Concise ed., with updated versions of 65 articles, of: International encyclopedia of business and management / edited by Malcolm Warner. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Accounting -- Advertising strategy, international -- Auditing -- Banking -- Benchmarking -- Business economics -- Business ethics -- Business history -- Business strategies, east Asian -- Capital markets, regulation -- Consumer bahaviour -- Corporate governance -- Corporatism --Costing -- Creative accounting -- Decision making -- Downsizing -- Entrpreneurship -- Equal employment opportunities -- Financial statement analysis -- Futurology -- General management -- Globalization -- Guru concept -- Human resource management -- Industrial and labour relations -- Inflation accounting -- International business, future trends -- International business, legal dimensions of -- Inventory management, leadership, maintanace systems -- Management in Europe -- Management information systems -- Management in Japan -- Management in North America -- Managerial theories of the firm -- Marketing -- Markets -- Mergers, acquisitons and join ventures -- Multinational corporations, history of, -- Neo-classical economies -- Networks and organizations -- New product development -- Operations research -- Organization behaviour -- Organization culture -- Organization types -- Power -- Project management -- Public relations -- Purchasing -- Re-engineering -- Retailing -- Scheduling -- Small business strategy -- Strategy, concept of, -- Systems -- Technology strategy, international -- Time management -- Total quality management -- Women in management and business -- Work and leisure.