dc.contributor	Parsons, Richard	en
dc.contributor	Cortes, Anastasia	en
dc.contributor	Walz, Anita R.	en
dc.contributor	Craig, Brian	en
dc.contributor	Finney, Trevor	en
dc.contributor	De Pena, Jonathan	en
dc.contributor	Lindsay, Nina	en
dc.contributor	Soni, Sachi	en
dc.contributor.author	Skripak, Stephen J.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-11T16:51:29Z	en
dc.date.available	2016-05-11T16:51:29Z	en
dc.date.issued	2016-05	en
dc.description.abstract	<b><i>Fundamentals of Business</b></i> (2016) is an openly licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">(CC BY NC SA 3.0)</a> textbook designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business. <b>A new version of this book was released in August 2018.</b> See <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848">http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848</a> for more details. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand a little more about your use by filling out this form <a href="http://bit.ly/business-interest">http://bit.ly/business-interest</a>. Share and find ancillary resources for this book at <a href="https://www.oercommons.org/groups/fundamentals-of-business-user-group/1379">OER Commons</a>. Questions? Comments? Did you adopt this book? Please contact the project manager at <a href="mailto:openeducation@vt.edu">openeducation@vt.edu</a>. <b><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93404">A testbank is now available by request for this book</a>.</b> The testbank is available to any instructor who has adopted Fundamentals of Business in their course. This work is a project of University Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. <b>Lead:</b> Stephen J. Skripak (adapter) <br><b>Contributors:</b> Richard Parsons, Anastasia Cortes, Anita Walz <br><b>Layout:</b> Anastasia Cortes <br><b>Selected graphics:</b> Brian Craig http://bcraigdesign.com <br><b>Cover design:</b> Trevor Finney <br><b>Student Reviewers:</b> Jonathan De Pena, Nina Lindsay, Sachi Soni <br><b>Project Manager:</b> Anita Walz Editable files are available in MSWord in the .zip folder. Please view the README.txt file within this zipped collection. Print-on-demand softcover versions of this work are available at the cost of manufacturing and shipping from Lulu Press: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-j-skripak/fundamentals-of-business-color/paperback/product-22830789.html">color</a> \| <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-j-skripak/fundamentals-of-business-black-white/paperback/product-22826580.html">black & white</a>. Selected graphics produced by Brian Craig are available <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a> via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Figures_from_Fundamentals_of_Business_by_Skripak">WikimediaCommons</a>. ISBN: (B&W): 978-0-9979201-1-6 <br>ISBN: (Color): 978-0-9979201-0-9 <b>Table of Contents</b> <br>Preface: Teamwork in Business <br>Chapter 1: The Foundations of Business <br>Chapter 2: Economics and Business <br>Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility <br>Chapter 4: Business in a Global Environment <br>Chapter 5: Forms of Business Ownership <br>Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business <br>Chapter 7: Management and Leadership <br>Chapter 8: Structuring Organizations <br>Chapter 9: Operations Management <br>Chapter 10: Motivating Employees <br>Chapter 11: Managing Human Resources <br>Chapter 12: Union/Management Issues <br>Chapter 13: Marketing: Providing Value to Customers <br>Chapter 14: Pricing Strategy <br>Chapter 15: Hospitality and Tourism <br>Chapter 16: Accounting and Financial Information <br>Chapter 17: Personal Finances To request access to the permissions files, please contact <a href="mailto:vtechworks@vt.edu">vtechworks@vt.edu</a>.	en
dc.description.notes	Chapter 15 is licensed CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and was adapted by Richard Parsons from https://opentextbc.ca/introtourism Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC. All other chapters are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 and were adapted by Stephen J. Skripak from http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Exploring%20Business.pdf. Lead Author: Stephen J. Skripak with Richard Parsons Project Manager: Anita Walz Graphic Design: Brian Craig http://bcraigdesign.com Layout: Anastasia Cortes Student Reviewers: Jonathan De Pena, Sachi Soni, Nina Lindsay This work is a project of University Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech May 2016 This book is dedicated to reducing the cost of education in business. – S. Skripak	en
dc.description.notes	Contains front cover (PDF/A and MS Word), full text (PDF/A and MS Word), and compressed PDF (which contains the front cover and the full text).	en
dc.description.notes	Included are both the final published version of this textbook, as well as an editable version of the textbook that can be downloaded as a Word document.	en
dc.description.tableofcontents	TABLE OF CONTENTS <br />Preface: Teamwork in Business <br />Chapter 1: The Foundations of Business <br />Chapter 2: Economics and Business <br />Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility <br />Chapter 4: Business in a Global Environment <br />Chapter 5: Forms of Business Ownership <br />Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business <br />Chapter 7: Management and Leadership <br />Chapter 8: Structuring Organizations <br />Chapter 9: Operations Management <br />Chapter 10: Motivating Employees <br />Chapter 11: Managing Human Resources <br />Chapter 12: Union/Management Issues <br />Chapter 13: Marketing: Providing Value to Customers <br />Chapter 14: Pricing Strategy <br />Chapter 15: Hospitality and Tourism <br />Chapter 16: Accounting and Financial Information <br />Chapter 17: Personal Finances	en
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7294/W4KW5CX4	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9979201-1-6	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9979201-0-9	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	en
dc.subject	business	en
dc.subject	Management	en
dc.subject	Teaching	en
dc.subject	Textbooks	en
dc.subject	Open Educational Resources	en
dc.subject	MGT 1104	en
dc.subject	OER	en
dc.subject	Intro to business	en
dc.subject	Foundations of Business	en
dc.subject	Free textbooks	en
dc.subject	Introduction to business	en
dc.title	Fundamentals of Business	en
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