Business: Handbooks

Now students, instructors, and professionals everywhere can find clear, authoritative, explanations of more than 6,000 key business terms.

This perennial favorite beginner’s guide to reading and understanding financial reports has been updated. It’s intended for investors, lenders, business leaders, analysts, and managers who want to read, analyze, and interpret financial accounting reports. Designed specifically for non-specialists, this reader-friendly resource covers the fundamentals of financial reporting in jargon-free English.

Tens of thousands of arts groups, educators, social service agencies, environmental groups and others have used this bestselling book to form their California nonprofit. Your group can, too. Obtaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is a lot easier now with the IRS Form 1023-EZ streamlined application. Use this book to form your California nonprofit corporation and obtain your federal and state tax exemptions through step-by-step instructions.

The forms you need to protect your family, your assets and yourself. 101 Law Forms for Personal Use gives you all the forms you'll need with step-by-step instructions to cover the legal issues you're most likely to face every day, such as bills of sale for buying and selling personal property, promissory notes for lending and borrowing money, a basic will form and general power of attorney form, contracts for in-home child care and more.

This book explores the history of African American business, providing an inspiring image of the economic power of black people throughout their existence in the United States. It continues the historical account of developments in the African American business community and its leaders, describing the period from 18th-century America to the present day

Provides of over 1,300 individual definitions, chapters, appendices. Comprehensive articles about theory and applied finance.

This Encyclopedia offers students and scholars access to information about the concepts, institutions/organizations, events, and individuals that have shaped the history of economics, business, and labor from the origins of what became the United States in an earlier age of globalization and the expansion of capitalism to the present.

Why do consumers make the purchases they do, and which ones make them truly happy? Why are consumers willing to spend huge sums of money to appear high status? This handbook addresses these key questions and many more. It provides a comprehensive overview of consumer psychology, examining cutting-edge research at the individual, interpersonal, and societal levels. Leading scholars summarize past and current findings and consider future lines of inquiry to deepen our understanding of the psychology behind consumers' decision making, their interactions with other consumers, and the effects of societal factors on consumption.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management has nearly 550 articles by international scholars and attempts a comprehensive overview of the field, covering both the theoretical and more empirically/practitioner oriented side of the discipline.

Use this book to learn how to run a company with a focus on continuous improvement. It gives a brief history of the evolution of lean concepts, with a focus on lean accounting. This book guides the successful implementation and sustenance of lean and kaizen tools. The book addresses strategy and challenges for successful and sustainable implementation of a lean production system, daily management system and lean accounting system.

"The Marketing Scales Handbooks are the longest-running series that provide reviews of multi-item measures used in scholarly studies of consumer behavior. This volume picks up where Volume 7 ended and has reviews of 392 new scales that were reported in top marketing journal articles published in 2012 and 2013. Each review has information about a scale's source, its psychometric quality, who has used it, and the questions/statements that compose the measure. The bulk of the scales in Volume 8 have to do with topics typical to the series such as brands, advertising, shopping, emotion, e-commerce, and health. Other topics in this volume were less covered in previous volumes and have to do with environmental issues (recycling and green products), word-of-mouth activity, international commerce issues (fair trade and off-shoring), and game-playing.The book is a valuable resource to researchers in a variety of fields who want reliable measures for use in their studies of consumers or similar types of participants such as viewers, clients, patients, or citizens. Instead of using simplistic measures of dubious quality or, at the other extreme, having to build and refine measures from scratch, researchers can use the book's contents to learn from the experts who have already vetted the quality of the measures. By using better scales, accuracy is increased and should improve the decisions based upon the results."

History of business and economics in Asia

The book presents the foundations of organizing and managing diversities, offers multidisciplinary, intersectional and critical analyses on key issues, and opens up fresh perspectives in order to advance the diversity debate. It also inspires new debates on diversity by encouraging scholars to broaden their research agendas and assists students and scholars to increase their understanding of the field and its current discussions. The contributors are a team of leading diversity scholars from all over the world.

This volume approaches the banking and financial world from four distinct but interrelated angles: financial institutions, financial markets, financial regulation, and financial crises.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. It is about the evolution of business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment.

The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation. The corporation is one of the most significant, if contested, innovations in human history, and the direction and effectiveness of corporate law, corporate governance, and corporate performance are being challenged as never before.

This item provides a concise and straightforward introduction to research methods and how research can be applied in real business situations.

The 94 articles of this six-volume set have been carefully selected to capture the methodological variations in business and management research and to highlight the important philosophical assumptions that underpin these variances.