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Edition  \nBUSINESS FACULTY FROM ONTARIO COLLEGES ANDECAMPUSONTARIO PROGRAM MANAGERS  \nECAMPUSONTARIO  \nFundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition by Pamplin College of Business and Virgina Tech Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.  \nDedication  \nOne of the original authors, Stephen J. Skripak, dedicated this book to reducing the cost of education in business.  \neCampusOntario, sponsor of the Canadian edition, dedicates this book to adventurous Ontario instructors of business exploring open resources and committing to saving students money. eCampusOntario and your colleagues from Lambton, Conestoga, and Fanshawe colleges are hopeful the updates to this book and its attention to Ontario standards and Canadian content make Business Fundamemtals a valuable addition to your course.  \nIf you adopt this book, as a core or supplemental resource, please report your adoption in order for us to celebrate your support of students’ savings. Report your commitment at www.openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca.  \nWe invite you to further adapt this book to meet you and your students’ needs. Please let us know if you do! If you would like to use Pressbooks, the platform used to make this book, contact eCampusOntario for an account using  \nopen@ecampusontario.ca.  \nIf this text does not meet your needs, please check out our other adaptation, Communication for Business Professionals. Use, mix, match, and/or extend them with other, open business materials to customize your learning  \nmaterials.  \nOpen textbooks by Giulia Forsythe licensed CC BY | flickr  \nContents  \nCanadian Edition 2018 1  \nFundamentals of Business  1  \nAcknowledgements 4  \nThe Original from Virginia Tech 2016 4  \nAcknowledgements: eCampusOntario 5  \nPreface 6  \nPart I. Chapters  \n1. Teamwork in Business 9  \nLearning Objectives 9  \nShow What You Know 9  \nThe Team and the Organization 10  \nWhy Organizations Build Teams 10  \nWhy Teamwork Works 14  \nThe Team and Its Members 16  \nKey Takeaways 23  \n2. Foundations of Business 24  \nLearning Objectives 24  \nShow What You Know 24  \nWhy Is Apple Successful? 25  \nGetting Down to Business 27  \nFunctional Areas of Business 29  \nExternal Forces that Influence Business Activities 31  \nKey Takeaways 33  \n3. Economics and Business 34  \nLearning Objectives 34  \nShow What You Know 34  \nWhat is Economics? 35  \nPerfect Competition and Supply and Demand 39  \nMonopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Monopoly 41  \nMeasuring the Health of the Economy 43  \nGovernment’s Role in Managing the Economy 50  \nKey Takeaways 52  \n4. 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Forms of Business Ownership 111  \nLearning Objectives 111  \n Show What You Know 111  \nThe Ice Cream Men 112  \nThe Canadian Landscape 112  \nFactors to Consider 113  \nMergers and Acquisitions 122  \nKey Takeaways 126  \n7. Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business 127  \nLearning Objectives 127  \nShow What You Know 127  \nArts and Crafts for Adults: Collective Beer 128  \nThe Nature of Entrepreneurship 129  \nThe Importance of Small Business to the Canadian Economy 132  \nWhat Industries Are Smal","cbCaimat4R10npua","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimat4R10npua","pdf",10914056,312,"English","# Canadian Edition 2018\n## Fundamentals of Business\n## Acknowledgements\n## Preface\n# Part I. 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