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ch.22
Term | Definition |
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Sole Proprietorship | a business owned and operated by a single person. |
Financial Capital | money used to buy the tools and equipment used in production. |
Partnership | a business owned by two or more people. |
Articles of Partnership | formal legal papers specifying the arrangement between partners. |
Corporation | type of business organization owned by many people but treated by law as thought it were a person. |
Charter | a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments; or a government document granting permission to organize a corporation. |
Stock | ownership share of a corporation. |
Stockholder | an individual who has invested in a corporation and owns some of its stock. |
Board of Directors | people elected by the shareholders of a corporation to act on their behalf. |
Cooperative | a voluntary association of people formed to carry on some kind of economic activity that will benefit its members |
Labor Union | association of workers organized to improve wages and working conditions. |
Right-to-work Law | state laws forbidding unions from forcing workers to join. |
Collective Bargaining | Process by which unions and employers negotiate the conditions of employment. |
Mediation | situation in which union and company officials bring in a third party to try to help them reach an agreement. |
Arbitration | situation in which union and company officials submit the issues they cannot agree on to a third party for a final decision. |
Strike | when workers deliberately stop working in order to force an employer to give in to their demands. |
Boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods. |
Transparency | process of making business deals more visible to everyone. |
Discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group. |
Social Responsiblity | the obligation a business has to pursue goals that benefit society as well as themselves. |