A Guide to Business and Management: Reference Works

Offers over 300 articles on accounting, economics, finance, information systems, ethics, management, and marketing, with a U.S. focus.

Over 300 short essays on topics ranging from morale and mentoring to consumer behavior and performance appraisal.

A compilation of articles on topics that document the current state of knowledge in the field, with particular attention to developments since 1960. Articles, in alphabetical arrangement, address topics relating to money and finance, labor, family and gender, political ideologies, development, theoretical schools, and methodology.

Offers short articles on places, people, historical events, and topics such as barter, bribery, and tariffs as well as goods such as salt, oil, and cotton.

Covers topics in public administration such as regional development, emergency management, budget reform, cost of living adjustments, and more. This work, with its global scope and interdisciplinary coverage, provides broad perspectives. It also includes coverage of principles, theories, legal concepts, and management topics as well as definitions of terms-such as groupthink and muddling through-used in the field of public policy.

A scholarly and thorough 8-volume encyclopedia that defines and explores the meaning of terms and concepts in economics.

Covers such topics as antitrust, cartels, contracts, civil procedure, theories of economics with legal import, taxation, securities regulation, property rights, and so on, in depth. Each article is followed by a bibliography which includes, when relevant, cases and statutes.

Defines financial terms and provides detailed discussions of concepts related to monetary economics, finance, and banking.

Offers nearly 900 essays on issues in the field, from multiple perspectives including interdisciplinary approaches and global coverage. Entries cover broad topics such as "property rights" and "social mobility," significant figures, countries, industries, and technical terms.