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Q: (p. 128) Define the service principle.

Q: E-commerce 2.0 is based primarily on blogs and corporate-sponsored collaboration.

Q: (p. 128) Who were corporate trustees?

Q: The first generation of EC involves social networks, virtual worlds, and online transactions.

Q: (p. 126) Define social Darwinism in the context of corporate social responsibility.

Q: (p. 105-106) Summarize the rise of neoliberalism.

Q: Despite the failures of individual companies and initiatives, the total volume of EC has been growing each year.

Q: (p. 104-105) What is meant by liberalism, economic liberalism, Keynesianism, and neoliberalism?

Q: S-commerce refers to electronic commerce activities conducted on Facebook or influenced by the site.

Q: (p. 102-103) Describe the views of the old Progressives and the new Progressives. What are the three basic beliefs that prompt them to act?

Q: If a company purchases Godiva chocolates as gifts for its employees and has Godiva mail them directly to the recipient, the company is engaged in B2B2C.

Q: (p. 95-97) Discuss the concept of socialism. Who is the originator of modern socialist doctrine? What were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' views on socialism?

Q: Today, over 90 percent of EC volume is B2C.

Q: Network infrastructures include cell phones and other electronic devices that are located in various locations by telecommunications networks, including wireless ones.

Q: (p. 95) Discuss the progressive reform movement in America.

Q: Net-a-Porter buying merchandise from its designers is an example of B2B commerce.

Q: (p. 93-94) Describe the populist movement in America.

Q: Purchasing a computer from dell.com is an example of B2B commerce.

Q: (p. 88-89) How did the attitude toward business change during the modern era?

Q: Selling and buying electronically can be either business-to-consumer or business-to-business.

Q: (p. 88) Explain the prevailing theology of the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

Q: An extranet is a network that uses private corporate networks to link together multiple intranets.

Q: (p. 87) Discuss Plato's and Aristotle's views on commercial activity.

Q: A brick-and-mortar organization performs its primary business offline, selling physical products by means of physical agents.

Q: (p. 86-87) Discuss the ancient agrarian societies of Greece and Rome.

Q: Buying an e-book from Amazon is an example of partial electronic commerce.

Q: (p. 92) Define utopia.

Q: Electronic commerce is the process of buying, selling, or exchanging products, services, or information via computer.

Q: (p. 88) What is the Protestant ethic?

Q: (p. 73-74) According to the theory of pluralism, what are the boundaries of managerial power?

Q: (p. 71-73) Why is the American society considered to be a pluralistic society?

Q: (p. 69-71) Discuss Domhoff's, Dye's, and Rothkopf's views on elite dominance.

Q: (p. 69) Discuss sociologist C. Wright Mill's views on the theory of the power elite.

Q: (p. 65-66) What are merger waves? What was the main impetus for the 1895-1904 wave?

Q: (p. 64-65) Briefly discuss the dominance theory.

Q: (p. 63) How did the introduction of railroads change American politics?

Q: (p. 59-61) On both the surface and deep levels, business power is exercised in spheres corresponding to the seven business environments. Discuss with examples.

Q: (p. 58) Explain in brief the concept of business power.

Q: (p. 71) Define a pluralistic society.

Q: (p. 69) Define the concept of elite dominance.

Q: (p. 42-43) Discuss the five trends in the legal environment that restrain business behavior.

Q: (p. 39-40) How does the cultural environment create change in the relationships between business, governments, and societies?

Q: (p. 32-33) Discuss the impact of globalization over the years.

Q: (p. 31) Discuss in brief the waves of innovation that have taken place since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Q: (p. 30-31) How has technology impacted societies? What will be the impact of new technologies?

Q: (p. 30) What are the factors that will drive future population changes? Discuss the implications of these population trends.

Q: (p. 25-28) Discuss the problem of global income inequality.

Q: (p. 25) Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?

Q: (p. 29) What is replacement fertility rate?

Q: (p. 659-663) What are the major shortcomings of CEO compensation?

Q: (p. 656) Explain what is meant by stock options and how these options work and are typically used within a corporation.

Q: (p. 652) Describe the typical duties of boards of directors for U.S. corporations.

Q: (p. 650-651) Discuss some of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Q: (p. 645) List three provisions that were set forth in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Q: (p. 639) Discuss the advantages that management has over shareholders.

Q: (p. 19) Discuss the arguments against the stakeholder model.

Q: (p. 16-17) Discuss the stakeholder model of the BGS relationship.

Q: (p. 15) What is the countervailing forces model in the BGS relationship?

Q: (p. 12-13) Describe the dominance model.

Q: (p. 9-13) Discuss the market capitalism model and explain how it differs from the dominance model.

Q: (p. 7-8) Discuss the importance of the BGS field.

Q: (p. 634-635) Explain what a corporate charter allows a corporation to do.

Q: (p. 607-608) Define sexual harassment, quid pro quo, and hostile environment.

Q: (p. 601-602) What are the three affirmative action debates? Explain them in brief.

Q: (p. 598) Discuss Executive Order 11246. How is it enforced?

Q: (p. 597) What is the 80 percent rule? Explain an example.

Q: (p. 595-596) Define disparate treatment, disparate impact, and business necessity.

Q: (p. 594-595) What changes were brought about by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Q: (p. 591-592) What were the Civil Rights Cases? How did the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson affect the Fourteenth Amendment?

Q: (p. 590) What were the employment discriminations that the Chinese laborers faced in the United States during 1850 to 1885?

Q: (p. 589) What is racism?

Q: (p. 572-573) What are the core labor standards? Define labor flexibility.

Q: (p. 571) Discuss the worker protection scenario in Germany.

Q: (p. 569-570) What is the worker protection scenario in Japan?

Q: (p. 567-568) Discuss employment-at-will doctrine. What are the three major common-law exceptions to firing at will?

Q: (p. 564) What changes did the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act bring?

Q: (p. 563-564) What was the doctrine of liberty of contract? What was its greatest flaw?

Q: (p. 556-557) What are structural changes? What are the structural changes that American society has undergone?

Q: (p. 552) What are the six environmental forces that create most of the turbulence in the workplace?

Q: (p. 553) Define replacement fertility rate.