Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment

by Marianne Moody Jennings

Offering the best preparation for future managers, BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, & GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, 8e, teaches you how to understand and apply legal and ethical concepts to real business. Going further than simply introducing you to the legal environment, this text offers the most comprehensive and integrated approach to exploring the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics. It provides thorough coverage of relevant legal issues in the context of practical business examples--and includes almost 300 real-world applications! Almost every page illustrates the clear relevance of chapter concepts to issues you will face in the real world. Intriguing cases and critical-thinking exercises motivate you to apply law and ethics to real business scenarios.

Genres: Business

896 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 1994

Reviews

[Rae (semi-hiatus) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This. Was. So. Dry. And boring, not because of the material, but how it was executed. There was so much legal jargon that if you hadn't taken any legal course before, you'd want to pull your hair out trying to read/understand this. I basically read a paragraph, googled, read a paragraph, googled. That does not make for a good textbook. Especially one that is supposed to be an introduction to business law.
I feel like textbooks fall into this trap of putting the bulk of their information in case studies to effectively convey the point, something the pages and pages can't do and this book falls into that. Thank goodness for those law reviews and case studies, they actually taught me more than the entirety of the chapters did.
It did thoroughly solidify my hatred towards corporations though lol. They never have consumers or employees interests in mind, only profits. I always knew our legal system was messed up, but the laws in place are downright ridiculous and backwards. They are there for the companies interests only.

[Camille Whiting · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jennings does an excellent job merging legal terms with examples and case studies. This book is full of legal jargon and incredibly dense reading. It will provide a great foundation for understanding business law, but will merely convince the average business person to hire legal counsel for all trasactions and contracts.

[Amanda J]

Read this book a part of my MBA program, this book examines the legal and ethical environments of business from a global environment, with current and relative examples throughout. Meets AACSB accrediting standards.

[Beth Melillo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introductory text to legal and ethical issues. The writing in the chapter was clear and explanations were sufficient. In the class I read this for we focused on the cases in order to illustrate the concepts, rather than memorizing concepts or specific laws and rationales.

[Brenda Higgs · Rating 4 out of 5]

First time I realized the placement of a parking lot has on the environment and how a business can help.