Puzzle Time (Week 3)!

3. The joining of firms in completely unrelated industries.
4. Specific geographic areas to which governments try to attract private business investment by offering lower taxes and other government support.
6. The dimension of social responsibility that includes everything from hiring minority workers to making safe products.
8. A U.S. government agency that advises and assists small businesses by providing management training and financial advice and loans.
9. Insiders who report illegal or unethical behavior.
10. The joining of two companies involved in different stages of related businesses.
15. The joining of two firms in the same industry.
16. Centers that offer new businesses low-cost offices with basic business services.
17. Individuals or companies that invest in new businesses in exchange for partial ownership of those businesses.
20. An unethical activity in which insiders use private company information to further their own fortunes or those of their family and friends.
22. A person who buys a franchise.
24. The responsibility of a business’s owners for losses only up to the amount they invest; limited partners and shareholders have limited liability.

1. Accepting the risk of starting and running a business.
2. One company’s purchase of the property and obligations of another company.
3. The dimension of social responsibility that includes charitable donations.
5. The right to use a specific business’s name and sell its products or services in a given territory.
7. A business that is owned, and usually managed, by one person.
11. Entrepreneurs willing to accept the risk of starting and managing the type of business that remains small, lets them do the kind of work they want to do, and offers them a balanced lifestyle.
12. Creative people who work as entrepreneurs within corporations.
13. The result of two firms forming one company.
14. People with unsatisfied wants and needs who have both the resources and the willingness to buy.
18. An attempt by employees, management, or a group of investors to purchase an organization primarily through borrowing.
19. A company that develops a product concept and sells others the rights to make and sell the products.
21. A systematic evaluation of an organization’s progress toward implementing socially responsible and responsive programs.
23. Standards of moral behavior; that is, behavior accepted by society as right versus wrong.