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1 online resource : color illustrations. |
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Updated irregularly. |
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data file |
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polychrome |
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Open textbook library
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Open Textbook Library.
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This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. |
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"Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand in today’s highly regulated business environment."--Open Textbook Library. |
| Contents |
Introduction to law and legal systems -- Corporate social responsibility and business ethics -- Courts and the legal process -- Constitutional law and US commerce -- Administrative law -- Criminal law -- Introduction to tort law -- Introduction to contract law -- The agreement -- Real assent -- Consideration -- Legality -- Form and meaning -- Third-party rights -- Discharge of obligations -- Remedies -- Products liability -- Relationships between principal and agent -- Liability of principal and agent; termination of agency -- Partnerships: general characteristics and formation -- Partnership operation and termination -- Hybrid business forms -- Corporation: general characteristics and formation -- Legal aspects of corporate finance -- Corporate powers and management -- Securities regulation -- Corporate expansion, state and federal regulation of foreign corporations, and corporate dissolution -- Antitrust law -- Unfair trade practices and the Federal Trade Commission -- Employment law -- Labor-management relations -- International law. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Summary |
"Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand in today's highly regulated business environment. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style. After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, consumer credit transactions, bankruptcy, intellectual property, securities regulation, regulation of real estate, antitrust, unfair trade practices, employment law and labor relations. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy they will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders -- and to their own lawyers."--Open Textbook Library. |
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Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
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Commercial law -- United States.
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Commercial law. |
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United States. |
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Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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| ISBN |
9781453343272 |
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145334327X |
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