Effective managers must accurately assess the legal and ethical ramifications of complex business transactions. This requires familiarity with the basic principles of comparative and international law, including trade, and an understanding of the importance of culturally diverse ethical traditions in all business relationships. Legal and Ethical Aspects of International Business is your authoritative guide to the law and ethics of business leadership in the global market. It provides the vehicle for today’s and tomorrow’s managers to successfully navigate the legal and ethical environment of business around the world. New to the Second Edition: This new edition constitutes a substantial reorganization from the first edition. In particular, the text is now composed of four parts: Part One, Public International Law and Business Ethics Part Two, Global Contracting and Resolution of Private Disputes Part Three, Import and Export Law Part Four, Protecting Ideas, Individuals and Infrastructure The new edition also includes updated cases and new issues, including cybersecurity and sustainability. Professors and student will benefit from: Well-selected and well-edited cases in each chapter help foster discussions. Finely crafted end of chapter exercises support students’ grasp of the more difficult concepts. Integrated ethics coverage appears throughout the book. Numerous examples provide context and real-world application of concepts. Rich graphics reinforce key models.

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a concise presentation of the key business-law topics that ensures every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to today's learners. Summaries of cases and case excerpts improve student understanding. Plentiful embedded video links expand on topics to shed light on how law and ethics impact real-world business situations. This book encourages students to retain what they learn by understanding the reasons behind the law, rather than simply memorizing facts and cases.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW AND ITS ENVIRONMENT, 8e, International Edition centers on the basic market-entry strategies most firms deploy as they expand into international markets: trade in goods and services, protecting and licensing intellectual property, and foreign direct investment. Interweaving the law with ethics-related issues, the text shows how individual firms manage these strategies in different ways while discussing the latest political, economic, and legal developments around the world. Helpful features such as case examples, end-of-chapter questions, and ethics activities help solidify your understanding of the material.

This book is an ideal sourcebook for students and practitioners who are interested in international business transactions and want to gain familiarity with the law and practice of international trade law, policies and ethics. It contains eleven chapters, which deal extensively with the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Incoterms 2000, Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air, Letters of Credit law, the World Trade Organization, international intellectual property law, anti-dumping and countervailing laws and international commercial arbitration law. Each chapter examines an important aspect of international trade and business by describing and analyzing the relevant law, policies and ethical issues, posing tutorial problems or providing sample examination questions and lists of references and incorporating extracts from relevant international documents and conventions.

Focusing on ethics in every aspect of the business environment, The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business, Second Edition by Gerald R. Ferrera, Mystica M. Alexander, William P. Wiggins, Cheryl Kirschner and Jonathan Darrow, prepares students to work within current industry norms, practices, and legislation. Ethics coverage is integrated throughout the book and featured in nearly every chapter. Ethical theory is interwoven with practical applications using several novel pedagogical tools developed to promote focused, thoughtful inquiry and to highlight the interplay of ethics and law. The book also meets the needs of students who will be facing an increasingly international business environment. Integrated coverage of international issues goes beyond comparative law topics and includes substantial coverage of central topics in international business law, such as, bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, key provisions of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods, and a comparison of the Uniform Commercial Code and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Key Features: Excellent, pragmatic discussion of business organization implications and legal aspects of expanding a U.S. business internationally Crisp, thorough coverage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, with contextual material on corruption effects on society and business, as well as explanation of the law and examples Readable, concise explanation of financing international business transactions, including overview of international debtor-creditor issues, risks specific to international transactions and description of the Letter of Credit process