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chapter 22
definitions
Question | Answer |
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Sole proprietorship | buisness owned by a single person |
financial capital | money used to buy the tools and equipmentused in production |
Article of partnership | papers specifying the arrangement between partners |
corporation | buisness owned by many people |
charter | writtten document gratning permission to organize a corperation |
stock | ownership share of a corperation |
stockholder | individual who has invested in a corperation and owns some of it stocks |
board of directors | poeople elected by the sharholders of a corperation |
cooperative | voluntary association of people |
labor union | association of workers organized to improve wages and working conditions |
right to work law | state law forbidding unions from forcing workers to join. |
collective barganing | unions and empolyers negotiate conditions of employment |
mediation | situation in which union and company officials bring in a third party to try and help them reach an agreement |
strike | when workers deliberately stop working in order to force employers to give in to their demands |
boycott | refusal to puchase certain goods |
transparenct | process of making buisness deals more visable to everyone |
discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice. |
scoial responsability | obligation a buisness has to pursue goals that benifit society as well as themselves |