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Legal Aspects of Business Organizations

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Legal Aspects of Business Organizations

This textbook introduces the legal aspects of business organizations. It covers legal systems, relationships and liability between principals and agents, termination of agency, partnership characterizations and formation, partnership operation and termination, hybrid business forms, the characterization and formation of corporations, the legal aspects of corporate finance, corporate powers and management, corporate expansion, regulation, and dissolution, and business ethics.

Business
Author
Anne E. Oestreicher
Publisher
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
Business Administration
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Contents· 75 sections
  1. 01: Law and Legal Systems
  2. 1.01: What Is Law
  3. 1.02: Schools of Legal Thought
  4. 1.03: Basic Concepts and Categories of US Positive Law
  5. 1.04: Sources of Law and Their Priority
  6. 1.05: Legal and Political Systems of the World
  7. 1.06: A Sample Case
  8. 1.07: Business and the Bill of Rights
  9. 1.08: Summary and Exercises
  10. 02: Relationships between Principal and Agent
  11. 2.01: Introduction to Agency and the Types of Agents
  12. 2.02: Duties between Agent and Principal
  13. 2.03: Cases
  14. 2.04: Summary and Exercises
  15. 03: Liability of Principal and Agent Termination of Agency
  16. 3.01: Principals Contract Liability
  17. 3.02: Principals Tort and Criminal Liability
  18. 3.03: Agents Personal Liability for Torts and Contracts Termination of Agency
  19. 3.04: Cases
  20. 3.05: Summary and Exercises
  21. 04: PartnershipsGeneral Characteristics and Formation
  22. 4.01: Introduction to Partnerships and Entity Theory
  23. 4.02: Partnership Formation
  24. 4.03: Cases
  25. 4.04: Summary and Exercises
  26. 05: Partnership Operation and Termination
  27. 5.01: Operation- Relations among Partners
  28. 5.02: Operation- The Partnership and Third Parties
  29. 5.03: Dissolution and Winding Up
  30. 5.04: Cases
  31. 5.05: Summary and Exercises
  32. 06: Hybrid Business Forms
  33. 6.01: Introduction to Hybrid Business Forms
  34. 6.02: Limited Partnerships
  35. 6.03: Limited Liability Companies
  36. 6.04: Other Forms
  37. 6.05: Cases
  38. 6.06: Summary and Exercises
  39. 07: CorporationGeneral Characteristics and Formation
  40. 7.01: Historical Background
  41. 7.02: Partnerships versus Corporations
  42. 7.03: The Corporate Veil- The Corporation as a Legal Entity
  43. 7.04: Classifications of Corporations
  44. 7.05: Corporate Organization
  45. 7.06: Effect of Organization
  46. 7.07: Cases
  47. 7.08: Summary and Exercises
  48. 08: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
  49. 8.01: General Sources of Corporate Funds
  50. 8.02: Bonds
  51. 8.03: Types of Stock
  52. 8.04: Initial Public Offerings and Consideration for Stock
  53. 8.05: Dividends
  54. 8.06: The Winds of Change
  55. 8.07: Cases
  56. 8.08: Summary and Exercises
  57. 09: Corporate Powers and Management
  58. 9.01: Powers of a Corporation
  59. 9.02: Rights of Shareholders
  60. 9.03: Duties and Powers of Directors and Officers
  61. 9.04: Liability of Directors and Officers
  62. 9.05: Cases
  63. 9.06: Summary and Exercises
  64. 10: Corporate Expansion State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations and Corporate Dissolution
  65. 10.01: Corporate Expansion
  66. 10.02: Foreign Corporations
  67. 10.03: Dissolution
  68. 10.04: Cases
  69. 10.05: Summary and Exercises
  70. 11: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
  71. 11.01: What Is Ethics
  72. 11.02: Major Ethical Perspectives
  73. 11.03: An Ethical Decision Model
  74. 11.04: Corporations and Corporate Governance
  75. 11.05: Summary and Exercises