The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management

Authorative and comprehensive yet concise and convenient, this is the definitive single volume reference guide to the management sciences. In neraly 900 entries totalling more than 700,000 words, it covers all the concepts, terminology and techniques of management theory and practice.

Compiled by an international team of Consulting Editors from eleven of the world's top business schools together with the Editors Cary L. Cooper of UMIST and Chris Argyris of Harvard, it provides definitions and analysis written by leading researchers at Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, MIT, Michigan, London Business School and over 300 other leading institutions.

Entries range between concise definitions of terms and longer essays reviewing central concepts in management. Throughout, the book combines academic rigour with clarity and accessibility.

For the student of business and management, the Concise Encyclopedia will be an essential vade-mecum for their studies; for the specialist, it offers insights from leading researchers; for the working manager it will be a one-stop guide to today's management theory, research and practice.

• Strategic Management
• Operations Management
• Marketing
• International Management
• Business Ethics
• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Managerial Economics
• Management Information Systems
• Accounting
• Finance

An extremely useful and penetrating reference. You can't read it as a book, but use it as an encyclopedia and you'll be happy.