Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for Business

PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN REAL BUSINESS. Cutting-edge coverage teaches future managers how to use law and legal tools to create value while managing legal and business risk, how to attain core business objectives and how to effectively handle legal disputes. Students learn to identify and resolve legal issues before they become problems. By addressing legal and strategic issues embedded within today’s fast-moving environment and providing compelling examples that bring material to life, this book enhances legal astuteness.

TREATMENT OF THE GLOBAL LEGAL ENVIRONMENT IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ON THE MARKET. Business law authority Constance E. Bagley offers thorough coverage of the most essential business law topics, such as agency, contracts, sales, torts, criminal law, antitrust, and employment law. The author also highlights specialized topics crucial to business managers, including intellectual property, lending transactions and bankruptcy, securities regulation and bans on insider trading, and environmental law.

IN-DEPTH CASE TREATMENT TEACHES CRITICAL-THINKING SKILLS. Provided as summaries or presented in the actual language of the court, numerous cases in each chapter represent key court decisions that shape important business law concepts or present key legal conflicts that managers will address in their careers. Associated critical-thinking questions require students to analyze what they have read and to predict the decision's impact on future cases.

"PERSPECTIVE BOXES" OFFER AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VIEW OF TODAY'S LAW. This edition clearly shows how history, politics, and economics affect the evolution of the law with intriguing "Perspective Boxes" throughout the text. Each box focuses on a historical, political, or economic perspective to help students become more aware of the interplay among these three areas and the law.