• Fully updated new edition of an essential reference resource
• Contains explanations of over 250 terms and concepts, written by over 170 international contributors
• Reflects major developments in: knowledge management; globalization; ethics and governance related issues; new technologies; networks and alliances; and new organizational forms
• Provides fresh insights on performance management, leadership and organizational learning.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Information Systems has been updated with recent developments in the use of information systems in organizations and the information systems function that plans, implements, and operates the systems.

• Focuses new applications of information technology to organization systems, new processes enabled by the Internet, and new technologies applied by managers and their business implications;
  
• Provides coverage of technologies that are important to organization systems, including Radio Frequency...

This new edition of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Managerial Economics, has been expanded to include new entries alongside the standard terms and concepts in managerial economics.

• Features new entries on the internet, (lock-in, network externalities);
  
• Explores the European Union and its implications for competition policy and merger policy;
  
• Analyses the Microsoft antitrust case, and market microstructure;
  
• Provides a reliable, comprehensive and valuable resource for business practitioners, students,...

• This new edition contains over 250 fully updated entries in operations management;
• All bibliographies have been significantly up-dated and extended;
• Features 93 new entries across a wide range of areas, including: service, strategy, technology and innovation;
• Expands on core entries such as the newsvendor model;
• Contains entries from 31 new, worldwide authors, featuring more than 50 international contributors in total.

This new volume in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management volume set: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, especially commissioned for the second edition from editors Michael A. Hitt and R. Duane Ireland, charts the key concepts and frameworks in the expanding field of Entrepreneurship.

• A brand new, state-of-the-art volume in the growing field of Entrepreneurship;
  
• Features 90 important entrepreneurship concepts written by 110 international contributors;
  
• Charts the key concepts and frameworks of the field,...

Fully updated, the second edition of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Finance presents new contributions to reflect the emergence of behavioral finance (loss aversion, the housemoney effect, and momentum, for example), advances in asset pricing and methods in finance such as the role of Threshold Autoregressive and Markov Switching models.

• Provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts covering the whole of the fast changing field of contemporary finance
• Includes new entries that reflect...

The new edition of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Strategic Management includes a new preface by the current editor, John McGee. He acknowledges the signal contribution of Derek Channon and outlines the key current trends in the field of strategic management.

• Fully updated new edition covers over 160 key terms and concepts in strategic management;


• Contains contributions from more than 55 international contributors;


• Gives more explicit attention to 'competitive strategy' and 'competitive advantage';
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The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations covering the whole of the fast changing field of management information systems.