques; on the other hand, students, although not reluctant, lacked the necessary mathematical background. During the academic year 1970–71, the authors assisted in the development of a QA department in the business school of a developing nation which offers both resident coursework for graduate students and executives seminars for businessmen. Both the students and the executives had the necessary mathematical background for rapid understanding of QA techniques. The executives appeared eager to use QA in their business operations and the students were highly motivated toward the application of QA to business problems. Our purpose in this article is not to convince all the QA professors to teach in underdeveloped nations, but to furnish information which is likely to be useful to those who attempt to establish similar QA programs in other developing countries.