Business and Its Environment

by David P. Baron

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.

Genres: School, Textbooks

792 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1992

Reviews

[Justin Jaeger · Rating 3 out of 5]

We jumped around in this one quite a bit, but I think it turned out to be one of the most comprehensive texts we've used in the MBA program. The cases were relevant, current and instructive. I referred to it regularly. I can't see myself going back to it for anything in particular though, it was useful for the class and that's about it that I can figure.

[Rachel Aranda · Rating 2 out of 5]

My school had a "special edition" of this book that has the university's name on it and was a little more condense. However, I read the original version earlier because I wanted to see if Business School was something I'd be interested in transferring into years ago. With that being said, if you do not go to Texas Tech University then this review may not be helpful to you.

This textbook was informative and had interesting cases at the end of each chapter. The questions the cases asked at the end of each reading were thought provoking, and I actually enjoyed discussing them with my classmates, professor, and friends. The texts for the chapters themselves I found to be very bland and easy to lose interest in after a while. I'd have really liked if the survival edition had bolded important words instead of keeping all the text the same. Thankfully most of the chapters aren't too long but there are quite a few of them that I feel are longer than needed. This was a daunting book to read by yourself since you don't know which words and information is important since there is no identifying of terms (that's why I have it 2 stars). Since I've read a "special edition" that I could talk through anything confusing and share thoughts on it became more enjoyable. I don't think I'll reread by myself again or look up anything within either book again though.

[Fadlullah Puteh · Rating 5 out of 5]

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