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

by Nelson; Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415377782
• ISBN10: 0415377781
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 Businessis both a comprehensive course book for MBA study and an invaluable business reference source forany executive involved in global business.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
PART 1 INTRODUCTION: INTEGRATING LAW AND ETHICS INTO CORPORATE GOVERNMENT	1	(22)
A global framework	3	(10)
Making business decisions: integrating law and ethics	13	(10)
PART 2 BASIC BUSINESS LAWS	23	(54)
Business regulation in general	25	(14)
Private property rights	39	(14)
General obligations (tort law)	53	(12)
Contract rights and obligations	65	(12)
PART 3 GOVERNMENT REGULATION	77	(74)
Relationships with competitors: competition law	79	(14)
Relationships with consumers: consumer protection	93	(10)
Relationships with local communities: environmental law	103	(12)
Relationships with employees: employment and labor law	115	(24)
Relationships with taxing authorities: international corporate income taxation	139	(12)
PART 4 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE	151	(64)
Relationships with shareholders: corporate law	153	(10)
Relationships with share traders: securities regulation	163	(12)
Relationships with regulators: internal controls	175	(14)
Relationships with directors: board supervision	189	(12)
Relationships with creditors: creditors' rights and bankruptcy law	201	(14)
PART 5 OTHER LEGAL FACILITIES	215	(52)
Dispute resolution: litigation, arbitration and mediation	217	(16)
Intellectual property rights: patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets	233	(10)
International and European patents	243	(14)
Insuring business risks	257	(10)
Notes	267	(28)
Index	295