Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (2018) is an 372-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses.

Provides a comprehensive discussion of business concepts that introduces the student to the fundamentals that is part of Lumen Learning courseware.

Designed to introduce students to the essential concepts of business and other organizations. Focus is on small, entrepreneurial start-ups, and expanding the discussion in each chapter to include issues that are faced in larger organizations when it is appropriate to do so.

Provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

Designed with a “less can be more” approach, and treats small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.

Provides exploration into building, leading, and thriving in global organizations in an increasingly flat world.

Covers the broad spectrum of legal issues that entrepreneurs must understand when starting and running a business.

Exploring Business is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.