BUS 637 and 638 Week 5,6 Discussion 1 & 2

Week 6 - Discussion Forum 2

Required Resources

Text

Glackin, C., & Mariotti, S. (2020).  Entrepreneurship: Starting and operating a small business  (5th ed.). Pearson.

· Unit 4: Operating A Small Business Effectively

· Chapter 11: Addressing Legal Issues and Managing Risk

· Chapter 12: Operating for Success

· Chapter 13: Management, Leadership, and Ethical Practices

· The full-text version of this ebook is available through your online classroom. This book is a comprehensive text on entrepreneurship in small companies and how to start and run a business. Chapters 11 through 13 discuss the legal issues in running a business and how to follow ethical practices. These chapters will assist you in your Legal: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) discussion forum, Ethics and Cultural Decision Making assignment, and Intrapreneur and the Entrepreneur Analysis final presentation this week.

Article

Jones, T. M., Felps, W., & Bigley, G. A. (2007). Ethical theory and stakeholder-related decisions: The role of stakeholder culture. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 137–155. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2007.23463924

· The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about the relationship between organizational culture and the decision-making process, and it will assist you in your Ethics and Cultural Decision Making assignment this week.

Website

PCI Security Standards Council. (n.d.).  PCI Security Standards Council (Links to an external site.). https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/

· This website provides information about security standards promulgated by the Payment Card Industry Council designed to protect data supplied to merchants by credit card customers, and it will assist you in your Legal: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) discussion forum this week Accessibility Statement does not exist. Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)

 

Recommended Resources

Book

Thomas, K. (2010).  Ultimate book of business and legal forms for startups: 200+ downloadable forms and spreadsheets . Entrepreneur Press.

· The full-text version of this ebook is available through Ebook Central database in the Ashford University Library. This book provides information about law for entrepreneurs, and it may assist you in your Legal: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) discussion forum this week.

Article

Muhammed, A. (2017, February 4). Nine common legal mistakes small business owners make (Links to an external site.). Entrepreneur. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/288649

· This article provides information about operations for entrepreneurs, and it may assist you in your Operations Template discussion forum this week. Accessibility Statement does not exist. Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)

Website

The Law Entrepreneur. (n.d.).  The Law Entrepreneur . http://thelawentrepreneur.com/

· This website provides information about law for entrepreneurs and may assist you in your Legal: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) discussion forum his week. Accessibility Statement does not exist. Privacy Policy

Instruction

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Unit 4: Operating a Small Business Effectively from your course textbook. Operating a business for success requires many activities, and a mandatory activity is creating, testing, and maintaining a comprehensive business continuity plan. Regardless of the size of the business, management must be prepared to effectively cope with business disruptions. Failure to do so might end the business.

Perform a web search, as well as a search in the Ashford University Library, for information about small business continuity planning. Then, address the following in your discussion post:

· Find a template that appeals to you and provide a link to the template so others may view and critique the template.

· Critique the template as a tool appropriate for proposing preventive and remedial actions for business interruptions common to the area in which you might operate, for example, chronic flooding.

· Estimate how often to test your business continuity plan.

· Defend your estimate.

· Critique templates and test frequency estimates provided by two of your colleagues.

Offer a link to a video or an article that provides additional information business continuity planning an entrepreneur might find informative.