Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
Anne T. Lawrence
17th Edition
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,Table of Contents — Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
(17th Edition)
PART ONE: Business in Society
1. The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
2. Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships
3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship
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4. Business in a Globalized World
PART TWO: Business and Ethics
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5. Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
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6. Organizational Ethics
PART THREE: Business and Public Policy
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7. Business–Government Relations
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8. Influencing the Political Environment
PART FOUR: Business and the Natural Environment
9. Sustainable Development and Global Business
10. Managing for Sustainability
PART FIVE: Business and Technology
11. The Role of Technology
12. Regulating and Managing Technology
,PART SIX: Business and Its Stakeholders
13. Shareholder Rights and Corporate Governance
14. Consumer Protection
15. Employees and the Corporation
16. Managing a Diverse Workforce
17. Business and Its Suppliers
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18. The Community and the Corporation
19. Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
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Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a service for
a profit.
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⊚ false
2) The term stakeholder refers exclusively to the founders of a business organization.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Businesses and society are independent of each other.
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⊚ false
4) The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to create long-term
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value for its shareholders.
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⊚ false
5) The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that companies
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perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of multiple groups in society.
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⊚ false
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6) The normative argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that the stakeholder view
is simply a more realistic description of how companies really work.
⊚ true
⊚ false