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Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
ANNE T. LAWRENCE, JAMES WEBER
Seventeeth Edition
,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
s
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
s
Chapter 11: The Role of Technology
s
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
s
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
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,Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
s s s s s s s
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 servic
s
e fora profit.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The term stakeholder refers exclusively to the founders of a business organization.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Businesses and society aresindependent of each other.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to create lo
ng-termvalue for its shareholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says thatsco
mpanies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of multiple gro
s
ups in society.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The normativesargument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that the stakehol
der viewis simply a more realistic description of how companies really work.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 7) Nonmarket stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the co
mpany as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and service
s s
s.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Market stakeholders include nongovernmental organizations and business support
grou ps.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Government can be considered both a market and a nonmarket stakeholder.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The interests of different stakeholderssoften coincide.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The first step of stakeholder analysis is to identify relevant stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Some scholars have suggested that managersspay the most attention to stake
holderspossessing the least salience.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The organization of a corporation’s boundary-spanning functions is complex.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) Businesses aresincreasingly trying to meet their commitments to multiple stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) The external environment of business is static.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
ANNE T. LAWRENCE, JAMES WEBER
Seventeeth Edition
,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
s
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
s
Chapter 11: The Role of Technology
s
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
s
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation
s s s
1|Page
,Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
s s s s s s s
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 servic
s
e fora profit.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The term stakeholder refers exclusively to the founders of a business organization.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Businesses and society aresindependent of each other.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to create lo
ng-termvalue for its shareholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says thatsco
mpanies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of multiple gro
s
ups in society.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The normativesargument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that the stakehol
der viewis simply a more realistic description of how companies really work.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2|Page
, 7) Nonmarket stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the co
mpany as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and service
s s
s.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Market stakeholders include nongovernmental organizations and business support
grou ps.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Government can be considered both a market and a nonmarket stakeholder.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The interests of different stakeholderssoften coincide.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The first step of stakeholder analysis is to identify relevant stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Some scholars have suggested that managersspay the most attention to stake
holderspossessing the least salience.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The organization of a corporation’s boundary-spanning functions is complex.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) Businesses aresincreasingly trying to meet their commitments to multiple stakeholders.
⊚ true
⊚ false
15) The external environment of business is static.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3|Page
