The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1755-4179.htm Shareholder and stakeholder theory: after the financial crisis Terence Tse ESCP Europe‚ London‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The recent financial crisis has restarted the debate of the value of both shareholder and stakeholder theories. This paper aims to continue this discussion. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews existing literature and examines the benefits and problems associated
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Business Model: Amazon versus eBay A company’s business model is the activities it uses to create and capture value through its offerings to the market. Modelling helps firms develop business visions and strategies‚ redesign and align business operations‚ share knowledge about the business and its vision and ensure the acceptance of business decisions through committing stakeholders to the decisions made (Persson & Stirna ‚ 2001). Amazon and eBay both share space in the retail industry of e-retail
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Unit 5005 Meeting Stakeholder and Quality needs – Learning outcome 2 Quality management standards in our organization 2.1 Total Quality Management‚ or TQM‚ is the process of instilling quality throughout an organization and its business processes. Many organizations that employ a system of Total Quality Management in human resources‚ etc‚ are large companies but there is no reason why Total Quality Management theory shouldn’t work in smaller businesses as well. For Total Quality Management
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The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate T he stakeholder theorists smell blood. Scandals at Enron‚ Global Crossing‚ ImClone‚ Tyco International and WorldCom‚ concerns about the independence of accountants who are charged with auditing financial statements‚ and questions about the incentive schema and investor recommendations at Credit Suisse First Boston and iMerrill Lynch have all provided rich fodder for those who question the premise of shareholder supremacy. Many observers have claimed that
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well as in selected foreign countries‚ in supermarkets‚ grocery stores‚ convenience stores‚ franchised Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops and restaurants. Stakeholder and stockholder’s role and motivation Stakeholders are the parties that have interests or affected by a corporation. Analyzing Ben & Jerry’s‚ there potentially exists several stakeholders‚ including management‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ stockholders‚ community etc. * Management Actually speaking‚ management plays a vital role
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eBAY: Implications of the Web for Future Business Timothy MBA6004 Foundational Skills for Business Leaders Instructor: Pamela Solberg-Tapper INTRODUCTION At first glance looking at eBay today you would never think that it started from a simple‚ comical background. (Hsiao‚ 2014) states‚ “Lacking is the glamour of the hotshot entrepreneurial firm and high-voltage venture capital so commonly seen in other companies that are babies of the dot-com bubble”. EBay ‘s origin begins
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HealthSouth Impact on Stakeholders HealthSouth’s fraud impacted many of their stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders discussed below are the Directors and Management Team‚ external auditors Ernst & Young‚ the employees‚ the patients‚ and Chief Financial Officer Weston Smith. The Board of Directors and Management team engaged in several conflict of interest actions. They were the first company to be charged under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002; which holds financial executives more accountable by
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Role of Stakeholder Paper MGT/420 June 17‚2013 Role of Stakeholder What is the role of the stakeholder in implementing a quality management process? Each stakeholder has a different part to play in this process and each have very specific roles. Most organizations already have this process put into place. The stakeholders are the individuals whom get affected the most because of the quality management process that is implemented. Role of Stakeholders in Implementing a Quality Management
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question can be discussed in the stockholder vs. stakeholder debate. Although there are reasonable arguments for both – the stockholder and the stakeholder theory - I will use this paper to show that the stakeholder approach is superior and should be used for business in companies. To reach my conclusion‚ I structured the paper in the following way: The second Chapter should explain the basic idea and the basic concept of the stockholder and the stakeholder theory. Based on this explanation the following
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After researching a clothes Iron on “All my life” and then researching a few more of the items on eBay I was very much surprised to see the difference in the descriptions of both items. In the All my life description of the item the seller made sure to use a subjective description. She gave details about the product and explained where the product had come from and how it had been made. At first I believed this to be a combination of both subjective and objective. She did try to explain why she
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