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Equip students with the legal knowledge and risk management techniques for global business management as MANAGERS AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS, 9E addresses legal, political, regulatory, and ethical dimensions of business. Students learn to identify opportunities, increase realizable value, deploy resources, and manage legal and business risk. This strategic approach details business’ global legal environment with a systems approach to law, business and society as well as legal considerations in corporate strategy.
Coverage reflects the latest developments, including Trump’s executive order travel bans, employment laws in the "gig" economy, the patentability of isolated gene sequences, and the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016. Students review global concerns, including the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation and a unitary patent in the EU.
- COVERAGE ADDRESSES EMERGING LEGAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS. Students examine employment laws for Uber drivers and others in the "gig" economy; the duties following recalls at Toyota, Takada, and General Motors; consumer fraud at Wells Fargo Bank; antitrust violations by institutions, such as Barclays whose trader posted online, "if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying"; international efforts to address climate change; combatting terrorism while preserving constitutional liberties; efforts to reshape the regulatory state by the Trump Administration and Congress’ and the courts’ checks and balances.
- ENGAGING MINDTAP® ONLINE CONTENT ENCOURAGES PERSONALIZED TEACHING. Learning Path highlights key objectives and your syllabus, while this customizable online course lets you to control what students see. Relevant readings, multimedia, and activities within the learning path intuitively guide students as they Prepare, Engage, Apply and Analyze business law content. Activities logically progress to elevate learning, promote critical-thinking skills and produce better outcomes. Analytics and reports provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement and completion rates.
- PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN REAL BUSINESS. Cutting-edge coverage teaches future managers how to use law and legal tools to create value while managing legal and business risk, how to attain core business objectives and how to effectively handle legal disputes. Students learn to identify and resolve legal issues before they become problems. By addressing legal and strategic issues embedded within today’s fast-moving environment and providing compelling examples that bring material to life, this book enhances legal astuteness.
- TREATMENT OF THE GLOBAL LEGAL ENVIRONMENT IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ON THE MARKET. Business law authority Constance E. Bagley offers thorough coverage of the most essential business law topics, such as agency, contracts, sales, torts, criminal law, antitrust, and employment law. The author also highlights specialized topics crucial to business managers, including intellectual property, lending transactions and bankruptcy, securities regulation and bans on insider trading, and environmental law.
- IN-DEPTH CASE TREATMENT TEACHES CRITICAL-THINKING SKILLS. Provided as summaries or presented in the actual language of the court, numerous cases in each chapter represent key court decisions that shape important business law concepts or present key legal conflicts that managers will address in their careers. Associated critical-thinking questions require students to analyze what they have read and to predict the decision's impact on future cases.
- "PERSPECTIVE BOXES" OFFER AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VIEW OF TODAY'S LAW. This edition clearly shows how history, politics, and economics affect the evolution of the law with intriguing "Perspective Boxes" throughout the text. Each box focuses on a historical, political, or economic perspective to help students become more aware of the interplay among these three areas and the law.
- "THE RESPONSIBLE MANAGER" AND "A MANAGER'S DILEMMA" SECTIONS INTEGRATE LAW, MANAGEMENT, AND ETHICS. These insightful features summarize each chapter from a managerial perspective and discuss the critical legal, risk management, and ethical issues that successful managers must consider to avoid costly, time-consuming litigation or regulatory fines. These management features offer useful on-the-job references for practicing business managers long after the course is complete.
1. Law, Value Creation, and Risk Management.
2. Ethics and the Law.
3. Sources of Law, Courts, and Dispute Resolution.
4. Constitutional Bases for Business Regulation.
5. Agency.
6. Administrative Law.
Unit II: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT.
7. Contracts.
8. Sales, Licensing, and E-Commerce.
9. Torts and Privacy Protection.
10. Product Liability.
11. Intellectual Property.
Unit III: HUMAN RESOURCES.
12. The Employment Agreement.
13. Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination.
Unit IV: THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT.
14. Criminal Law.
15. Environmental Law and Sustainability.
16. Antitrust.
17. Consumer Protection.
18. Real Property and Land Use.
Unit V: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, OWNERSHIP, AND CONTROL.
19. Forms of Business Organizations.
20. Directors, Officers, and Controlling Shareholders.
Unit VI: SECURITIES AND FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
21. Public and Private Offerings of Securities.
22. Securities Fraud and Insider Trading.
23. Debtor-Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy.
Unit VII: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
24. International Law and Transactions.
Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States of America.
Appendix B: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [Excerpts].
Appendix C: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 [Excerpts] and ADA Amendments Act of 2008 [Excerpts].
Appendix D: Sherman Antitrust Act [Excerpts].
Appendix E: Clayton Act of 1914 [Excerpts].
Appendix F: Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 [Excerpts].
Appendix G: Securities Act of 1933 [Excerpts].
Appendix H: Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [Excerpts].
Appendix I: Rules 10b-5, 10b5-1, and 10b5-2 from Code of Federal Regulations.
Appendix J: Rule 14e–3 from Code of Federal Regulations.
Appendix K: Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 [Excerpts].
Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.
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Personalized teaching becomes yours through a pre-built Learning Path designed with key student objectives and your syllabus in mind. The customizable online course allows you to control what students see and when they see it. Relevant readings, multimedia, and activities within the learning path intuitively guide students up the levels of learning to (1) Prepare, (2) Engage, (3) Apply and (4) Analyze business law content. These activities are organized in a logical progression to help elevate learning, promote critical thinking skills and produce better outcomes. Analytics and reports provide a snapshot of class progress, time in course, engagement and completion rates.