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How far do individual leaders influence Organisation Development? Certainly there have been a number of people who through their ambition, vision and skill have had an enormous impact in building up business organizations. We shall look at the life and career of some of the most renowned leaders. To start the series Mike Owridsmith outlines the work of Andrew Carnegie.

In this the fourth issue of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal the theme of studying the life of influential entrepreneurs is continued. Mike Owridsmith and Andrew Kakabadse trace the life of Sir Alfred Jones, identifying the ambitions, skills, foresight and general vision that made him into the man he was.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.