Alena Brown Internet Paper #4 12/4/2012 Article: BP stops oil leak in Gulf of Mexico for first time since April Author: Suzanne Goldenberg Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-spill-leak-stopped The safety issue that I chose was the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The BP oil spill was the largest oil spill in United States history. This oil spill occurred due to a methane leak‚ and an explosion‚ causing a fire aboard an offshore oil drilling rig. The
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profits. Leading the charge are the world ’s largest integrated oil companies: Exxon Mobil‚ BP‚ and Royal Dutch/Shell (Yahoo Finance‚ Industry Profile). British Petroleum (BP) is of one of the world ’s largest energy companies‚ providing its customers with fuel for transportation‚ energy for heat and light‚ retail services and petrochemical products for everyday items. Incorporated in 1909 in Great Britain‚ BP has transformed from a local oil company into a global energy group with four main businesses:
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1. Introduction This report will identify a crisis facing BP company‚ the Gulf of Mexico spill‚ and investigate how the organization response to the society. In this report‚ it will use Legitimacy theory to explain BP’s response to this event. Legitimacy theory can be treated as a explanation for voluntary corporate disclosures in annual report. As (Dowling&Pfeffer‚ 1975) says a corporation must act in congruence with norms and society value. First of all‚ Legitimacy theory is based on the
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TOPIC: THE CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING (BP) IS UNPARALLELED.THAT IS AN ETHICAL CRISIS IS UNCHALLENGING.BUT IS IT REALLY A CASE OF THE OIL INDUSTRY? BEING AT FAULT? IS IT REALLY A REGULATORY ISSUE? BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF BRITISH PETROLEUM
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动态内存分配实验报告 Malloc Lab (Dynamic Storage Allocators) 07300720035 电子信息科学与技术 王泮渠 （Department of Electrical Engineering‚ Chris Wang) 2010.01.02 INTRODUCTION In this lab you will be writing a dynamic storage allocator for C program‚i.e.‚your own version of the malloc‚ free and realloc routines. You are encouraged to explore the design space creatively and implement an allocator that is correct‚ efficient and fast. PREPARATIONS Read the introduction of malloc_lab carefully and think about
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Assignment 1. Describe the product line strategy of the Barco Projection Systems Division? BPS has followed a market segment based product line. BPS differentiated these segments based on the scan rate of the projectors. Video segment projectors had scan rates of 16 kHz‚ data projectors had scan rates ranging from 16 to 45 kHz and graphics projectors at the higher end had rates from 16 to above 64 kHz. BPS was the leader in the graphics projection segment which was a niche market. Historically
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each level in the organization in order to be implemented. In this paper the leader decision making-process will be explored‚ through an example concerning the resolution of the deep water horizon disaster (BP Oil spill)‚ presided over by President Barack Obama and Tony Hayward (Ex-CEO of BP).[1] Then‚ we will see how decision processes can come along - either through advocacy or inquiry.
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high-end industrial market. Barco Projection System (BPS) virtually enjoyed the fruit of its dedication on technologically superior projectors‚ however‚ the projector market encountered an unexpected (in light of BPS) new product 1270 "superdata" projector (1270) from Sony. Introduced at Siggraph trade show in 3rd quarter of 1989‚ 1270 showed its superiority in brightness‚ image quality‚ and resolution to the counter product of BPS. Since BPS couldn’t expect a competing product like 1270‚ both
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that British Petroleum (BP) adopts with specific focus on the Deep-water Horizon offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. BP will be assessing using varied strategic theories and strategic choices will be suggested. It is commissioned for Carl-Henric Svanberg‚ BP ’s chairman. Brief Company Profile BP is the third largest energy producers in the world. The business is integrated in finding‚ extracting and supplying oil‚ gas and petroleum. BP was privatised in 1980 ’s
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BP ’s Marketing Strategy in Changing Business Environment 1. Introduction Multinational corporations operating in complex and diverse political‚ economic‚ social and cultural environments have to improve‚ adjust and develop their marketing strategies on a regular basis (Bamberg‚ 2009:46). Changing environmental factors create new conditions for their operating‚ which often require considerable and serious changes in strategic decision-making and positioning of companies. Inflexible and
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