Midterm #1 Flashcards

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Business

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An organization that seeks to earn profits by providing goods and services.

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Profit

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What remains (if anything) after a business expenses are subtracted from its sales revenues.

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Not-for-profit Organization

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An organization that provides goods and services to customers, but does not seek to make a profit while doing so.

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Economic System

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The way in which a nation allocates its resources among its citizens.

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Factors of Production

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The resources used o produce goods and services: labour, capital, entrepreneurs, and natural resources.

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Command Economy

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An economic system in which government controls all or most factors of production and makes all or most production decisions.

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Market Economy

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An economic system in which individuals control all or most factors of production and make all or most production decisions.

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Communism

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A type of command economy in which the government owns and operates all industries.

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Market

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An exchange process between buyers and sellers of a particular good or service.

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Input Market

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Firms buy resources that they need in the procedure of goods and services.

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Output Market

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Firms supple goods and services in response to demand on the part of consumers.

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which markets decide what, when, and for whom to produce.

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Mixed Market Economy

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An economic system with elements of both a command economy and a market economy; in practice, typical of most nations’ economies.

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14
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Privatization

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The transfer of activities from the government to the private sector.

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15
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Deregulation

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A reduction in the number of laws affecting business activity.

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Competition Act

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Prohibits a variety of business practices that lessen competition.

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17
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Lobbyist

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A person hired by a company or an industry to represent its interests with government officials.

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Trade Association

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An organization dedicated to promoting the interests and assisting the members of a particular industry.

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Demand

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The willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a product or service.

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Supply

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The willingness and ability of producers to offer a good or service for sale.

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Law of Demand

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The principle that buyers will purchase (demand) more of a product as price rises.

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Law of Supply

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The principle that producers will offer (supply) more of a product as price rises.

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Demand and Supply Schedule

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Assessment of the relationships between different levels of demand and supply at different price levels.

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Demand Curve

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Graph showing how many units of a product will be demanded (bought) at different prices.

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Supply Curve

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Graph showing how many units of a product will be supplied (offered for sale) at different prices.

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Market Price (Equilibrium price)

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Profit-maximizing price at which the quantity of goods demanded and the quantity of goods supplied are equal.

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27
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Private Enterprise

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An economic system characterized by private property rights, freedom of choice, profits, and competition.

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28
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Perfect Competition

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A market or industry characterized by a very large number of small firms producing an identical product so that none of the firms has any ability to influence price.

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29
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Surplus

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Situation in which quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded.

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30
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Monopoly

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A market or industry with only one producer, who can set the price of its product and/or resources.

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31
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External Environment

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Everything outside an organization’s boundaries that might affect it.

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Economic Environment

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Conditions of the economic system in which an organization operates.

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33
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Aggregate Output

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Total quantity of goods and services produced by an economic system during a given period.

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Business Cycle

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Pattern of short-term ups and downs (expansions and contractions) in an economy.

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

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Total value of all goods and services produced within a given period by a national economy through domestic factors of production.

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Gross National Product (GNP)

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Total value of all goods and services produced by a national economy within a given a period regardless of where the factors of production are located.

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37
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GDP Per Capita

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Gross domestic product per person.

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38
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Real GDP

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GDP calculated to account for changes in currency values and price changes.

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Purchasing Power Parity

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Principle that exchange rates are set so that the prices of similar products in different countries are about the same.

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Productivity

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Measure of economic growth that compares how much a system produces with the resources needed to produce it.

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Balance of Trade

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The total of a country’s exports (sales to other countries) minus its imports (purchases from other countries).

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42
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National Debt

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The total amount of money that a country owes its creditors.

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Budget Deficits

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The result of the government spending more in one year than it takes in during that year.

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Inflation

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Occurrence of widespread price increases throughout an economic system.

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45
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Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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Measure of the prices of typical products purchased by consumers living in urban areas.

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46
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Deflation

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A period of generally falling prices.

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47
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Unemployment

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The level of joblessness among people actively seeking work in an economic system.

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Fiscal Policies

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Policies whereby governments collect and spend revenues.

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Monetary Polocies

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Policies whereby the government controls the size of the nation’s money supply.

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Research and Development (R&D)

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Those activities that are necessary to provide new products, services, and processes.

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Political-Legal Environment

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Conditions reflecting the relationship between business and government, usually in the form of government regulation.

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Socio-cultural Environment

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Conditions including the customs, values, attitudes, and demographic characteristics of the society in which an organization functions.

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53
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Outsourcing

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Strategy of paying suppliers and distributors to perform certain business processes or to provide needed materials or services.

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Business Process Management

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Approach by which firms move away from department-oriented organization and toward process-oriented team structures that cut across old departmental boundaries.

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55
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Acquisition

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The purchase of a company by another, larger firm, which absorbs the smaller company into its operations.

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56
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Merger

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The union of two companies to form a single new business.

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57
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Poison Pill

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A defence management adopts to make a firm less attractive to an actual or potential hostile suitor in a takeover attempt.

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Divestiture

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Occurs when a company sells part of its existing business operations to another company.

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59
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Spinoff

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Strategy of setting up one or more corporate units as new, independent corporations.

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Strategic Alliance

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An enterprise in which two or more persons or companies temporarily join forces to undertake a particular project.

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Ethics

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Individual standards or moral values regarding what is right and wrong or good and bad.

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Business Ethics

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Ethical or unethical behaviours by a manager or employee of an organization.

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63
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Managerial Ethics

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Standards oh behaviour that guide individual managers in their work.

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64
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Conflict of Interest

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Occurs when an activity benefits the employee at the expense of the employer.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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The idea that a business should balance its a commitments to individuals and groups that are directly affected by the organization’s activities.

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Fair-trade Movement

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A movement designed to help workers in developing countries receive fair payments for their work.

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Organizational Stakeholders

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Groups, individuals, and organizations that are directly affected by the practices of an organization and that therefore have a stake in its performance.

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Consumerism

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A social movement that seeks to protect and expand the rights of consumers in their dealings with businesses.

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Whistle-Blower

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An individual who calls attention to an unethical, illegal, and/or socially irresponsible practice on the part of a business or other organization.

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Insider Trading

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The use of confidential information to gain from the purchase or sale of stock.

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Pollution

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The introduction of harmful substances into the environment.

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72
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Recycling

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The reconversion of waste materials into useful products.

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Sustainable Development

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Activities that meet current needs, but will not put future generations at a disadvantage when they try to meet their needs.

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Social Audit

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A systematic analysis of how a firm is using funds earmarked for social-responsibility goals and how effective these expenditures have been.

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Law

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The set of rules and standards that a society agrees upon to govern the behaviour of its citizens.

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Common Law

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The unwritten law of England, derived from precedent and legal judgements.

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Statutory Law

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Written law developed by city councils, provincial legislatures, and parliament.

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Administrative Law

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The rules and regulations that government agencies and commissions develop based on their interpretations of statutory laws.

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Business Law

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Laws that specifically affect how business firms are managed.

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Contract

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An agreement between two parties to act in a specified way or to perform certain acts.

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Express Contract

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Clearly specifies the terms of an agreement.

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Implied Contract

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Specifies the necessary behaviours of the parties to the contract.

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Breach of Contract

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When one party to an agreement fails, without legal reason, to live up to the agreement’s provisions.

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Agency-principle Relationship

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Established when one party (the agent) is authorized to act on behalf of another party (the principal).

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Bailor-Bailee Relationship

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In a bailor-bailee relationship, the bailor (the property owner) gives possession of his or her property to the bailee (a custodian) but retains ownership of the item.

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Property

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Anything of tangible or intangible value that the owner has the right to possess and use.

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Real Property

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Land and any permanent buildings attached to that land.

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Personal Property

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Tangible or intangible assets other than real property.

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Deed

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A document that shows ownerships of real property.

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Lease

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Grants the use of an asset for a specified period of time in return for payment.

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Title

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Shows legal possession of a personal property.

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Warranty

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A promise that the product or service will perform as the seller has promised it will.

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Express Warranty

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A specific claim that the manufacturer makes about a product.

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Implied Warranty

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A suggestion that a product will perform as the manufacturer claims it will.

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Trademark

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The exclusive legal right to use a brand name.

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Patent

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Protects an invention or idea for a period of 20 years.

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Copyright

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Exclusive ownership rights granted to creators for the tangible expression of an idea.

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Tort

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A wrongful civil act that one party inflicts on another and that results in injury to the person’s property, or to the person’s good name.

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Intentional Tort

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A wrongful act intentionally committed.

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Negligence

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A wrongful act that inadvertently causes injury to another person.

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Product Liability

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The liability of businesses for injuries caused to product users because of negligence in design or manufacturing.

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Strict Product Liability

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The liability of businesses for injuries caused by their products even if their is no evidence of negligence in the design or manufacture of the product.

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Negotiable Instruments

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Instruments like cheques, bank drafts, and certificates of deposit that can be transferred among individuals and business firms.

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Endorsement

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Signing your name to a negotiable instrument, making it transferable to another person or organization.

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Bankruptcy

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The court-granted permission for organizations or individuals to not pay some or all of their debts.

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Insolvent Person (or company)

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One who cannot pay current obligations to creditors as they come due, or whose debts exceed their assets.

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Bankrupt Person (or company)

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One who has either made a voluntary application to start bankruptcy proceedings (voluntary bankruptcy) or has been forced by creditors into bankruptcy (involuntary bankruptcy) by a process referred to as a receiving order.

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International Law

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The very general set of co-operative agreements and guidelines established by countries to govern the actions of individuals, businesses, and nations themselves.

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Small Business

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An independently owned and managed business that does not dominate its market.

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New Venture

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A recently formed commercial organization that provides goods and/or services for sale.

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Entrepreneurship

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The process of identifying an opportunity in the marketplace and accessing the resources needed to capitalize on it.

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Entrepreneur

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A business person who accepts both the risks and opportunities involved in creating and operating a new business venture.

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Intrapreneurs

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People who create something new within an existing large firm or organization.

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Private Sector

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The part of the economy made up of companies and organizations not owned or controlled by the government.

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Sales Forecast

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An estimate of how much of a product or service will be purchased by prospective customers over a specific period.

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Franchise

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An arrangement that gives franchisees (buyers) the right to sell the product of the franchiser (the seller).

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Business Plan

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Document in which the entrepreneur summarizes her or his business strategy for the preposed new venture and how that strategy will be implemented.

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Bootstrapping

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Doing more with less.

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Collateral

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Assets that a borrower uses to secure a loan or other credit, and that are subject to seizure by the lender if the loan isn’t repaid according to the specified repayment terms.

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Incubators

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Facilities that support small businesses during their early growth phase by providing basic services, office space, legal advice, and more.

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Franchising Agreement

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Stipulates the duties and responsibilities of the franchisee and the franchiser.

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Sole Proprietorship

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Business owned and usually operated by one person who is responsible for all of its debt.

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Unlimited Liability

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A person who invests in a business is liable for all debts incurred by the business; personal possessions can be taken to pay debts.

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Partnership

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A business with two or more owners who share in the operation of the firm and in financial responsibility for the firm’s debts.

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General Partner

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A partner who is actively involved in managing the firm and has unlimited liability.

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Limited Partner

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A partner who generally does not participate actively in the business, and whose liability is limited to the amount invested in the partnership.

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Corporation

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A business considered by law to be a legal entity separate from its owners with many of the legal rights and privileges of a person; a form of business organization in which the liability of the owners is limited to their investment in the firm.

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Shareholders

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Investors who buy shares of ownership in the form of stock.

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Common Stock

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Shares whose owners usually have last claim on the corporation’s assets (after creditors and owners of preferred stock) but who have voting rights in the firm.

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Board of Directors

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A group of individuals elected by a firm’s shareholders and charged with overseeing, and taking legal responsibility for, the firm’s actions.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

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The highest-ranking executive in a company or organization.

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Public Corporation

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A business whose stock is widely held and available for sale to the general public.

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Private Corporation

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A business whose stock is held by a small group of individuals and is not usually available for sale to the general public.

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Initial Public Offering (IPO)

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Selling shares of stock in a company for the first time to a general investing public.

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Private Equity Firms

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Companies that buy publicly traded companies and then make them private.

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Income Trust

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A structure allowing companies to avoid paying corporate income tax if they distribute all or most of their earnings to investors.

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Limited Liability

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Investor liability is limited to their persona; investments in the corporation; courts cannot touch the personal assets of investors in the event that the corporation goes bankrupt.

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Stock

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A share of ownership in a corporation.

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Double Taxation

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A corporation must pay income taxes on its profits, and then shareholders must also pay personal income taxes on the dividends they receive from the corporation.

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Dividends

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The amount of money, normally a portion of the profits that is distributed to the shareholders.

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Co-operative

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An organization that is formed to benefit its owners in the form of reduced prices and/or the distribution of surpluses at year-end.

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Globalization

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Process by which the world economy is becoming a single interdependent system.

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Import

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Product made or grown abroad but sold domestically.

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Export

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Product made or grown domestically but shipped and sold abroad.

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BRICS

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A term denoting a group of 5 important and powerful emerging markets in the business world: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

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Absolute Advantage

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The ability to produce something more efficiently than any other country.

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Comparative Advantage

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The ability to produce some products more efficiently than others.

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National Competitive Advantage

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International competitive advantage stemming from a combination of factor conditions; demand conditions; related and supporting industries; and firm strategies, structures, and rivalries.

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International Competitiveness

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Competitive marketing of domestic products against foreign products.

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Balance of Trade

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The economic value of all the products that a country exports minus the economic value of all the products it imports.

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Surplus

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Situation in which country exports more than it imports, creating a favourable balance of trade.

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Deficit

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Situation in which a country’s imports exceed its exports, creating a negative balance of trade.

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Balance of Payments

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Flow of all money into or out of a country.

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Exchange Rate

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Rate at which the currency of one nation can be exchanged for the currency of another notion.

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Euro

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A common currency shared among most of the members of the European Union.

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Exporter

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Firm that distributes and sells products to one or more foreign countries.

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Importer

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Firm that buys products in foreign markets and then imports them for resale in its home country.

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International Firm

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Firm that conducts a significant portion of its business in foreign countries.

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Multinational Firm

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Firm that designs, produces, and markets products in many notions.

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Independent Agent

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Foreign individual or organization that agrees to represent an exporter’s interests.

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Licensing Arrangement

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Arrangement in which firms choose foreign individuals or organizations to manufacture or market their products in another country.

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Branch Office

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A location that an exporting firm establishes in a foreign country to sell its products more effectively.

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

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Buying or establishing tangible assets in another country.

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Quota

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A restriction by one nation on the total number of products of a certain type that can be imported from another nation.

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Embargo

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A government order forbidding exportation and/or importation of a particular product.

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Tariff

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A tax levied on imported products.

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Subsidy

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A government payment to help domestic business compete with foreign firms.

168
Q

Protectionism

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Protecting domestic business at the expense of free market competition.

169
Q

Local-Content Laws

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Laws requiring that products sold in a particular country be at least partly made in that country.

170
Q

Business-Practice Law

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Law or regulation governing business practices in given countries.

171
Q

Cartel

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Any association of producers whose purpose is to control supply of and prices for a given product.

172
Q

Dumping

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Selling a product for less abroad than in the producing nation.

173
Q

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

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International trade agreement to encourage the multilateral reduction or elimination of trade barriers.

174
Q

World Trade Organization (WTO)

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Organization through which member nations negotiate trading agreements and resolve disputes about trade policies and practices.

175
Q

European Union (EU)

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Agreement among major Western European nations to eliminate or make uniform most trade barriers affecting group members.

176
Q

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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Agreement to gradually eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

177
Q

Systems Thinking

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A model of decision-making that helps organizations effectively deal with change and adapt.

178
Q

Depression

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  • Period of 2 or more years

- Great dust bowl (1930’s)

179
Q

Anthropocene

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A period where the influence of humankind is omnipresent, and in most cases detrimental to the development of all living species on the planet.

180
Q

The 3 pillars of a social ecological system?

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  • Fairness
  • Prosperity
  • Sustainability
181
Q

How government influences business

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Government as…

  • a customer
  • a competitor
  • regulator
  • a taxation agent
  • a provider of incentives and financial assistance
  • a provider of essential services
182
Q

How business influences government

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Lobbyist (a person hired by a company or an industry to represent its interests with government officials.)

183
Q

What is supply and demand as it relates to the Canadian market economy?

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  • exchange process between buyers and sellers

- how much of what product a company offers for sale and who buys it depends on the laws of demand and supply

184
Q

How do you define research and development?

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  • provides new ideas for products, services, and processes

- Basic vs. Applied

185
Q

What is the ethical and moral responsibility of business?

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  1. Demonstrate top management commitment to values and high ethical standards
  2. Adopt written code of ethics
  3. Provide ethics training
186
Q

What does ethics mean?

A
  • Individual standards or moral values regarding what is right and wrong or good and bad
187
Q

When a company strives to be socially responsible what do they focus on?

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  1. customers
  2. employees
  3. investors
  4. suppliers
  5. communities
188
Q

Social Capital

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Networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate co-operation within or among groups.

189
Q

Important actions for entrepreneurs

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  1. Identify opportunity

2. Access resources