Business, government, and society : a managerial perspective : text and cases
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Business, government, and society : a managerial perspective : text and cases
(McGraw-Hill series in management)
McGraw-Hill, 1996
8th ed
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work examines the changing interrelationships between business, government and society, and how far these changes affect the attitudes, duties and decisions of managers, particularly those in larger corporations. This edition includes new topics, such as: emerging views of corporate social responsibility; human rights issues in China; current forces influencing managerial ethics; trade disputes with Japan; attitudes towards the natural environment; and corporate downsizing. There are 21 case studies.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A framework studying business, government and society
- introduction to the field
- Exxon
- the business environment
- Enron corporation
- case: the American fur company business power
- the American tobacco company
- case: construction of the Central Pacific
- critics of business
- Sisters of Loretto
- case: time warner and rap critics. Part 2 The nature and management of social responsibility
- corporate social responsibility
- Merek
- case: Union Carbide Corporation and Bhopal
- managing social issues
- Hewlett-Packard
- case: Levi Strauss and Co. in China. Part 3 Business ethics
- ethics in the business systems
- correct craft
- case: Dow Corning and breast implants
- making ethical decisions in business, J.C. Penney
- case: an application of ethical principles
- case: John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust. Part 4 Business and government
- the government-business relationship - an overview
- the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation "skunk works"
- case: the savings and loan debacle
- reforming the regulatory system
- advanced genetic sciences
- case: the Microsoft.
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