Law and Ethics in Global Business or The Economics of Contracts

Law and Ethics in Global Business: How to Integrate Law and Ethics into Corporate Governance Around the World

Author: Brian Nelson

An understanding of the legal context of business is a prerequisite for today's global business environment and an essential aspect of the potential executive knowledge, yet too often it is poorly understood and even more poorly applied to business decisions.

This book provides comprehensive and, above all, business focused guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they should be integrated into ethical and effective business decisions. It concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to articulate the impact of global business law and its international applications and provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and ethical principles which both facilitate and regulate corporate business.

The author combines the expertise of a long-term blue chip law background with the insights of an experienced business educator. Law and Ethics in Global Business is both a comprehensive course book for MBA study and an invaluable business reference source for any executive involved in global business.

Table of Contents:

1	A global framework	3
2	Making business decisions : integrating law and ethics	13
3	Business regulation in general	25
4	Private property rights	39
5	General obligations (tort law)	53
6	Contract rights and obligations	65
7	Relationships with competitors : competition law	79
8	Relationships with consumers : consumer protection	93
9	Relationships with local communities : environmental law	103
10	Relationships with employees : employment and labor law	115
11	Relationships with taxing authorities : international corporate income taxation	139
12	Relationships with shareholders : corporate law	153
13	Relationships with share traders : securities regulation	163
14	Relationships with regulators : internal controls	175
15	Relationships with directors : board supervision	189
16	Relationships with creditors : creditors' rights and bankruptcy law	201
17	Dispute resolution : litigation, arbitration and mediation	217
18	Intellectual property rights : patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets	233
19	International and European patents	243
20	Insuring business risks	257

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The Economics of Contracts: A Primer

Author: Bernard Salani

Although it is one of the major achievements in the history of economic thought, the general equilibrium model is not completely satisfactory as a descriptive tool. In the 1970s several economists settled on a new way to study economic relationships that is often called the "economics of information." The theory of contracts is one of its main building blocks.

The theory of contracts uses partial equilibrium models that take into account the full complexity of strategic interactions between privately informed agents in well-defined institutional settings. The models sum up the constraints imposed by the prevailing institutional setting through a contract, either explicit or implicit. They make intensive use of noncooperative game theory with asymmetric information.

The Economics of Contracts introduces graduate students and nonspecialist professional economists to the theory of contracts. It grew out of a course Professor Salanié gave to third-year Stanford graduate students and third-year students at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique. The book focuses on the methods used to analyze the models, but also discusses a few of the many applications the theory has generated in various fields of economics. The author's goal is to give readers the basic tools to create their own applications.

Islam in a Globalizing World or Rise and Demise

Islam in a Globalizing World

Author: Thomas W Simons Jr

This book takes a historical approach to examining Islam's role in globalization. The author identifies complex historical and geopolitical trends in Islamic history, and constructs from these a clear assessment of contemporary Islam. Most important, the book examines historical trends from a perspective that contributes to an understanding of Islam in the aftermath of September 11.

The author takes us through a review of the first Islamic millennium and Islam's role as a globalizing force, to subsequent changes in the Muslim world, through a comparison with earlier radical movements in Russia, and finally to trends in contemporary political Islam and projections for future developments. Along the way, the author points out many of the challenges Islamists have faced, some of their pitfalls, and some modernizing attributes of contemporary Islam.

This accessible, timely book should be of strong interest to anyone with a desire for greater understanding in this transformed global environment.

About the Author
Thomas W. Simons, Jr. is Consulting Professor, Center for international Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. He was the Ambassador to Pakistan from 1996 to 1998.

University of Virginia, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Fomer ambassador to Libya and Indonesia and the Philippines - Newsom,David,D.

Today, in an era in which the world of Islam is suddenly in the forefront of public concern, this impressive application of history should help readers to an intelligent understanding of the dynamic and, at times, conflicting forces at work in that world.

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Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems

Author: Christopher K Chase Dunn

Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political structures.Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall show that stateless societies developed in the context of regional intersocietal networks that differed significantly from larger and more hierarchical world-systems. The processes by which chiefdoms rose and fell are similar to the ways in which states, empires, and modern hegemonic core states have experienced uneven development. Most world-systems exhibit a pattern of political centralization and decentralization, but the mechanisms and processes of change can vary greatly.Looking at the systematic similarities and differences among small scale, middle-sized, and global world-systems, the authors address such questions as: Do all world-systems have core/periphery hierarchies in which the development of one area necessitates the underdevelopment of another? How were kin-based logics of social integration transformed into state-based tributary logics, and how did capitalism emerge within the interstices of tributary states and empires to eventually become the predominant logic of accumulation? How did the rise of commodity production and the eventual dominance of capitalist accumulation modify the processes by which political centers rise and fall?Rise and Demise offers far-reaching explanations of social change, showing how the comparative study of world-systems increases ourunderstanding of early history, the contemporary global system, and future possibilities for world society.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Approaches to World-Systems	11
2	Defining World-Systems	27
3	Two, Three, Many World-Systems	41
4	New Territories: The Problem of Incorporation	59
5	The Semiperiphery: Seedbed of Change	78
6	Iterations and Transformations: A Theory of World-Systems Evolution	99
7	A Very Small World-System	121
8	The Unification of Afroeurasia: Circa 500 B.C.E.-1400 C.E.	149
9	The Europe-Centered System	187
10	Cross-System Comparisons: Similarities and Differences	200
11	The Transformation of World-Systems	233
12	Conclusions, Questions, Speculations	247
	Notes	255
	Glossary	271
	References	276
	About the Book and Authors	307
	Index	309

Writing Business Proposals and Reports or An East Asian Renaissance

Writing Business Proposals and Reports: Strategies for Success

Author: Susan L Brock

Writing effective reports and proposals takes more than fundamental writing skills. This book teaches readers how to organize, research, develop, and edit complex documents as well as sharpen one's overall business writing skills.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Strategies for Writing Proposals and Reports Writing Self-Assessment Reviewing the Basics Punctuation Pointers Common Faults Other Suggestions to Sharpen Your Writing Skills Preparing to Write Organizing for Maximum Impact The Persuasive Report Feasibility Study Choosing an Appropriate Tone Using a Consistent Style Editing to Enhance Your Writing Part 2: Writing Successful Reports Developing Your Ideas Sample Report Sample Feasibility Study Sample Report Using the Motivated Sequence Outline Editing Your Written Reports Completing Your Reports Part 3: Writing Winning Proposals Developing Your Ideas Editing Your Written Proposals Completing Your Proposals Sample Proposal Part 4: Review Checklist

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An East Asian Renaissance: Gravity and Friction in Economic Growth

Author: Indermit Gill

This book explores the future of East Asia's middle-income countries. Without the advantages of low wages or high skills, and with limited natural resources, East Asian economies are following a new path of regional integration, led by China. Along this path, policy makers must manage a migration of 2 million per month to East Asian cities; a sharp and unprecedented increase in income inequality; and growing discontent with corruption. This new agenda of domestic integration is the main challenge facing East Asia.