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Management: Financial, Social, and Ecological Well-Being

Authors: Dyck, Caza, and Aure

Publisher: University of Manitoba

License: CC BY-SA

Management: Financial, Social, and Ecological Well-Being has been written to be used in virtually any management principles course. While providing a complete overview of the field, this textbook is unique in presenting and comparing three approaches to management—Financial Bottom Line (FBL), Triple Bottom Line (TBL), and Social and Ecological Thought (SET)—a format that has been shown to enhance students' critical and ethical thinking. Updated and revised by an international team of authors, this edition includes inspiring opening cases and features on entrepreneurship that encourage readers to apply ideas from managerial practice.

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The Marketing Map: Navigating the Principles of Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality, and Services

Author: Dumouchel

Publisher: Thompson Rivers University

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This book serves as your guide to understanding the fundamental principles of marketing, tailored to the dynamic and multifaceted sectors of tourism, hospitality, and services. Designed to bridge theoretical concepts with practical applications, this resource aims to prepare you for success as you navigate your academic path and future career with confidence.

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Digital Entrepreneurship: Impact on Business and Society

Editors: Soltanifar, Hughes, and Göcke

Publisher: Springer

License: CC BY

This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the business world and change the way we communicate with each other. These companies use digitalization and artificial intelligence to enhance the quality of decisions and augment their business and customer operations. This book demonstrates how cloud services are continuing to evolve; how cryptocurrencies are traded in the banking industry; how platforms are created to commercialize business, and how, taken together, these developments provide new opportunities in the digitalized era. Further, it discusses a wide range of digital factors changing the way businesses operate, including artificial intelligence, chatbots, voice search, augmented and virtual reality, as well as cyber threats and data privacy management.

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Fundamentals of Business Math

Authors: Koster and Chase

Publisher: Conestoga College

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This text will provide students with learning tools to develop fundamental mathematic skills and help them to improve basic arithmetic skills and develop reasoning and problem-solving skills.

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Entrepreneurship

Authors: Laverty and Littel

Publisher: OpenStax

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.

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Principles of Financial Management

Author: Carr

Publisher: Aurora University

License: CC BY

This textbook reflects the author’s experience as a finance educator and industry practitioner and draws on foundational finance theory, applied managerial finance practice, open educational resources, and publicly available institutional data. The references listed here represent works that have influenced the author’s analytical framework, teaching approach, and application of financial concepts, rather than serving as direct sources for all explanations or examples. When possible, open-access and freely available sources are prioritized in support of the goals of open education.

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Data Analytics with Applications in Business

Author: Hearon

Publisher: Aurora University

License: CC BY

In today’s data-driven world, businesses constantly ask: How can we make optimal decisions? How can we predict what will happen next? Data analytics answers these questions and many other by transforming raw data into meaningful insights.

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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Authors: Burns, Rozeboom, and Vital

Publisher: Saint Mary's College of California

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Business Ethics and Social Responsibility introduces students to ethical decision-making and the role of social responsibility in contemporary organizational life. The text explores foundational concepts in ethical reasoning, organizational culture, stakeholder theory, corporate governance, and the intersections between business actions and environmental and social issues. Through real concepts such as conflicts of interest, corporate social responsibility, and fiduciary accountability, the book supports learners in understanding how ethical frameworks inform responsible practice in business contexts. Through applied concepts such as conflicts of interest, corporate social responsibility, and fiduciary accountability, and guided engagement with real-world cases the book supports learners in understanding how ethical frameworks inform responsible practice in business contexts.

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Principles of Managerial Accounting

Author: Jonick

Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

License: CC BY-SA

The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Principles of Managerial Accounting. Well-written and straightforward, Principles of Managerial Accounting is a needed contribution to open source pedagogy in the business education world. Written in order to directly meet the needs of her students, this textbook developed from Dr. Jonick’s years of teaching and commitment to effective pedagogy.

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Intermediate Microeconomics with Microsoft Excel - 2nd Edition

Author: Barreto

Publisher: Humberto Barreto

License: CC BY-SA

This book is based on the idea that there is a particular framework used by economists to interpret observed reality. This framework has been called the economic way of thinking, the economic approach, and the method of economics.

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