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The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management (ORE) is a distinctive enterprise that will both reflect and serve the business and management community. The field of business and management is vibrant, varied, and vital, and these attributes describe the ORE as well. It is akin to a start-up, with all the excitement that entails, under... taken by a publisher with a global reputation for publishing authoritative scholarship. The ORE will reflect and stimulate research by scholars, students, and practitioners. Like the study of business and management, it will draw on numerous disciplines and examines processes both within organizations and between them and their environments, broadly defined. It is guided by the recognition the business and management discipline faces, and must respond to, unprecedented challenges and possibilities characterized by increasing complexity, uncertainty, and volatility. Researchers and students of business and management encounter an explosion of information from a range of sources due to the information revolution, the globalization of business and education, and the expansion of influential stakeholders with multiple and often conflicting demands. Competition and volatility have increased dramatically, thereby increasing the importance of reliable resources like the ORE Business and Management. What makes the ORE Business and Management so helpful is that it will provide an integrated, comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference headquarters that is the first stop and jumping off point for researchers, students, and professionals needing trusted information and insight to the breadth and depth of the subject. Even though time horizons have collapsed and the short-term is often the focus, the ORE is inherently a long-term venture. It is an ever evolving project that follows an online continuous-publishing model that will over time map the field. It contains broad and interpretative essays; all linked together, helping readers build bridges by connecting ...Read More