Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibilities Company: Reebok International Ltd. Student Name: Jedy Wang Student #: 250476511 Teacher Assistant: Mike Dove Due Date: 11/14/2008 Executive Summary The 20th century illustrated a dispersing trend of capitalism as the end of the Cold War illustrated evident economic prosperity in Western countries. Consequently‚ many former Communist countries implemented economic reforms due to the perception that capitalism was the economic ideology
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Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity Requires the court to see through the protective shroud which exempts its stockholders from liabilities that they ordinarily would be subject to‚ or distinguishes a corporation from a seemingly separate one‚ were it not for the existing corporate fiction (Lim vs CA‚ 323 SCRA 102) Extent: The application of the doctrine to a particular case does not deny the corporation of legal personality for any and all purposes‚ but only for the particular transaction
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Enron‚ Ethics And Today’s Corporate Values Enron’s heyday has long ended. But its lessons will long endure. The global business community is now watching a painful new chapter is this saga — one where its former high-riding chief executive officer‚ Jeff Skilling‚ is getting a decade shaved off of his prison term that should now end in 2017. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The company’s failure in 2001 represents the biggest business bankruptcy ever while also spotlighting
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FAMILY BUSINESSES IN SERBIA PhD Katarina Djulic‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration‚ kdjulic@fefa.edu.rs MSc Tanja Kuzman‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration PhD Katarina Djulic is Assistant Professor at FEFA on subjects of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. She also works as Senior Consultant in KPMG Serbia. She worked as an Associate Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation‚ World Bank Group‚ on the Corporate Governance
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Corporate governance – Intended learning outcomes Students should be able to Identify different forms of corporate governance Evaluate the influence of organisational stakeholders on a firm’s purposes and performance Conduct stakeholder mapping Exhibit 4.1 Influences on strategic purpose Corporate Governance Corporate governance refers to the influence and power of the stakeholders to control the strategic direction of the organisation (Lynch‚ p.362) The chain of corporate governance:
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Lecturer responsible for AUE2602: Topic 1: Corporate Governance Ms Nicolene Coetzee Contact details: AUE2602@unisa.ac.za CORPORATE GOVERNANCE What does CORPORATE GOVERNANCE mean: It is the system or process whereby companies are directed or controlled. It follows then that: Healthy‚ honest‚ open‚ competent and responsibly controlled companies will improve the quality of modern society. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Key aspects of King III: Effective leadership * Ethical values of responsibility * Fairness
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Chapter 1 Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Goals End-of-Chapter Questions 1. Corporate goals: shareholder wealth maximization. Explain the assumptions and objectives of the shareholder wealth maximization pmodel. Answer: The Anglo-American markets have a philosophy that a firm’s objective should follow the shareholder wealth maximization (SWM) model. More specifically‚ the firm should strive to maximize the return to shareholders‚ as measured by the sum of capital gains and dividends
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Journal of Corporate Finance 11 (2005) 85 – 106 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Additions to corporate boards: the effect of gender Kathleen A. Farrell a‚*‚ Philip L. Hersch b a Department of Finance‚ University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ Lincoln‚ NE 68588-0490‚ USA b Department of Economics‚ Wichita State University‚ USA Received 1 November 2003; accepted 1 December 2003 Available online 20 April 2004 Abstract During the decade of the 1990s the number of women serving on corporate boards increased
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS People often question whether corporate boards matter because their day-today impact is difficult to observe. But‚ when things go wrong‚ they can become the center of attention. Certainly this was true of the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ and Parmalat scandals. The directors of Enron and Worldcom‚ in particular‚ were held liable for the fraud that occurred: Enron directors had to pay $168 million to investor plaintiffs‚ of which $13 million was out of pocket
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Common themes in Corporate Governance Scandals According to ACCA (2014) “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled”‚ also the corporate governance definition in the ACCA (2014) and Financial Times (2015) are quite different but similar at the same time‚ “How a company is managed‚ in terms of the institutional systems and protocols meant to ensure accountability and sound ethics. The concept encompasses a variety of issues‚ including disclosure of information
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