ABSTRACT
The initial efforts to resolve the terminological conflict present in the field of management resulted from a proposal forwarded by the League of Nations at the International Economic Conference of 1927. The closing of the International Management Institute did not mark the end of managerial efforts in the area of terminology. In the United States, the Academy of Management was inactive from 1942 to 1946. The Management Nomenclature Research Group of the Institute prepared for distribution recommended definitions of ninety-two management terms. The British Institute of Management is asked to examine existing terms and to publish their current meanings and to encourage standard usage whenever possible. The early nineteen-fifties saw the first widespread emergence of business dictionaries in the United States. In the first half of the nineteen-sixties, more and more practitioners and scholars began working upon the theoretical problem of management terminology. There have been a number of glossaries and dictionaries published in the field of management.
