Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management – serie

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in accounting.

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, and researchers;Includes over 240 entries written by an international team of experts in the field.

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, covering: 'creative destruction'; competitive dynamics; real options; social capital; corporate entrepreneurship; risk management; franchising; succession planning; location effects; spinoffs; and product innovation.

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 financeIncludes new entries that reflect developments and growth in areas such as behavioral finance, asset pricing, and the emergence of nonlinear econometric models;Brings together entries from an international team of more than 90 of the world's best known and respected finance scholars and teachers.

Contains contributions from over 120 world-renowned experts;Covers a wide range of topics in financial reporting, management accounting, auditing and social accounting;Focuses on the contribution of research to the analysis of existing accounting practices and to the development of new practices;Informs readers about different accounting topics and indicates how a variety of research perspectives can contribute to the debate over the future shape of accounting;Provides references to important sources in the academic and professional literature.

HANDBOOK OF DECISION MAKING This handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of research and theories on decision making in organizations at the strategic level of analysis. Chapters are authored by leading international scholars, with some illustrative case vignettes from practitioners. Each contributor was selected for his/her special knowledge of the field. The Handbook addresses key questions confronting the decision making research of the past and the present, offers critiques, and suggests future research directions. Topics covered emphasize the classic decision theory perspectives while also incorporating recent insights from the fields of strategic choice, risk & uncertainty, scenario planning and complexity theory, with a broad social science perspective on the disciplinary roots of decision theory in economics, politics, and social theory. This is a landmark reference volume for the field, offering scholars and practitioners: Comprehensive, but accessible, coverage of classic and recent developmentsChapters by established international expertsCase analyses illustrating practical consequences of theoriesGuide to new research directions and theory