Book review article: management lexicons and dictionaries

✍ Scribed by David Hussey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1086-1718
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1697(199908)8:5<303::aid-jsc440>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

Three management dictionary books were published in 1998, each very different, but all covering strategic management to a greater or lesser extent. In addition, the glossary of techniques for strategic analysis, which appeared in this journal (6.2, 1996), was included in one of the books of collected articles from the journal (Hussey, 1998). In 1997 the comprehensive, but in my opinion somewhat ¯awed, encyclopedic dictionary of strategic management was published (Channon, 1997), which I reviewed for the journal (7.1, 1998). All this activity suggests that the authors and publishers see a market in this type of publication.

Although these publications are new, they are by no means the pioneers