Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...: Business

Emphasizes key research on the topic and emerging trends. Considers globalization, new information technologies, as well as ethical and ecological issues.

Includes Economics of Sustainability as well as many other multi-discplinary issues

Contains several chapters on business ethics - corporate ethics, advertising, professional ethics, auditing, etc.

Covers finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems.

Covers topics of ethics in the business world.

Consists of detailed profiles newer industries, such as biometrics, risk management services, satellites, specialty tourism, and others.

Insights into nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization and highlights emerging industries within those economies.

Provides definitions and essays on financial terms, topics and formulas.

Contains 270 entries, written in case-study style, that highlight interesting details including how a product originated and was first marketed, how it developed commercially and how it fares today compared with its competitors and its own past history

Chronicles the history, development and current status of the world's most lucrative and high profile industries.

Focuses on the study of the behavior of people in the workplace.

This encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at major marketing campaigns in the 20th and 21st centuries. Each marketing campaign is described in terms of overview,historical context, target market, competition, marketing strategy, and outcome.

A continuation of Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns (1999 and 2007), this new volume expands its international coverage through its 100 essays covering some of the top global and emerging brands that appeared from 2010 to 2013.

Covers numerous topics in management theories and applications, such as aggregate planning, benchmarking, logistics, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, productivity measures, supply chain management, and much more.

This work is designed to serve as a core reference for anyone interested in the essentials of contemporary management theory. Drawing together a team of international scholars, it examines the global landscape of the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses to apply them

Provides entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Features current small business topics.

A comprehensive reference work bringing both sports management and sports marketing all together in one place.

This work incorporates information about a variety of white-collar crimes, and provides examples of persons, statutes, companies, and convictions. Each entry offers a thorough and thoughtful summary of the topic. Describes specific elements of corporate law and the various illegal acts to which they apply and brief biographical sketches, primarily focused on how they relate to the study of white-collar crime

Includes profiles of individuals and organizations considered to be the industry leaders and innovators and covers significant events, case studies and legal issues important to understanding the current e-commerce environment.

Designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.

Organizational, management, and sociological philosophy and theories that relate to the organization of human beings.

Readers will learn the best practices for helping people work smarter, improving hiring and training, making jobs safer, and providing a satisfying work environment.

Covers 50 key industries (and the companies and products therein) throughout the world (including but not limited to the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia).

Information about the concepts, institutions and organizations, events, and individuals that have shaped the history of business, labor, and economics from the origins of what later became the United States in an earlier age of globalization and the expansion of capitalism to the present.

Encyclopedia that covers a wide variety of macro and micro economic historical topics.

For students and researchers within social science programs who seek to better understand economics through a contemporary lens.

Services now constitute the largest share of GDP in most countries and provide the major source of employment in both developed and developing countries. The emergence of the service economy strengthened the importance of quality issues, which no longer are associated only with manufacturing industries but are increasingly applied in all service sectors. Thus, quality and services have emerged in parallel as closely interrelated fields.

Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health.

In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field's leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis.

This Handbook explores the foundations and methodologies in analyzing the important aspects of social media for organizations and consumers. It investigates critical areas concerning communities, culture, communication and content, and considers social media sales.

Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism