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Criminology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
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International Business
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
International business is the exchange of goods, services, technology, capital, or knowledge across national borders. It can include: (1) Selling goods and services between countries, (2) Producing goods overseas and selling them domestically, (3) Outsourcing services to cheaper locations, (4) Transferring people, intellectual property, or contractual assets.
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Blueprint for Success in College - Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies (Dillon)
Dave Dillon · Grossmont College
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Fundamentals of Business
Stephen Skripak et al. · Virginia Tech
This book is intended to serve customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances.
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Principles of Management
Mabel Gehrett and Jamie Hammond · Western Technical College
This course is designed to introduce students to the POLC framework as well as basic business concepts. Each concept will be covered in more detail in subsequent classes in the program.
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Business Statistics
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences.
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BMT1010: Introduction to Business
L.P. Bassette, F.D. Gibson-Bailey, N. Park, C.L. Perry and D.M. Robinson · Prince George's Community College
This text address the basic characteristics of the business enterprise, its organization and role in a free society.
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BUS 215: Introduction to Business
Brown · Cosumnes River College
This textbook provides students with insight and knowledge into developing their entrepreneurial opportunity and creating a business plan for it. Students will research entrepreneurial ideas and determine how to turn an idea into a successful startup enterprise given the current and anticipated demographic, technological, and social climates. Students will also be offered an organized, step-by-step approach to preparing a business plan.
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Small Business Management in the 21st Century
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This text offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.
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Writing for Strategic Communication Industries
Jasmine Roberts · The Ohio State University
Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.
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MNGT 481: Strategic Management
Precha Thavikulwat · Towson University
This text aims to develop strategic thinking skills that integrate and build on the concepts and practices from functional business courses. Students will practice in-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and work to understand how managers must develop and implement strategies that generate sustainable value for all stakeholders by positioning the organization successfully in its competitive environment.
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Principles of Nutrition and Weight Management (Remix)
Wesley Meeteer · Concord University
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Information Systems for Business
Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar · OERI
This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses what an information system (IS) is and its components. Part 2 discusses how people use IS for personal and professional development, how businesses use IS to create and sustain competitive advantages, and how people build and support IS. Part 3 discusses the role of IS in globalization, the ethical and legal implications, and emerging trends of the future.
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Team Building and Problem Solving (NWTC)
Michael Brown · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text focuses on developing effective teamwork and problem-solving skills within organizational settings. It covers strategies for enhancing group communication, fostering collaboration, and addressing challenges through collective efforts.
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Legal Aspects of Business Organizations
Anne E. Oestreicher · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
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.
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Research-Based Strategies for Even Better Preschool Storytimes
Erin Ingram · University of Kentucky
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The Sustainable Business Case Book
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This text is one of the first of its kind. It combines the the theory of sustainability with key concepts, analytical information and contextual information with a collection of cases which provide insights, perspective and practical guidance on how sustainable businesses operate from different business functional area perspectives.
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Leadership for Business
Jamie Hammond · Western Technical College
This text is designed to develop essential management skills and covers internal/external business environments, management functions, human resources, marketing, and accounting principles. As of early 2024, updated course outcome summaries for this specific class were under development.
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Business Fundamentals
Cornelius Brown and Hannah Wong · Cosumnes River College
This remixed textbook is for use with Business 300 Introduction to Business (California Community College C-ID BUS 110). It was remixed by Cornelius Brown and is licensed CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.
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Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach
Zahr K. Said · University of Washington
The purposes of tort law have expanded over the centuries of its evolution. In its earliest forms in England in the 12th century, tort claims provided a means of ordering civil society and keeping the peace. By defining certain conduct as wrongful and enabling a means of redress for harms caused by deviations from that standard, tort law reflected and helped shape social behavior and expectations.