A Dictionary of Business and Management (5th edition)

Jonathan Law also edited the previous edition of this established Oxford dictionary, which first appeared in 1990 as A Concise Dictionary of Business. Subsequent editions, under the title A Dictionary of Business, appeared in 1996 and 2002, and the fourth edition published in 2006 (the contents of which are also available for free at www.encyclopedia.com) was accompanied by a further name change emphasising expanded coverage of the broader management discipline.

The fourth edition boasted coverage of 6,750 terms; the fifth edition claims 7,000. Additions include entries based on humour; for example the Dilbert Principle (“large corporations knowingly...