Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business
Christian Durant, a student at Leland University, worked his way through college at a local retailer, Stearns and Company. Though he studied history at Leland, he completed a minor in business and upon graduation moved into the management training program at Stearns and Company. Years later, serving as a store manager, Christian marries Leigh Whitfield and is approached by an old friend, Scott Pierce, with an opportunity to join him in a start-up manufacturing business. Christian and Leigh join their friends--Scott and his wife, Carol--as they learn more than they thought imaginable about starting and managing a business. Then tragedy strikes. Scott is killed in a mysterious accident, the business suffers setbacks, and friendships are stressed to the point of breaking. Christian faces a crisis, professionally and personally, and seeks answers that lead him ultimately to a newfound faith and peace. Christian and Leigh weigh the possibilities of selling their interest in the business and starting over. Meanwhile, the investigation into the death of Scott Pierce uncovers surprises that no one expected . . . Opportunity is a textbook introducing free enterprise and business principles in story form, complete with the suspense and intrigue of a novel. This "novel text" integrates a survey of business disciplines with a biblical worldview. In enlightening ways the book explores the integration of faith and ethics. As the story engages readers, it also teaches principles of free enterprise and business.
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Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business
Christian Durant, a student at Leland University, worked his way through college at a local retailer, Stearns and Company. Though he studied history at Leland, he completed a minor in business and upon graduation moved into the management training program at Stearns and Company. Years later, serving as a store manager, Christian marries Leigh Whitfield and is approached by an old friend, Scott Pierce, with an opportunity to join him in a start-up manufacturing business. Christian and Leigh join their friends--Scott and his wife, Carol--as they learn more than they thought imaginable about starting and managing a business. Then tragedy strikes. Scott is killed in a mysterious accident, the business suffers setbacks, and friendships are stressed to the point of breaking. Christian faces a crisis, professionally and personally, and seeks answers that lead him ultimately to a newfound faith and peace. Christian and Leigh weigh the possibilities of selling their interest in the business and starting over. Meanwhile, the investigation into the death of Scott Pierce uncovers surprises that no one expected . . . Opportunity is a textbook introducing free enterprise and business principles in story form, complete with the suspense and intrigue of a novel. This "novel text" integrates a survey of business disciplines with a biblical worldview. In enlightening ways the book explores the integration of faith and ethics. As the story engages readers, it also teaches principles of free enterprise and business.
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Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business

Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business

by David W. Whitlock
Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business

Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business

by David W. Whitlock

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Overview

Christian Durant, a student at Leland University, worked his way through college at a local retailer, Stearns and Company. Though he studied history at Leland, he completed a minor in business and upon graduation moved into the management training program at Stearns and Company. Years later, serving as a store manager, Christian marries Leigh Whitfield and is approached by an old friend, Scott Pierce, with an opportunity to join him in a start-up manufacturing business. Christian and Leigh join their friends--Scott and his wife, Carol--as they learn more than they thought imaginable about starting and managing a business. Then tragedy strikes. Scott is killed in a mysterious accident, the business suffers setbacks, and friendships are stressed to the point of breaking. Christian faces a crisis, professionally and personally, and seeks answers that lead him ultimately to a newfound faith and peace. Christian and Leigh weigh the possibilities of selling their interest in the business and starting over. Meanwhile, the investigation into the death of Scott Pierce uncovers surprises that no one expected . . . Opportunity is a textbook introducing free enterprise and business principles in story form, complete with the suspense and intrigue of a novel. This "novel text" integrates a survey of business disciplines with a biblical worldview. In enlightening ways the book explores the integration of faith and ethics. As the story engages readers, it also teaches principles of free enterprise and business.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725243934
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 05/03/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 326
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

David Whitlock is Associate Provost, Dean of the College of Business and Computer Science, and Professor of Business at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.
He has taught business and leadership for over twenty years. Whitlock is also an ordained bivocational minister. He now serves Wellspring Fellowship in Bolivar, Missouri. He and his wife, Dana, have four sons: Joshua, Ryan, David, and Landon.
David Wesley Whitlock serves as the Associate Provost at Southwest Baptist University and is a bivocational minister, serving Wellspring Fellowship in Bolivar, Missouri. His previous books with Wipf and Stock Publishers/Resource Publications include Opportunity: Introducing Free Enterprise and Business, and two books coedited with Gordon Dutile: A Noble Calling: Devotions and Essays for Business Professionals, and Psalm 15: Integrating Faith and Work. He and his wife, Dana, have four sons.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     xiii
Reviewers     xiii
Preface     xv
Prologue: Gold & Opportunity     1
A New Start     11
In Good Form     25
Something Ventured     47
Managing as a Servant Leader     73
Meeting Needs through Marketing     95
Competition and Economics     113
Accountability and Accounting     139
Markets, Money, and Finance     161
Setting Your Personal Financial House in Order     185
Global Options     211
Technical Solutions     235
Being Responsible     257
Epilogue: What's Next?     283
Index     291
Scripture Index     325
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