| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Current Frequency |
Updated irregularly. |
| Description |
data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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Open textbook library
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Open Textbook Library.
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| Note |
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. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential concepts across a broad range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials -- and to their own lawyers."--Open Textbook Library website. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Local Note |
Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
| Subject |
Commercial law -- United States.
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Commercial law. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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| Note |
Title from Open Textbook Library website: Foundations of business law and legal environment |
| ISBN |
9781453343722 |
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1453343725 |
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