Steiner & Steiner,the leading Business & Society text,is about the
interrelationships among business,government,and society and how they effect
business managers. Managers steer companies through a world continuously altered
by environmental forces that reshape the
economic,cultural,political,technological and ecological terrain on which
companies operate. Numerous stakeholders challenge traditional ideas about when
corporations are being ethical and socially responsible. These two forces create
a web of complex,challenging and threatening relationships for managers,both
domestically and internationally. Four basic analytical approaches are presented
as alternative ways of picturing the interrelationships: 1) Market Capitalism;
2) Dominance; 3) Dynamic Forces; 4) Stakeholder. The texts analytical models are
as follows : 1) Focus on Strategic Management; 2) Interdisciplinary