Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy 17th Edition
By Anne T. Lawrence, James Weber
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PART ONE: Business in Society
Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Chapter 2: Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships
Chapter 3: Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship
Chapter 4: Business in a Globalized World
PART TWO: Business and Ethics
Chapter 5: Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
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Chapter 6: Organizational Ethics
PART THREE: Business and Public Policy
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Chapter 7: Business–Government Relations
Chapter 8: Influencing the Political Environment
PART FOUR: Business and the Natural Environment
Chapter 9: Sustainable Development and Global Business
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Chapter 10: Managing for Sustainability
PART FIVE: Business and Technology
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Chapter 11: The Role of Technology
Chapter 12: Regulating and Managing Technology
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PART SIX: Business and Its Stakeholders
Chapter 13: Shareholder Rights and Corporate Governance
Chapter 14: Consumer Protection
Chapter 15: Employees and the Corporation
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Chapter 16: Managing a Diverse Workforce
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
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Chapter 01
The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
True / False Questions
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1. Walmart has been called a "template for 21 st century capitalism."
True False
2. A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a
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service for a profit.
True False
3. Businesses and society are independent of one another.
True False
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4. The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm's sole purpose is to create value
for its shareholders.
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True False
5. The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that
companies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of multiple groups
in society.
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True False
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
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7. Nonmarket stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the
company as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and
services.
True False
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8. Market stakeholders include nongovernmental organizations and the business
support groups.
True False
9. Government can be considered both a market and nonmarket stakeholder.
True False
10. The interests of different stakeholders often coincide.
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True False
11. Stakeholders involved with one part of a company often may have little or no
involvement with another part of the company.
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True False
12. Some scholars have suggested that managers pay the most attention to stakeholders
possessing the least salience.
True False
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13. Urgency refers to the extent to which a stakeholder's actions are seen as proper or
appropriate by the broader society.
True False
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14. A stakeholder map is a useful tool, because it enables managers to see quickly how
stakeholders feel about an issue and whether salient stakeholders tend to be in favor
or opposed.
True False
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15. The external environment of business is static.
True False
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Multiple Choice Questions
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