Business Law Contents

Business Law

1. Part One: Introduction to the Law and the Legal Environment of Business
   
   
   
   1. Critical Thinking and Legal Reasoning
      
   2. Introduction to Law and the Legal Environment of Business
      
   3. The American Legal System
      
   4. Alternative Tools of Dispute Resolution
      
   5. Constitutional Principals
      
   6. Cyberlaw and Business
      
   7. White-Collar Crime and the Business Community
      
   8. Ethics, Social Responsibility, and the Business Manager
      
   9. The International Legal Environment of Business
      
   
   
2. Part Two: Private Law and the Legal Environment of Business
   
   
   
   1. The Law of Contracts and Sales I
      
   2. The Law of Contracts and Sales II
      
   3. The Law of Torts
      
   4. Product and Service Liability Law
      
   5. Law of Property: Real, Personal, and Intellectual
      
   6. Agency Law
      
   7. Law and Business Associations
      
   
   
3. Part Three: Public Law and the Legal Environment of Business
   
   
   
   1. The Law of Administrative Agencies
      
   2. The Employment Relationship
      
   3. Laws Governing Labor; Management Relations
      
   4. Employment Discrimination
      
   5. Environmental Law
      
   6. Rules Governing the Issuance and Trading of Securities
      
   7. Antitrust Laws
      
   8. Laws of Debtor-Creditor Relations and Consumer Protection
      
   
   

• Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States
  
• Appendix B: Uniform Commercial Code (2000 Official Text), Article 2
  

Demand for ERP professionals rising

Many big corporations use an ERP system to manage their business. ERP, short for enterprise resource planning, is computer software that manages nearly every aspect of a manufacturing or merchandising business. ERP covers everything from order fulfillment, manufacturing, supply chain management, warehouse management, accounting, billing, human resources, to customer resource management. Proficiency in ERP imply being knowledgeable in overall flow of the entire enterprise. Therefore, nowadays new top-level corporate managers are often required to have proficiency in an ERP system. In fact, some MBA courses require you to take an ERP course such as SAP.

At the core of an ERP system is an enterprise-level database. Several companies compete for the ERP software market, namely SAP and Oracle. Being the software that controls fortune 500 companies, it's hard to get your hands on a copy of ERP. But, fortunately there are open-source ERP software, such as Compiere and Adempiere.

A modern business requires computerized information system to manage the business. Small businesses can do well with Microsoft Office and Quickbooks. But when the business expands and grows bigger, it needs an integrated information system such as ERP. Well, if you are interested in building integrated IT system for your business, you might as well get started with ERP such as Adempiere.

Wal-Mart Thrives On Bad Economy

It's Black Friday, and, as usual, people rushed to Wal-mart since the early morning to grab bargains on Black Friday sale. It's really amazing to see the crowd at Wal-mart. To the contrary, other stores are seeing few customers.

Wal-mart may be providing local people with el cheapo goods, but it doesn't do any good for local businesses who suffer a lot from the bad economy. Well, there's not much legal protection for small local retailers against big-box stores.

Of course, who wouldn't like buying stuffs at a bargain price? Holiday shopping season is just beginning and it's all about sales. People would expect nearly every store to have a holiday sale. But we are in the midst of credit crunch and both consumers and small businesses are low in cash and have hard time getting loans. In this crisis, only those with deep pockets will do well. It is a pity to see local bussinesses hurt in this bad economy while Wal-mart thrives.

Local Business Good, Walmart BAD! @ Yahoo! Video

Outlook on eBook Business

I've been aware of ebooks since long ago. In fact, I was scouring the
Internet for ebooks of all sorts, including literature and technical
books years ago. I haven't been collecting ebooks for quite a while,
but when I checked recently for an economy textbook, I found tons of
ebooks, including various collegiate books. That's intellectual bonanza.



Anyway,
what I am trying to say is, is it reasonably feasible to make profits
from ebooks? Just take a look at all the publications and audio books
circulating in the IRC networks and sharing networks.



When
a publisher sends manuscripts of books in PDF form to a printing house,
some of these manuscripts get leaked to the Internet. Even if the
manuscripts are in encrypted PDF form, it's possible to break the encryption. Years back, there was one hacker who succeeded in breaking the encryption but got arrested by FBI (Poor guy, what about freedom of speech).



However,
if someone becomes successful in selling ebooks for reading on cell
phones or iPods, ebooks can possibly become a profitable trend.



Recent rampant success of Apple iPhone and its App Store
has opened opportunities for many entrepreneurs. I don't own an iPhone,
hence I don't know what's available in the iPhone App Store. But
piggybacking on iPhone madness, developing an ebook reader for iPhone
and making deals with publishers or even wanna-be writers might be a
good business idea.



Anyway, if you are into serious classic literature without much concern for modern recyclable literary garbages, I recommend Project Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a wonderful philanthropic repository of copyright-free literature.