1. What did Arthur Anderson contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen (AA) contributed to the Enron disaster when AA consulting became its own separate entity‚ named Accenture. Revenues from consulting services surpassed revenue from auditing services. A natural competitiveness grew between the two rivals and this is where the problems began to start. Management held maximinizing revenues as their primary focus of success and promotions/bonuses were based on this factor. The CEO of AA‚ Joe
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advantage ( see for instance Barney‚ 1991 and Peteraf and Barney‚ 2003). First‚ this model assumes that firms within an industry (or within a strategic group) may be heterogeneous with respect to the bundle of resources that they control. Second‚ it assumes that resource heterogeneity may persist over time because the resources used to implement firms’ strategies are not perfectly mobile across firms (i.e.‚ some of the resources cannot be traded in factor markets and are difficult to accumulate and
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1. Briefly summarize the author’s main argument/thesis statement. Nochlin argues the importance of asking the question‚ “Why have there been no great women artists?” by offering many of it’s implications. She suggests that by simply asking this question we realize how conditioned we’ve been to accept the white Western male viewpoint as the dominant and‚ perhaps‚ even the only accepted viewpoint because it’s the only one we’ve ever known. She continues on to explain how many institutional limitations
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Abstracts • Photo Gallery • Workshops o Cybercrime Workshop o Health Care Workshop • About o About GGC o Educational Projects o Partners and Affiliates • Contact Paper 4 - Working Capital Management and Firm Performance Working Capital Management and Firm Performance: An Analysis of Ghanaian Oil Marketing Firms Solomon Kwasi Kyei University of Ghana Business School solokyei@ymail.com Purpose: Businesses face ever increasing pressure on costs and growing financing requirements as
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Why might a business firm pursue other objectives besides the objective of maximum profits? What objectives other than profit maximisation might a firm pursue? Is this possible in a competitive world? The traditional theory of business behaviour tends to make a general assumption that businesses possess the information‚ market power and motivation to set a price and output that maximises profits. Profits being defined as the difference between the total revenue received by a firm and the total
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dabznal心gement 1991 Vol. 17 No. 1 99-120 ‚ ‚ ‚ Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage JayBarney 海’xas A&M University Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management‚ Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are heterogeneously distributed across firms and that these d，胡erences are stable over time‚ this article examines the link betweenfirm resources and sustained conψeti tive advantag，ι
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University Section I: Article Summary In the article ‘Do Gay-Friendly Corporate Policies Enhance Firm Performance?’ the potential outcomes of a firm adopting gay-friendly policies‚ such as anti-discrimination policies and the extension of benefits to couples‚ are studied. When the results of the study were assessed‚ it was found that the adoption of gay-friendly policies had improved the studied firms in multiple ways. It was observed that more employees were being recruited‚ employees were staying
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SUBJECT: DESIGN COMPANY NOVARTIS HELLAS pharmaceuticals firms PEST ANALYSIS To understand the impact of the environment in any industry‚ it is imperative to consider four main factors that influence this particular political‚ economic‚ social and technological factors. It is a fact that in Greece factors are rather disproportionate influence on the functioning of a healthy market competition. The business environment is regulated by opaque procedures‚ middlemen‚ bureaucrats‚ businessmen and
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CHAPTER 18 VALUATION AND CAPITAL BUDGETING FOR THE LEVERED FIRM Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. APV is equal to the NPV of the project (i.e. the value of the project for an unlevered firm) plus the NPV of financing side effects. 2. The WACC is based on a target debt level while the APV is based on the amount of debt. 3. FTE uses levered cash flow and other methods use unlevered cash flow. 4. The WACC method does not explicitly include the interest cash
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system.” Why have minor parties been so unsuccessful? Why have minor parties been so unsuccessful? Well there are many reasons‚ including their parties way to young‚ our political system‚ and lastly different ideologies of the parties cause them to be unsuccessful as well. So to begin with‚ these minor parties are way too young. The Democratic and Republican party has been here for at least 200 years. And in those 200 or so years‚ they have continually showed ideologies that have been consistent
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