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RR 2016/114 Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (3rd edition) Editor in chief Cary L. Cooper Wiley Malden, MA and Oxford 2014 14 vols. ISBN 978 1 119 97251 8 (print); ISBN 978 1 118 78531 7 (online); £1,499 $2,400 Available online through Wiley Online Library at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118785317
Keywords Encyclopedias, Management
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2016-0072
The best managers seem to be able to not only focus on specifics and on the now but also step back and see the big picture: they are experts not only at the detail - the operational processes, the information systems, the team dynamics, the brand differentiation - but also at the strategic and global. The best managers are soundly grounded practitioners, pragmatic doers, yet also people who know the value of good research investment, can recognize the role of conceptual thinking, do not get fazed by numbers, see the future-proofing value of scenario planning and inspire their people with transformative ideas - not merely manage.
They anticipate change (and drive it), they grow the business, they interpret the market, they understand the ethics, they thrive on the knowledge of cultural difference and they try not to make the same mistakes twice. Successful management and business practice depends on experience, a tolerance of risk, personality, luck, opportunity, graft, access to wise advice and more than a little common sense. For this reason, perhaps, management is sometimes defined as common sense on stilts (accepting that common sense is rarely common).
The third edition of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management comes at an opportune time and then for anyone interested in contemporary management. The original (print) edition appeared in 1997, was paper-backed in 1999 and the second edition was published in 2005. Individual volumes of the second edition are still available in the trade. The third edition has been published as a 14-volume set, the final volume of which includes the general index (pp. 189-386) to the whole work. Individual volumes have their own index. New themes and topics and approaches have been introduced throughout, such as digital technology, regulatory mechanisms, innovation and new forms of global business.
The work is aimed at the academic and research library, above all serving an institution where management and business studies are taught at degree and research levels....