Economics and Business

Professor Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada.
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Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. Written from a truly international perspective, it explains the ethical challenges faced by business in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world. It is the only text on the market that fully considers the implications of three major ethical challenges facing business: corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability.   (Read more)

Jim Grieves has been a guest speaker on the practice of organizational development and managing change at international organizations and international conferences. He has undertaken consultancy and training for organizations in the public and private sectors.
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The target market for this text consists primarily of postgraduate and post-experience students (including executive training courses); the book may also be of interest to higher level undergraduates.   (Read more)

Andrew Gillespie is Head of Business Studies and Accounts, d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, and Visiting lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. He is the author of Foundations of Economics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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What determines the demand for products? Why do some businesses succeed and others fail? How do managers establish a pricing strategy? In the world of business, the ability to understand economic issues is crucial to making successful business decisions.   (Read more)

Simon Benninga

Finance is a topic that requires much computation, and in today's business world that computation is almost entirely done using Microsoft Excel. Despite this, existing finance textbooks continue to rely heavily on hand calculators, and business school students - whose background in Excel is often weak when they come into finance courses - find that when they leave the academic environment they have to relearn both finance and Excel.   (Read more)