The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain the United States and Japan Second Edition Revised and Updated or Professional Communication Series

The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

Author: Mansel G G Blackford

Newly revised and updated, The Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in Great Britain, the United States, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Germany from the preindustrial era to the present, with emphasis on the twentieth century. Because the evolution of business has been profoundly influenced by its environment, this study pays close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes. It also offers an insightful argument on similarities and differences in global business development: the similarities result from the technological and economic imperatives of industrialization, and the differences result from the decisive influence of the national environments—laws, politics, social norms, and culture—within which businesses operate.

This edition of The Rise of Modern Business further highlights the diversity and complexity of business developments by examining both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms, exploring the development of small firms in addition to big businesses, and weighing the importance of labor and government for business development in all four nations discussed.

Library Journal

Blackford (Ohio State) focuses on business in three countries from pre industrial times to the present. He studies the evolution of firms and management in relation to the social, political, cultural, and legal environ ment. He selected these countries be cause Great Britain industrialized and developed management first; America created company struc tures; and Japan drew on its culture and the other two countries' experi ences to become a major economy. Especially useful for undergraduate classes in business or history, but also a clear introduction for general readers. Good supplemental reading lists.Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, New York

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Professional Communication Series: Managing Information in the WorkPlace, Student Edition

Author: McGraw Hill Irwin

The Professional Communication Series 1e—Public Speaking, Interviewing, Technical Communications, Multimedia Presentation Skills, and MANAGING INFORMATION In The WORKPLACE are flexible modules that cover the important communication skills students will need for their careers. Each module consists of 192 pages presented in 10 chapters. Each includes the following features: Workplace Tips, Communication @ Work, self-assessment activities, chapter summaries, key terms, Ethics in Action, Technology Tips, Global Notes, Quotable Quips, and application exercises and checklists.Components of each module are Student Edition, Student Edition with CD-ROM, Instructor Resource Manual with CD-ROM (including ExamView Pro and PowerPoint), Distance Education through PageOut, and a Web site.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Information Management in CommunicationInformation Management in the Workplace Determining Information Needs The Information Age: Get with IT Electronic Quicksand Choosing the Right Information Technology Evaluating Electronic Information and Its Use IT Training and Proficiency Ethics, Communication, and the Information Age Making Sense of It All

From Reform to Revolution or Business Ethics

From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union

Author: Minxin Pei

The demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central questions are emerging: Why did different communist systems experience different patterns of transition? Why did partial reforms in the Soviet Union and China turn into revolutions? This unique analytical and empirical study shows that patterns of regime transition in communist states depend on the countries' preexisting social structures and political and economic institutions. Minxin Pei identifies the rapid mobilization of previously excluded social groups during the reform phase as the most powerful explanation for the revolutionary outcome of initially limited political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union and China. Pei uses comparative data to analyze the different routes of transition to democracy and a market economy in the Soviet Union, China, and, to a lesser extent, other former communist states in Eastern Europe and Asia. The theory is empirically tested in four case studies of changes in China and the Soviet Union - two on the development of the private sector in each country and two on the liberalization of the mass media. The author concludes with provocative statements about regime transition from communism. He rejects the idealistic notion that democratization can, by itself, remove the structural obstacles to economic transformation, and he sees high economic and political costs as unavoidable in transition from communism along either the Soviet or the Chinese path. In comparing Soviet and Chinese transition costs, however, he implicitly endorses the evolutionary changes taking place in China and expresses strong doubt about the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union.

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An analytical and empirical study which shows that patterns of regime transition in communist states depend on the countries' preexisting social structures and political and economic institutions. Pei (politics, Princeton U.) identifies the rapid mobilization of previously excluded social groups during the reform phase as the most powerful explanation for the revolutionary outcome of initially limited political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union and China. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Philippe C. Schmitter

The first comprehensive effort to compare the recent political experiences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China by tracing their overlapping and diverging paths of regime change...Very tightly argued and erudite. -- Philippe C. Schmitter

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Business Ethics

Author: Michael Boylan

Business Ethics is a text in Basic Ethics in Action, a major new series undertaken by Prentice Hall under the general editorship of Michael Boylan. Books in the series will examine issues in normative and applied ethics from a holistic, worldview perspective. This series will feature texts that examine general issues as well as those more closely aligned to business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, and professional ethics. The anchor volume to this series is Basic Ethics, a text that presents an evaluation of the major ethical theories through a novel critical device based on personal worldview (a compendium of the facts and values that guide our lives).

In Business Ethics, Boylan presents a collection of readings that examine traditional issues within a pedagogical context of his worldview methodology.

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Introduces students to important ethical issues that arise in the world of business, stressing the importance of one's worldview and its relation to the common worldview. Presents an interview with a business owner, then describes four ethical theories, and addresses the nature of the corporation. Discusses issues of professional practice and extends the discussion to issues within the corporation, such as working conditions and affirmative action, then examines the corporation in the national and the international environment. Each chapter ends with a section on how to respond to case studies that contain ethical issues. Lacks a subject index. Information on the author is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
	Contributors	xiii
Chapter 1	Introduction: Worldview and the Link to Moral Action	1
	Interview with Mel Streeter	16
Chapter 2	Four Ethical Theories	24
	Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint	32
Chapter 3	What Is a Corporation?	40
	The Corporation as an Individual	41
	Can a Corporation Have a Conscience?	42
	Corporations as Persons: Objections to Goodpaster's "Principle of Moral Projection"	52
	The Corporation as a Moral Person	59
	Personalizing Corporate Ontology: The French Way	69
	Stakeholders	78
	Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis	81
	Stakeholders and Consent	96
	Evaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts	102
Chapter 4	What Are Proper Business Practices?	109
	Competition and the Practice of Business	109
	Focus: Ethics on Competition: Morality and Competitive Advantage	110
	The Principle of Fair Competition	115
	Advertising	124
	In Defense of Advertising: A Social Perspective	126
	Accountability, Representation, and Advertising	139
	A Model to Explore the Ethics of Erotic Stimuli in Print Advertising	150
	Information Technology	160
	Ethics and the Internet: Appropriate Behavior in Electronic Communication	162
	Focus: Technology and Business Ethics Theory	178
	The Internet, Intel and the Vigilante Stakeholder	185
	Ethical Dilemmas in the Use of Information Technology: An Aristotelian Perspective	198
	Evaluating a Case Study: Assessing Embedded Levels	205
Chapter 5	Ethical Issues Within the Corporation	215
	Working Conditions	215
	Of Acceptable Risk	217
	Working Conditions in Home Care: Negotiating Race and Class Boundaries in Gendered Work	226
	Sneakers and Sweatshops: Holding Corporations Accountable	240
	Affirmative Action	245
	Preferential Hiring	247
	Preferential Hiring: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson	253
	The Future of Affirmative Action	256
	Gender Issues	269
	In Shouts and Whispers: Paradoxes Facing Women of Colour in Organizations	270
	On the Persistence of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace	280
	Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: A Needed Resource	293
	Evaluating a Case Study: Applying Ethical Issues	301
Chapter 6	The Context of Business	310
	Government Regulation	311
	Focus: Ethics in Need of Regulation	312
	Governmental Incentives for Corporate Self-Regulation	318
	A Reflexive Model of Environmental Regulation	334
	The International Marketplace: Bribery	349
	Bribery	350
	Bribery and Implicit Agreements: A Reply to Philips	367
	What's Wrong with Bribery	370
	The International Marketplace: Universal Codes of Conduct	373
	Why an International Code of Business Ethics Would Be Good for Business	375
	Focus: Aspects of Accountancy: The Ethics of Accounting Regulation--An International Perspective	388
	Ethics and International Development	400
	Evaluating a Case Study: Structuring the Essay	407
	Internet Resources	415
	Further Readings	417
	Acknowledgments	422