The Capstone Encyclopedia of Business (Capstone Reference)

The business world has changed beyond all recognition in recent years. New skills, insights, tools, technologies and best practice have emerged. The Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business brings all of this progress together, distilling the facts and essential information into one single volume. It represents the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible guide to the modern business world available, providing a gateway to the state of the art in marketing, finance, strategy, leadership, people management and beyond.
The Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business is organized alphabetically into over 1,000 entries covering the whole spectrum of business and management including:
* business terms - concepts - thinkers - practitioners
* organizations - brands - companies.
Each entry provides a sharp, incisive overview of the subject and, crucially, points to how the ideas can be put into practice.
The Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business makes sense of the new world of business, embracing the best of the new and the most robust of the old.
* The first one-volume, accessibly-priced reference book for business in years.
* Kicks off this exciting new series and will anchor Capstone as the one stop shop for busy professionals.
* Key title in large promotion including web site and extract mailings.
* Internationally-recognized editorial board.
* Annual updates will occur making this a classic key title to keep on the shelves.

The Capstone Encyclopedia of Business advisory board, featuring some of the biggest names in current business thinking:

Julian Birkinshaw

Julian Birkinshaw is Tenured Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He is the author of five books, including Inventuring (2003) and Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way (2002). In 1998 the leading British management magazine Management Today profiled Julian Birkinshaw as one of six of the Next Generation of Management Gurus .

Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture

capital firm. His strategy consulting practice helps managers to identify, evaluate, and profit from

opportunities created by changing technology. Cohan has written several books including Value

Leadership: Seven Principles That Define CorporateValue in Any Economy (2003).

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove are the founders of Suntop Media. They write columns for The

Times and Chief Executive and are contributing editors to Strategy & Business. Their work appears

in leading business magazines throughout the world and their syndicated interview series is sold

to 20 countries. Their book credits include Firestarters! (2001) and Generation Entrepreneur (2000). They are the editors of the Financial Times Handbook of Management.

Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of International Management Development, Deputy Director of

the School of Management at Cranfield University. His books include the bestselling Essence of Leadership, Politics of Management, Working in Organisations and The Wealth Creators. His two most recent books are Geopolitics of Governance and Smart Sourcing:International Best Practice. He holds positions on the boards of a number of companies and edits the Journal of Management Development.

W. Chan Kim

W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy

and International Management at INSEAD Business School, France. Prior to joining INSEAD,

he was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School. He has served as a board member

as well as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations and has published numerous articles. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos and the winner of the Eldridge Haynes Prize.

Renée Mauborgne

Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management

at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Fellow of the World Economic Forum. She has served as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations in Europe, the US and Pacific Asia. She has published numerous articles on strategy and managing the multinational.

Georgina Peters

Georgina Peters is senior editor at Suntop Media. Her work appears in business publications around

the world including Business Life and Silver Kris, the Singapore Airlines in-flight magazine. She is

a contributor to the Financial Times Handbook of Management.

Jonas Ridderstråle

Jonas Ridderstråle works as an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership

at the Stockholm School of Economics and was recently recognized as Sweden s outstanding young academic of the year. He is an advisor, lecturer and consultant to a number of international corporations. His book Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance (co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström) is an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 25 languages.

Fons Trompenaars

In 1989 Fons founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international managemen