Managers and The Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This comprehensive legal environment text takes a managerial focus with many business-oriented features that present cutting-edge issues and cases. To illustrate key legal concepts, this text utilizes both summarized and excerpted cases.

FROM THE CRITICS

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New edition of a text that provides a broad and detailed understanding of how law impacts daily management decisions and business strategies. With an emphasis upon ethical considerations, Bagley (business administration, Harvard Business School) covers essential legal topics such as agency, contracts, torts, criminal law, antitrust, as well as employment law, intellectual property, lending transactions, securities regulation, and environmental law. He also addresses current concerns in business regulation such as consumer privacy and the Internet, the World Trade Organization, copyright law in cyberspace, mandatory arbitration of employment disputes, employer liability for sexual harassment, selective disclosure of inside information to securities analysts, and the creation, sale, and patentability of genetically modified organisms. Each of the 23 chapters contains three to nine examples of law in action, boxed discussion of how the laws apply to cyberspace, and economic, historical, and political perspectives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ACCREDITATION

CONSTANCE E. BAGLEY, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Bagley is the co-author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law. She is a member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, and the Advisory Board for the Bureau of National Affairs Corporate Practice Series.