One of the most controversial issues that has been widely debated over the last two decades is the corporate social responsibility of organizations. Opinions about business’s social responsibilities lie mainly between two extremes. At the one extreme is the classical view that states business is an economic institution directed towards profit whose only responsibility to society is to provide goods and services and to return maximum benefits to shareholders (Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg and Coulter‚ 2003:
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Corporate structure is approximately how a company is arranged to accomplish its purposes. The corporate structure of a company is noteworthy since it controls the proprietorship‚ control‚ and pro of the bunch. In a enterprise‚ these highlights are meant by three clusters: shareholders‚ chiefs‚ and officers. Proprietorship remains to the shareholders. Control is exercised by the board of directors on behalf of the shareholders‚ while authority over the day-to-day operations is vested in the officers
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Amway banks on corporate campaign Vinson Kurian THIRUVANANTHAPURAM‚ Oct. 22 THE direct selling company Amway India‚ which has relied mostly on word-of-mouth campaign for publicity‚ has now embraced the corporate advertising paradigm‚ but in a `limited’ manner. "We are well on our way of accelerated growth in the country. Corporate advertising at this stage would be most beneficial to our distributors‚ prospective distributors‚ customers and prospective customers‚" Mr William Pinckney‚ Managing
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If the board of directors have been more involved then I think maybe they would have caught on that there were fraudulent and unethical activities happening. However‚ since they were not proactive they were not able to stop the misbehavior from the company’s employees. The board of directors were to be held with as much fault as the culpants. The tax evasion‚ inflated profits‚ commingling of assets was illegal and the unauthorized bonuses that they were handing out were not authorized‚ but they still
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the framework proposed by Carroll (1991) to provide managers with a way to evaluate their duties to the myriad groups with interests in their organizations. These groups are defined as stakeholders and include owners‚ customers‚ employees‚ the community‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ social activist groups‚ the public and potentially others. According to Carroll (1991)‚ the framework of CSR can be divided into four parts encompassing “the entire spectrum of business
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Good Corporate Citizenship & Political Competence-Interrelated/Interconnected Introduction Good corporate citizenship and political competence are interconnected. A definition of both terms will be provided. How both terms are interconnected will be discussed. Also‚ a mission statement from a healthcare organization (HCO)‚ more specifically a hospital will be evaluated and interpreted to view the connection between good corporate citizenship and political competence. Interconnection In order
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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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References 17 1.0 Introduction Corporate governance means the process and structures used to direct and manage the business and affairs of the corporation with the objective of enhancing shareholder value; which includes ensuring the financial viability of the business (MCCG‚ 2012). Previous researches have attributed corporate failures to lack of compliance with the corporate governance code and Good firm performance with best practices of corporate governance. According to Kumudini.H (2011)‚
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Article: Challenges and Best Practices in Corporate Governance .Feb 25‚ 2014 Before I started this article‚ I looked up the meaning of the term governance in the dictionary to ensure that I have captured the real meaning of it‚ in the real sense of the word. More so‚ I wanted to make sure that the way I understand the term is in the same context as what Prof Mansibang is pointing out in his article. As intrinsically depicted in the article‚ Corporate governance is the framework‚ the set of rules‚ the
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PharmaCARE Bionca Murray Law‚ Ethics‚ & Corp. Governance Dr. Boneita Campbell Strayer University 2-19-2015 Stakeholders A stakeholder is a person‚ group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization (businessdictionary). Generally the common characteristics stakeholders might have are if they stand to gain or lose through the success or failure of the company. “A corporate stakeholder can affect the actions of a business as a whole” (businessdictionary). PharmaCARE
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