Field Guide to Business Terms: A Glossary of Essential Tools and Concepts for Today's Manager (Harvard Business/Economist Reference)

Covers essential terms and concepts of business, together with a section on management trends in the 1990s

This management dictionary, first published in England last year by The Economist Books, Ltd., is the first of a series of inexpensive paperback business reference books issued jointly by these presses. It begins with an excellent, though brief, overview of issues and trends in management in the 1990s and is followed by a short, clearly written dictionary of about 850 management terms and concepts of use to practicing managers. The definitions generally do not betray their English origins and would be understandable to high schoolers and up. J.M. Rosenberg's Dictionary of Business & Management ( LJ 11/15/92) has almost eight times as many definitions, and the paperback version is somewhat cheaper. H. Johannesen and G.T. Page's International Dictionary of Management (Nichols Pub., 1990. 4th ed.) also has significantly more definitions, but it is only in hardcover and costs more tha either alternative. The Field Guide has a few unique terms, but libraries with either of the other two dictionaries will not need it. It is suitable for high school, small college, and all levels of public libraries.
- Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Tech. Coll. Lib., La Crosse
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