Milton Friedman suggests that businesses should only be responsible for making profits. If a business stays within the law‚ it is encouraged to do anything and go to any means necessary to maximize the bottom line. Other aspects such as customer happiness‚ impacts on society should not be its main concern. Porter and Kramer on the other hand suggest that we can create shared values in other words we can create economic value simultaneously by creating societal benefit and vice versa. Theoretically
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successful cost reduction programmes In the current economic climate‚ most organisations must face up to a prolonged period of extreme competition and funding restrictions. This is particularly the case if the past few years have been focused on growth‚ service improvement or reorganisation (i.e. cost efficiency has not been a recent priority). Such pressures require an approach that reduces costs in a strategic‚ disciplined‚ and sustainable manner - delivered at pace. In our view serious cost reduction
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The Internet is virtual shopping mall that allows the consumer to transact business including banking‚ shopping‚ and a host of day-to-day chores. As much as the consumer has come to rely on this new forum of exchange‚ it is also an instrument of many civil wrongs (cyber torts). This harm includes financial injuries‚ reputable damage‚ theft of trade secrets‚ and invasions of privacy. The Enron Corporation was listed as the seventh largest company in the U.S. with over $100 billion in gross revenues
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Introduction and backgrounds In the world‚ there are a lot of monopolies of necessities situations existing. Among them‚ the most important and serious one is the monopolies for life saving drugs. People who have rare diseases have had not much research attention‚ it is because their numbers are small and the supply and demand market for drugs to treatment is also small. A rare disease occurs in less than 200‚000 individuals in the United States‚ or less than 5 per 10‚000 individuals in the European
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Not-for-Profit According to Merriam-Webster.com‚ Not-for-Profit‚ also known as nonprofit is defined as‚ “not existing or done for the purpose of making a profit.” Whereas For-Profit is the opposite and is defined as “existing or done for the purpose of making a profit.” I am an ethnographic researcher for a popular organizational behavior research journal. In this article‚ we will be looking at 2 popular and major organizations‚ where one is Not-for-Profit and the other is For-Profit and identifying
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PRINCIPLES OF COST CONTROL 1.1 Introduction Cost is important to all industry. Costs can be divided into two general classes; absolute costs and relative costs. Absolute cost measures the loss in value of assets. Relative cost involves a comparison between the chosen course of action and the course of action that was rejected. This cost of the alternative action - the action not taken - is often called the "opportunity cost". The accountant is primarily concerned with the absolute cost. However‚
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Cost Concepts for Managerial Decision Making Prepared for instructional use in Economics For Managers ECG 507 College of Management North Carolina State Universiy © Stephen E. Margolis 2000 Soon we will be using the concepts of cost that are presented in Landsburg’s chapters five and six to analyze market behavior of firms. With a bit of interpretation‚ however‚ these concepts have immediate application to ordinary decisions that
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5 / ¼.5= .67%/ 22%= 3.05 Ch 22 #7 1. Key Question A firm has fixed costs of $60 and variable costs as indicated in the table on the following page. Complete the table and check your calculations by referring to question 4 at the end of Chapter 23. 1. Graph total fixed cost‚ total variable cost‚ and total cost. Explain how the law of diminishing returns influences the shapes of the variable-cost and total-cost curves Graph AFC‚ AVC‚ ATC‚ and MC. Explain the derivation and shape of each
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competition‚ monopoly and oligopoly. These categories have been made to help people understand how businesses operate and how prices‚ outputs and profits are determined. The four market structure types are there mainly for the purposes of organization. Competition is useful because it reveals actual customer demand and induces the seller (operator) to provide service quality levels and price levels that buyers (customers) want‚ subject to the seller’s financial need to cover its costs. The market
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