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Brings together the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to address a class of management issues of growing importance to the performance of companies. Provides conceptual frameworks for understanding issues in the environment of business and their development; strategy formulation; analysis of the news media; political analysis; the economics and politics of government intervention in markets (regulation, antitrust, and torts); the economics and politics of international trade; the political economy of countries; and ethical analysis and decision-making. For all business professionals, including managers looking to enhance their knowledge of an ever-changing, increasingly global field.
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Business and Its Environment (5th Edition).......2006-07-19
This book is an easy read. It has tons of useful information. I would recommend this book.
New Edition is Better.......2005-12-05
There is a new edition (the fifth) for this book, and it is better than the edition shown here. While avoiding a polemical view, Baron illustrates business ethical priciples with very poignant examples and stories. The case studies are very up to date and fun to read. More than that, though, the case studies can form a basis for classroom debate and discussion which not only brings the material to life but also promotes critical thinking and articulation among students.
I liked it very much, and recommend it highly.
The book for dilettante readers.......2002-01-21
The author provided some good examples demonstrating a picture of business and its environment. People who have exposed to Industrial Organization (or at least some levels of application of game theory) will get bored of all arguments without mentioning anything about its quantitative aspect.
The book for dilettante readers.......2002-01-21
The author provided some good examples to demonstrate some business's environments. The book is very readable. You will get bored if you have exposed to industrial organization or some applications of game theory.
Pretty Easy Reading.......1999-05-30
I've read a good chunk of this book during a B-school elective on non-market strategies, and found it imparted some valuable information. It's not very prescriptive if that's what you're looking for. But it made me feel like I got something out of the class despite an unstellar professor.
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BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT offers the most integrated approach to Legal Environment on the market - thoroughly exploring the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics illustrated by emphasizing applications (nearly 300 real-world applications throughout the text). In addition to a providing very thorough coverage of the law, the book consistently applies legal concepts within a business context through a wealth of pedagogical devices, demonstrating to students on nearly every page the clear relevance of the material to issues they will face in the real world. This text fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards.
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FAST SHIPPING!!!.......2007-09-10
My textbook was in a great condition and when they said fast shipping, they meant FAST SHIPPING! I recommend this seller to everyone because they are excellent in providing the best service that I have ever encounter on the website. Thanks!!!
Quite Comprehensive.......2006-03-17
This text offers great details, but I did not rate it as 5 stars because (1) when searching for content, it is difficult to see the key words in the text and (2) the case studies are well selected, but since they are inserted throughout the chapter, it is challenging to determine where the case ends and the author's content begins.
Overall, I would recommend the Jennings text and will keep a copy on my shelf.
Good enough.......2005-09-12
The book was damaged but it looks like its the post office job because the envelope used to cover the book was damaged as well. Besides that, the transaction was good
15 days to tell us they didn't have the book........2004-11-16
I ordered the book from them on Nov1. On Nov 15 I called and they told me they didn't have it. The money was returned by Amazon.
Overall, I recommend it........2001-09-04
This book was assigned to one of my MBA classes. The book itself was a good source of reference not only for my business law class but also to other two classes. The book's language is simple and easy to understand. The only flaw I found about this this book was that some cases were complex and I had to refer to actual law books and regulations. Overall, I recommend this book.
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW AND IT'S ENVIRONMENT, 4th Edition employs a comparative approach that emphasizes private law and facilitates effective managerial decision-making. The authors balance the legal challenges of doing business in developing and non-market-economy countries with the economic and political issues that commonly arise.
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It is an excellent book for international lawyers.......1998-09-29
This book contains a concise explanation of every day problems regarding foreign transactions, together with an explanation of the Common law system specially in United States, this book concentrates pertinent cases for each of the subjects explained in it.
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This book is specifically designed as a business oriented legal environment text. The basic philosophy behind the book allows for a look and feel of texts students are more familiar with (social science books) as opposed to an overly legal looking text.
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Satisfied.......2007-01-12
The item arrived much faster than I had expected; however it wasn't quite as new as I thought it would be. The book is still in excellent condition & the price was just right.
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The Occupational Environment: Its Evaluation and Control and Management
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This text is now the essential source for occupational health and safety specialist, managers, and students in the occupational and environmental health and safety field. Salvatore R. DiNardi, Ph.D., CIH, director of the Industrial Hygiene Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, working with experts in the field and with the involvement of AIHA technical committees, has designed an invaluable tool for practice and instruction. As the editor states, "This book continues a tradition started in 1914 by the Occupational Health Activity of the U.S. Public Health Service that continued to grow and develop, with National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health leadership, culminating in The Industrial Environment Its Evaluation and Control, 3rd Edition. This is the so-called "White Book" that very practicing occupational hygienist cherishes. . . . NIOSH graciously passed the gauntlet to AIHA to continue this 83-year tradition" with the publication of The Occupational Environment Its Evaluation and Control.
The foreword is written by Linda Rosenstock, M.D., MPH, director of NIOSH. In it she states that the new "White Book" examines the "hazards faced by contemporary workers and new approaches to prevention and control; it is intended as a source book for much of the knowledge needed to protect current and future workers from occupational illnesses and injuries."
According to Editor Salvatore DiNardi, "My strategy in designing this book is to emphasize a competency-based approach for each chapter. The outcome competencies, written in behavioral terms, can be measured via professional practice or by academic examination. These competencies were prepared using Bloom's Taxonomy and written in behavioral terms that can be evaluated by examination or practice. The competencies use specific verbs to describe the desired competency."
The Occupational Environment : Its Evaluation and Control, is not only an essential reference and teaching tool, but is also a road map to the occupational hygiene practice of the future. The book also provides an extensive glossary of terms, which are highlighted on their first usage in the text. An Instructors Guide, a multifaceted teaching tool complete with a CD-ROM containing all tables, charts, diagrams and relevant photos from the book, is also available from the publisher.
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Not a 'backpack' book.......2000-01-25
The content is excellent, and this book is a useful reference for anyone studying for the CIH exam. On the down side however, the publisher mistakingly elected to stuff two volumes worth of material into a 3-inch thick tome. The result is a poorly bound book that is not at all portable.
AMAZING TEXT.......1999-03-23
An amazing peice of work by a very intelligent man this book should become the standard that similiar works are based on.
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This book adds to the environmental politics and policy literature by conducting a comprehensive investigation of business influence in agenda building and environmental policymaking in the United States over time. As part of this investigation, the author presents an analysis of six cases in which private firms were involved in disputes concerning pollution control and natural resource management.
In addition to determining how much business interests influence environmental and natural resource policy, the book tests possible explanations for their level of success in shaping the government's agenda and policy. The study offers a general conceptual framework for analyzing the influence of corporate America over environmental policymaking. The research then explores how much firms have influenced Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and certain natural resource agencies, and the courts on environmental and natural issues since the beginning of the environmental movement in 1970. No other study has examined the ability of business to influence environmental policy in all three branches of government and in such detail.
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No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs
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An academic iconoclast explores the new "no-collar" workplace--the most recent and radical step in our quest to create the perfect job--and finds important lessons about the future of work in an uncertain economy.
No-Collar is the first book to place the much-feted New Economy workplace in the context of industrial history and the struggle to win a humane work environment. From Horatio Alger to the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Americans have extolled the virtues of hard work as a source of meaning and identity as well as livelihood. Drawing on his yearlong study of two Silicon Alley companies, as well as on interviews with a range of employees in other Internet industries, Andrew Ross offers a dramatic report on how the self-directed "no-collar" life stacks up against earlier work utopias.
Though urban knowledge workers enjoyed unprecedented autonomy and bargaining power, and their bohemian artisan style evoked a pre-industrial craft ethos, the volatile economy exposed even the rank-and-file to 24/7 schedules, emotional churning, and the kinds of pressure typically borne only by senior managers. With his characteristic mix of laser-sharp analysis and deft storytelling, Ross asks: How humane can, or should, a workplace be? In documenting the quixotic life of these neo-bohemian workplaces, No-Collar records a unique moment in American history and reveals what the landscape of work will look like for decades to come.
Customer Reviews:
Did the reader from Los Angeles read the book?.......2003-02-03
It doesn't appear that the reader from Los Angeles read this particular book; it seems he/she simply took this space as an opportunity to rant about Andrew Ross and other vaguely related issues. Ross's book is a nuanced look at the peculiar culture of the new media workplace, just as the golden years began to fade. Considering that Ross was not actually an employee of Razorfish, the main company in his case study, his perspective is surprisingly sensitive. After spending the dot-com golden years in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I was prepared to scoff at an outsider's interpretation of what the new media workplace was like, and how it felt to be an employee of that workplace. I was further prepared to roll my eyes at his choice of exploring New York's new media world rather than making the trip to the heart of it all, the San Francisco Bay Area. But in the end I was impressed: he explains his reasons for choosing New York, and they make sense. And he hits the nail on the head in terms of what was most odd and most interesting--as well as most consequential--about the feel-good, creative, ambitious new media work environment. The book grows significantly more "readable" after the first few chapters give way to more anecdotal scene-setting and conversations with Razorfish employees.
More Than Insightful.......2003-01-31
Ross is always worth reading, and this book might just be his best so far. If it's not, it's certainly the best hands-on analysis of what the New Economy was like for the grunts in the office, and for those us who do knowledge work. No one else took the time he did (over a year) to go inside companies and talk to employees on the daily grind, week in week out. I'm mostly convinced by his conclusions about the perils of the humane workplace, though there's lot more to this book than that. The best thing is that he puts it all in the larger context of historical patterns of work in corporate America. No one, that I know of, has done that. And it's a great read, too.
a band collar?.......2003-01-30
An entertaining and informative read about a time that will be remembered right along side tulip mania. No Collar differs from many business books because it gives valuable insights through the use of the powerful medium of story telling. The writer spent a good deal of time inside the company he focuses on and gives a compelling first hand account.
The lessons and ideas to be learned from this book are not spelled out like in many management books. The reader must read between the lines and come to his/her own conclusions.
One essential lesson to be learned from this account of a company during the inernet explosion and subsequent implosion is the necessity of corporate values and a vision.(built to last) While there is nothing wrong with striving to construct a workplace utopia, clear goals and direction are essential for any company. These ideas are not mutually exclusive from optimum working conditions and do not have to come at the expense of creativity.
My G-g-g-eneration.......2003-01-24
"Cheeky writing style" or whiny Oedipal subject? Ross is always looking for the great white parent to blame for our cultural and sociological problems, it's lazy criticism and politically counterproductive. Instead of becoming an activist or making a radical break from the institutions he claims to condemn, Ross installs himself in academia and proceeds to deliver bite after toothless bite to the hand that feeds him.
While I agree that corporate culture had become more unfair and more corrupt in the past generation, shuttling between the NYU campus and the hyperdesigned offices of Razorfish is hardly an effective way to bring attention a grossly unfair system. Why instead doesn't the author engage in a truly difficult critical task: taking a long look in the mirror.
It's trite for Ross to trot out the oldsters' usual rant of "The Kids Are All Wrong." It's Ross and the millions and millions of other aging Baby Boomers who need to answer the difficult questions, not a bunch of twenty two year old Web designers in Manhattan. I would argue that my "naive" generation, the one responsible for the so-called "digital revolution" understands the risk of independence (including the risk of entering a new industry and the risk of being an entrepereneur) and therefore has a better understanding of liberalism in its classic sense.
Why doesn't Ross ask himself why his generation is responsible for the Left's current state of exhausted complacency? Baby Boomers now comprise the bulk of the academic Left. Writing about youth and the digital industry may make it easier to sell a book, but it's much more troubling to me that the generation that came of age during Vietnam and the last truly popular liberal movements now likes to finger point at the prior and succeeding generations from the comfort of the faculty lounge. Why is that the pointing finger never seems to land on oneself? Baby Boomers have the numbers and the rhetoric. Where's the will? I guess things aren't quite as pressing when you're not expecting a draft registration form in the mailbox....
Great Read.......2002-12-29
Great read. The author elucidates not only an industry but an age. The 1990s were exceptional and this book discusses several aspects of what contributed to that decade. He delves into labor issues, management styles, the informal workplace, real estate, artists-workers, and more. Ross also gives a peak inside two companies and provides a range of personalities from those workplaces. And, the intelligent yet cheeky writing style is worthy of note.
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The perfect way to prepare for exams, this Study Guide for BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT was written under guidance of the author of the textbook and makes studying efficient and easy. It includes chapter outlines, key terms, and matching, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions.
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A searing indictment of corporate management in the roaring '90s which has shattered the future of the white-collar worker. If you look at the stock market, or at the corporate bottom line, it seems the best of times. But look into the lives of average middle managers, and we are living in the worst of times. Media attention has focused either on the horrors of massive layoffs or on episodic explosions of corporate violence. But for those millions of Americans who have neither been laid off nor "gone postal," life at the office has become a corporate nightmare: seven-day-a-week work loads; reduced salaries, pensions, or benefits; virtual enslavement to technology; and a pervasive fear about job security. What has happened to the American dream? With facts, figures, and trenchant case histories, Jill Fraser chronicles this catastrophic sea change in industry after industry: telecommunications, the media, banking, information technology, Wall Street. Her book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of the American economy . . . or worried about his or her own job.
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The triumph of economic power over individual independence.......2007-04-03
Ms. Fraser chronicles many real-life Dilbertesque stories of overbearing employer demands based on the insecurity of white collar employees.
The book does not say much about the reasons for this profound change in American society.
Traditional American freedoms rested on a bedrock of economic independence: family farms and businesses, economic growth that makes employers eager to attract and reward good performers, and low entry barriers for individuals to many businesses. As these protections have eroded, American employees are increasingly hostage to unlimited demands of overwork and conformity because of the uncertainty that they can find alternative employment on equal or better terms.
Disturbing and Informative!.......2006-10-03
I found this book to be very insightful but also very disturbing as I'll soon be graduating from college and will surely encounter some of the topics Fraser discusses in her book. I think the biggest lesson I've gotten out of this book and all the other "business" books is to minimize your expenses and save whenever possible because you never know what is going to happen amidst your 40+ year working career.
Specific to this book, I connected most with chapter 8's discussion on downsizing and layoffs from mergers etc. As a kid I watched my father nearly drive himself insane with stress from three mergers Public Service of Colorado, New Century Engergies and Xcel Energy engaged in. I remember it being a frightening time as a kid, but can only imagine what it felt like from the perspective of having to provide for a family.
Overall, great book but quite depressing we live in such a society.
Thanks for writing the book.
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Thorough description with little diagnosis.......2006-06-02
Jill Fraser sympathizes: Cubes suck. Hours are long. Disruptions all through the day. Stupid teamwork seminars. Coworkers remain annoying. Raise is tiny and stock is small although you can read of the millions more your CEO got this year than last, even though your company's performance worsened. Welcome to modern corporate America.
If you've been on an island, this book will be an excellent way for you to catch up on what's going on. It is thorough and readable. It is also largely superfluous if you haven't been on that island.
Fraser's arguments that the sweatshop tactics aren't effective are not that compelling (although I agree with her). There does seem to be a frenzy brought on by sales type executives who want to see everyone revved up. But that's just my opinion. Fraser's opinion has more to it but not enough to wow me.
She devotes less than 3 pages to the final section "Is Improvement In Sight?" I'd wished she'd spent 3 opening pages on how everything sucked at work and then the remaining 226 pages to "Is Improvment In Sight?". Even if she found little or even nothing, I'd have appreciated her sense of where it was useful to spend her time.
Good Analysis, Weak (and Dated) Solutions.......2003-05-03
Fraser hits the nail on the head with her hard-hitting stories and analysis of the current state of "corporate America." Hard-working employees are not reaping the rewards they really earn, and create wealth without getting any in return. What employees do get is less time off, longer workdays, more broken homes, more job insecurity, and less satisfaction out of life -- and most corporate executives are just fine with harming the ones they depend upon as long as it's profitable.
While Fraser accurately diagnoses the problems of overwork, she offers little in the way of a viable solution aside from "pick up your things and leave", especially in the current weak economy.
If you want some solutions, this book is not what you're looking for. If you do want some great writing about quality of life issues that affect all of us, especially in the corporate environment, this book is insightful and thought-provoking.
Compelling, Thought-Provoking, Unsettling.......2002-12-02
The author of this book is a professional journalist, with experience covering business for the New York Times, The New York Observer, and Forbes. She's served as an editor for Inc. Magazine and Bloomberg Personal Finance. She knows how to write in a style that grabs and holds a reader's attention. I went straight through cover-to-cover with this book, turning pages and turning down pages.
After several years of research, this book was assembled to tell the story of the nightmare that has been the life of the white collar worker in America in recent decades. Using an enticing mixture of facts and figures and real-life stories collected from people in the trenches, Fraser documents a story that cries for exposure. White collar employees from large companies will recognize-painfully-the picture that's painted, with personal histories and company names and practices illuminating the text. Page after page reveals the details of an embarrassingly destructive period in our country's corporate history. Sadly, the story continues, with complications and far-reaching implications, far beyond what's presented in White Collar Sweatshop.
You'll experience a wide range of emotions as you move through this factual report. Those emotions will range from pity to sympathy, from empathy to rage. Using the internet, Fraser found a wide range of people to open their hearts, share their experiences, and expose the questionable, unfeeling, almost inhumane acts of corporate executives. You'll read about people who invested their lives, at the expense of their families and themselves, to help build companies that later chewed them up and spit them out.
The research for this book was conducted during the late 1990s and into 2000. These were the years of the hot economy where opportunities to change jobs were plentiful. Many of the people who worked for large corporations, where this book is centered, did not leave for greener pastures; they were trapped in a never-ending cycle of working, working, working for companies-emotional and professional handcuffs that held them in a no-alternatives, no-win rut.
Since this book was written, the economy has shifted. During the slowdown of 2000-2002, employers became even more ruthless. With fewer jobs to jump to, workers had their escape routes blocked. The current reality is probably even worse than the deterioration described in Fraser's documentary. As the economy picks up, we'll see some cataclysmic changes in the relationship between employers and employees. The historical period recorded in this book will be a foundation for a major upheaval.
To understand what's coming, read this book to understand what's happened. Special note to senior corporate executives: If you want to attract, inspire, and optimize top talent, read this book to comprehend how your employees feel. Even if you're not the size of the major companies cited in the case histories, know that your future or even current employees-directly or indirectly-are influenced by the experiences described.
This book will be a catalyst for change if corporate leaders apply the knowledge they'll gain to assure that sweatshop practices are terminated.
Extra benefits: strong notes section with a number of valuable book references, as well as a comprehensive index.
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Business In Context: An Introduction to Business and its Environment (Business in Context)
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Business in Context provides an introduction to the key activities of business placed within a managerial, organizational and environmental context. Offering a dynamic and contemporary global perspective on business, key issues are debated and supported by practical cases from well-known international companies. The latest edition of David Needle's successful text has been thoroughly revised and rewritten with increased emphasis on globalization, updated and additional cases, and web support material for students and lecturers.
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