Book Description
This highly effective text provides superior legal, ethical, and regulatory coverage while fully integrating practical business practices for tomorrow's business managers. Legal topics are explored and explained through real-world business examples (over 300 references to business are made in the text). In addition to a solid foundation in the law, students learn valuable legal and ethical reasoning skills through a variety of critical thinking exercises. Students receive -- and appreciate -- practical advice on when it is necessary to call a lawyer, how best to use legal aid services and how to avoid legal trouble in the first place. This text fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards.
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Provides superior legal, ethical, and regulatory coverage while fully integrating practical business practices for tomorrow's business managers. An integrated approach to teaching law and ethics in business. CD-ROM included.
About the Author
Marianne M. Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her J.D. from Brigham Young University. She is a Professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the Department of Supply Chain Management, College of Business at Arizona State University. She has been named professor of the year in the College of Business three times and was the recipient of a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award. She joined the faculty at ASU in 1977 as an assistant professor. Professor Jennings was promoted to associate professor in 1980 and to full professor in 1983. She has worked with the Federal Public Defender and U.S. Attorney in Nevada and has served as a consultant to many law firms, businesses, and professional groups. She is the author of more than 130 articles in academic, professional, and trade journals and 6 textbooks and monographs in circulation. Her biweekly column for the Arizona Republic is nationally syndicated, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Professor Jennings is a legal commentator for National Public Radio. She has conducted more than 200 workshops and seminars, in the areas of business, personal and professional ethics, legal ethics, real estate, credit management, legal issues for academic administrators, law for the CPA, and legal and political strategic planning. Professor Jennings is a member of the Arizona bar.
Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment with InfoTrac FROM THE PUBLISHER
This highly effective text provides superior legal, ethical, and regulatory coverage while fully integrating practical business practices for tomorrow's business managers. Legal topics are explored and explained through real-world business examples (over 300 references to business are made in the text). In addition to a solid foundation in the law, students learn valuable legal and ethical reasoning skills through a variety of critical thinking exercises. Students receive -- and appreciate -- practical advice on when it is necessary to call a lawyer, how best to use legal aid services and how to avoid legal trouble in the first place. This text fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards.
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New edition of a text that provides insight into how business strategy and the legal environment are related and are essential components of each other. The 21 chapters discuss law, business ethics and the judicial system, as well as litigation and alternative dispute resolution; the regulatory environment of business; legal and ethical issues surrounding competition and sales; the contractual and regulatory aspects of employer and employee relationships; and the advantages and disadvantages of various business organizations and the regulation of the capital markets. New material includes a chapter on cyberlaw, new examples and ideas on the application of ethics to business decision making, and business strategy applications. The included CD-ROM contains business strategy applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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