Business & Society (17th Ed, ISBN
9781264080915) – Complete Test Bank
with Answers & Rationales
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Chapter 2: Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships
Chapter 3: Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship
Chapter 4: Business in a Globalized World
Chapter 5: Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 6: Organizational Ethics
Chapter 7: Business–Government Relations
Chapter 8: Influencing the Political Environment
Chapter 9: Sustainable Development and Global Business
Chapter 10: Managing for Sustainability
Chapter 11: The Role of Technology
Chapter 12: Regulating and Managing Technology
Chapter 13: Shareholder Rights and Corporate Governance
Chapter 14: Consumer Protection
Chapter 15: Employees and the Corporation
Chapter 16: Managing a Diverse Workforce
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
,Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a
service for a profit.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The term stakeholder refers exclusively to the founders of a business organization.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Businesses and society are independent of each other.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to
create long-term value for its shareholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that
companies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of
multiple groups in society.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The normative argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that the
stakeholder view is simply a more realistic description of how companies really
work.
⊚ true
⊚ false
, 7) Nonmarket stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the
company as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and
services.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Market stakeholders include nongovernmental organizations and business support
groups.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Government can be considered both a market and a nonmarket stakeholder.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The interests of different stakeholders often coincide.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The first step of stakeholder analysis is to identify relevant stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Some scholars have suggested that managers pay the most attention to
stakeholders possessing the least salience.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The organization of a corporation’s boundary-spanning functions is complex.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) Businesses are increasingly trying to meet their commitments to multiple
stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) The external environment of business is static.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9781264080915) – Complete Test Bank
with Answers & Rationales
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Chapter 2: Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships
Chapter 3: Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship
Chapter 4: Business in a Globalized World
Chapter 5: Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 6: Organizational Ethics
Chapter 7: Business–Government Relations
Chapter 8: Influencing the Political Environment
Chapter 9: Sustainable Development and Global Business
Chapter 10: Managing for Sustainability
Chapter 11: The Role of Technology
Chapter 12: Regulating and Managing Technology
Chapter 13: Shareholder Rights and Corporate Governance
Chapter 14: Consumer Protection
Chapter 15: Employees and the Corporation
Chapter 16: Managing a Diverse Workforce
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
,Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a
service for a profit.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The term stakeholder refers exclusively to the founders of a business organization.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Businesses and society are independent of each other.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to
create long-term value for its shareholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that
companies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of
multiple groups in society.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The normative argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that the
stakeholder view is simply a more realistic description of how companies really
work.
⊚ true
⊚ false
, 7) Nonmarket stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the
company as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and
services.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Market stakeholders include nongovernmental organizations and business support
groups.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Government can be considered both a market and a nonmarket stakeholder.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The interests of different stakeholders often coincide.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The first step of stakeholder analysis is to identify relevant stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Some scholars have suggested that managers pay the most attention to
stakeholders possessing the least salience.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The organization of a corporation’s boundary-spanning functions is complex.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) Businesses are increasingly trying to meet their commitments to multiple
stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) The external environment of business is static.
⊚ true
⊚ false
