Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment [Hardcover]

Marianne M. Jennings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0538877626 | ISBN-13: 978-0538877626 | Edition: 5th

This highly effective text provides superior legal, ethical, and regulatory coverage while fully integrating practical business practices for tomorrow's business managers. Legal topics are explored and explained through real-world business examples (over 300 references to business are made in the text). In addition to a solid foundation in the law, students learn valuable legal and ethical reasoning skills through a variety of critical thinking exercises. Students receive -- and appreciate -- practical advice on when it is necessary to call a lawyer, how best to use legal aid services and how to avoid legal trouble in the first place. This text fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards.

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After having reviewed many textbooks to use in my course instruction, Jennings’ style, content, and organization are very attractive. As business ethics has become a pervasive theme in course work, it is certainly helpful to encounter little snippets or even longer profiles of ethical dilemmas that are of current interest.

The Business Strategy feature contains some really interesting material for thought and discussion. I like the fact that this book forces the student to constantly think about the business ramifications of law. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Marianne M. Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies in business in the Department of Supply Chain Management, College of Business, at Arizona State University. She has been named professor of the year in the College of Business three times and was the recipient of a Burlington Northern teaching excellence award. Professor Jennings has worked with the Federal Public Defender and U.S. Attorney in Nevada and has served as a consultant to many law firms, businesses, and professional groups. She has authored more than 200 articles in academic, professional, and trade journals as well as six textbooks and monographs in circulation. Her biweekly column for THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC is nationally syndicated, and her work has appeared in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. In addition, Professor Jennings is a legal commentator for National Public Radio. She has conducted more than 300 workshops and seminars in the areas of business, personal and professional ethics, legal ethics, real estate, credit management, legal issues for academic administrators, law for the CPA, and legal and political strategic planning. A member of the State Bar of Arizona, Professor Jennings earned her undergraduate degree in finance and her JD from Brigham Young University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 869 pages
• Publisher: West Legal Studies in Business; 5th edition (July 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0538877626
• ISBN-13: 978-0538877626
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,828,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Professor Marianne Jennings is a professor of legal and ethical studies in the Department of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She directed the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics from 1995-1999. Her undergraduate degree in finance and her J. D. were taken at Brigham Young University. She has done consulting work for AES, Boeing, Dial Corporation, Mattel, Motorola, CFA Institute, Southern California Edison, the Arizona Auditor General, the Cities of Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson, the Institute of Internal Auditors, AIMR, Boeing, Coca-Cola, DuPont, AES, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Motorola, Hy-Vee Foods, IBM, Bell Helicopter, Amgen, and VIAD.

She joined the faculty at ASU in 1977 and became a full professor in 1983. In May 2006 she was named as the faculty director for the MBA Executive Program. Business Strategy for the Political Arena, was selected in 1985 by Library Journal as one of its recommended books in business/government relations. A Business Tale: A Story of Ethics, Choices, Success, and a Very Large Rabbit, a fable about business ethics, was chosen by Library Journal in 2004 as its business book of the year. A Business Tale was also a finalist for two other literary awards for 2004. Her book on long-term success, Building a Business Through Good Times and Bad: Lessons from Fifteen Companies, Each With a Century of Dividends, was published in October 2002 and has been used by Booz, Allen, Hamilton for its work on business longevity. Her latest book, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse was published by St. Martin's Press in July 2006.

Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Reader's Digest. She was given an Arizona Press Club award in 1994 for her work as a feature columnist. She has been a commentator on All Things Considered for National Public Radio.

In 1999, she was given best article awards by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the Association for Government Accountants. She was given best article awards by the institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Government Accountants in 2001 and 2004. She has been a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar since 1995. In 2000, the Association of Government Accountants inducted her into its Speakers Hall of Fame. In 2005, she was named an All-Star Speaker by the Institute of Internal Auditors. In 2006, her article, 'Ethics and Investment Management: True Reform,' was selected by the United Kingdom's Emerald Management Review from 15,000 articles in 400 journals as one of the top 50 articles in 2005.

She is a contributing editor for the Real Estate Law Journal, the Corporate Finance Review, and Financial Engineering. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Studies Education during 2003-2004. During 1984-85, she served as then-Governor Bruce Babbitt's appointee to the Arizona Corporation Commission. In 1999 she was appointed by Governor Jane Dee Hull to the Arizona Commission on Character. During 1986-1988, she served as Associate Dean in the College of Business. From 1986-87, she served as ASU's faculty athletic representative to the NCAA and PAC-10.

She is a member of twelve professional organizations, including the State Bar of Arizona, and has served on four boards of directors, including Arizona Public Service (1987-2000) and the Center for Children with Chronic Illness and Disability at the University of Minnesota. She was appointed to the board of advisors for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators in 2004 and serves on the board of trustees for Think Arizona, a public policy think tank. She has appeared on CNBC, CBS This Morning, the Today Show, and CBS Evening News.

Personal: Married since 1976 to Terry H. Jennings, Maricopa County Attorney's Office Deputy County Attorney; four children: Sarah, Claire, Sam and John.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall, I recommend it., September 4, 2001

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This review is from: Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment (Hardcover)

This book was assigned to one of my MBA classes. The book itself was a good source of reference not only for my business law class but also to other two classes. The book's language is simple and easy to understand. The only flaw I found about this this book was that some cases were complex and I had to refer to actual law books and regulations. Overall, I recommend this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite Comprehensive, March 16, 2006

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This text offers great details, but I did not rate it as 5 stars because (1) when searching for content, it is difficult to see the key words in the text and (2) the case studies are well selected, but since they are inserted throughout the chapter, it is challenging to determine where the case ends and the author's content begins.

Overall, I would recommend the Jennings text and will keep a copy on my shelf.

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