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A Dictionary of Business is a revised and expanded edition of A Concise Dictionary of Business, first published in 1990. In this new edition the number of entries has increased to over 6,000, compared to the 4,000 in the original edition.Moreover, this edition includes a number of illustrations. The original edition was prepared on the assumption that it would be of use to students of all kinds of business courses. ranging from GCSE Business Studies to degree and postgraduate business subjects, as well as to business people and their professional advisers (lawyers, bankers, accountants, managers. insurers, etc.). The feedback the publishers have received from this first edition is that the book has largely fulfilled its intended purposes, but that recent developments in industry as well as in unhersity and college business courses needed to be reflected in the new edition. This new edition, therefore, has paid special attention to the vocabulary used in business strategy, organizational behaviour, marketing. and human resource management. ln this context the vocabulary used reflects the organizational and business environmental changes and challenges that have occurred in the 1990s. It is expected that this emphasis in the revision will make it particularly useful for students of business courses at all levels. At the same time the entries for the terms commonly used in commerce have been updated and often expanded to take account of developments in the last five or six years. In addition, the vocabul aries associated with finance and with accounting practices have been expanded and updated. The book also includes many of the terms business people might be expected to know in the fields of the law and computing (especially with reference to the Internet). The extensive net Work of cross references in the original dictionary has been retained in this new edition. An asterisk (*) placed before a word in an entry indicates that this word can be looked up in the dictionary and will provide further explanation or clarification of the entry being read. However,not every word that has an entry in the dictionary has an asterisk placed before it when it is referred to in the text. Some entries simply refer the readers to another entry, indicating either that they are synonyms or that they are most conveniently explained in one of the dictionary''''s longer articles. Synonyms and abbreviations are usually placed within brackets immediately after the headword. J. P.A.I. 1996
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