Business Administration: Books

Business covers all significant intellectual, practical, and factual areas in the field of management. Business is the first-ever comprehensive resource on business and management, a remarkable compendium of lively essays, inspiring biographies, and impressive source materials.

This authoritative reference source comprehensively covers a burgeoning new field of academic study-leadership. Its scope is amazingly broad, reflecting the interdisciplinary applications of the subject. Approximately one third of the entries provide biographical information about men and women who have made significant contributions to the field. Other categories include case studies, leadership studies, followership, women and gender, personal characteristics of model leaders, leadership styles, and leadership theories.

The Handbook presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the strategic management field and will be an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. It frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field and helps to define and shape its current and future development.

This official Government manual provides a practical guide to assist owners and managers in meeting emerging global standards and expectations for an effective business ethics program. The manual is intended to be a practical resource for owners and managers, and endeavors to provide a comprehensive framework for designing and implementing business ethics programs by addressing multiple issues.

Global Business Etiquette is an indispensable resource for understanding the dynamics of cross-cultural communication, avoiding embarrassing (and costly) gaffes, and successfully navigating the subtleties of social interaction.

This guide presents hard-to-locate information about the top private companies in the US. Each of the basic profiles contains a brief overview of the company operations, lists of products, key competitors, the latest sales and employment figures, executives' names, headquarters addresses, and phone and fax numbers.

Hoover's Masterlist of US Companies features information regarding various companies.

This multi-volume work is the first major reference to bring together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAICS codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, principal divisions, principal operating units, principle competitors, and other significant milestones -- all peppered with statistics, dates and names of key players.

Guide to GAAS provides complete coverage of professional standards for audits, compilations, reviews, attestations, consulting, valuation services, quality control, and ethics.