The SAGE Library in Business and Management brings together reference collections containing the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in key areas of inquiry and niche research interests in business and management. Each multivolume set represents a cross-section of theessential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature. Each majorwork includes a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection, a discussion of the content within the context of the field and an overview ofthe discipline's past, present and likely future. This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with a programme or interest in business and management studies. Our world is replete with crises. The landmarks of the new millennium bear the names of unprecedented adversity: 9/11, the Madrid and London bombings, the Boxing Day Tsunami, SARS and avian flu, to name only a few. Crises are threats against the core values or life-sustaining functions of a social system and require urgent and immediate remedial action. Crises are 'inconceivable threats come true'.
- ISBN: 978-1-84787-088-9
- Editorial: Sage
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1248
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 3
- Idioma: Inglés