Business (its Legal, Ethical, And Global Environment)

By (author) Jennings Marianne
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Emphasizes real-world applications and encourages students to develop their critical thinking skills.
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Comprehensive and practical, BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, 10TH EDITION emphasizes real-world applications and encourages critical thinking skills. While exploring the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics in the text, readers apply the concepts to more than 200 real-world situations and a wealth of learning features, while heightening their own sense of morality. BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, 10TH EDITION effectively illustrates how law and ethics apply to issues in the workplace, and is an excellent resource for future business managers.
Table of contents
PART I: BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND JUDICIAL ENVIRONMENT. 1. Introduction to Law. 2. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. 3. The Judicial System. 4. Managing Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation Strategies. PART II: BUSINESS: ITS REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT. 5. Business and the Constitution. 6. Administrative Law. 7. International Law. 8. Business Crime. 9. Business Torts. 10. Cyberlaw, Social Media, and Privacy. 11. Environmental Regulation and Sustainability. PART III: BUSINESS SALES, CONTRACTS, AND COMPETITION. 12. Contracts and Sales: Introduction and Formation. 13. Contracts: Performance, Remedies, and Rights. 14. Sales: Product Advertising and Liability. 15. Products: Business Intellectual Property. 16. Business Competition: Antitrust. PART IV: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE. 17. Management of Employee Conduct: Agency. 18. Governance and Structure: Forms of Doing Business. 19. Governance and Regulation: Securities Law. 20. Management: Employee Welfare. 21. Management: Employment Discrimination. Appendices. A. The United States Constitution. B. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Excerpts). C. The Uniform Commercial Code (Excerpts). D. Dodd-Frank (Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act) (Excerpts). E. The Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Excerpts). F. Sarbanes-Oxley Key Provisions. G. The Copyright Act (as Amended) (Excerpts). H. Title VII and the Civil Rights Act (Employment Provisions) (Excerpts). I. The Americans with Disabilities Act (Excerpts).
Biographical note
Professor Marianne Jennings, J.D. served as a professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (ASU) for almost four decades. She has been an emeritus professor since 2015. In addition to serving as an associate dean and director of the Executive MBA program, she functioned as director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU for six years. She continues to teach graduate courses in business ethics and ethical culture at ASU and other colleges around the country. She is an instructor and mentor for Wiley’s CPAExcel review course. Professor Jennings has written hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals. Emerald Management Review named her article, Ethics and Investment Management," one of the top 50 articles in 2005. She was also named a Top 100 Thought Leader by Trust Across America and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. Professor Jennings is a contributing editor for Ethikos and the Real Estate Law Journal. She has six textbooks and monographs in circulation, including BUSINESS ETHICS and REAL ESTATE LAW in addition to BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. Her SEVEN SIGNS OF ETHICAL COLLAPSE is used as an audit tool and a primer on corporate culture."