OPPORTUNITY COST & THE FREE MARKET Scarcity is one of the most basic and crucial points to understand in microeconomics.1Scarcity means that we cannot have all the needs and wants to satisfy our desires. Scarcity can be applied to almost anything. Due to the scarcity of products we must make a choice of what we want. We must choose whether to do one thing or another by what we value to be most important to us. This‚ therefore‚ leads to us opportunity cost. Usually when one has to make a decision
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1.) ‘The free market is the most efficient way of allocating resources in Singapore.’ Do you agree? Every society in the world‚ including Singapore faces the basic problem of scarcity. I.e Allocating resources occurs because there is unlimited human wants and limited resources‚ hence the problem of scarcity derives. There is three basic choices to be made: What‚ How‚ and for Whom to produce. Where the choice of what to produce is dependent on product prices‚ Product prices are determined
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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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Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Firms and Corporate Image Abstract Corporate Social responsibility is one of the ways for firms to show that they care about their environment‚ employees and customers. Why is this important for companies to show that they care about their environment? Competition is fierce in the telecommunication market having companies like ‘Alice’ an American telecommunication company that entered the German market providing telecommunication services like Internet
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EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 12‚ No. 1 (2007) Positioning Stakeholder Theory within the Debate on Corporate Social Responsibility Manuel Castelo Branco Lúcia Lima Rodrigues Introduction The present-day conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implies that companies voluntarily integrate social and environmental concerns in their operations and interaction with stakeholders. The European Commission defines it as “a concept whereby companies
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disadvantages of market economy? There are many advantages to a free market economy. They range from the moral issues to the practical issues. We will deal mainly with the practical ones. -Unprecedented innovation. Free markets are wrought with inventions and the capital to research them. Countries classified as having a free market have been responsible for the vast majority of inventions since the 19th century. -Very high income mobility. This means that under a free market system it is easier
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Evaluate the Free Market Economy It is essential for every society to have some type of economic system in order to utilize their scarce resources to satisfy people’s unlimited wants. One specific type of economic system is the free market economy; an economy that is based off the citizens choice and not directed by the government. In this economy people can buy and sell goods and services‚ and this is completely controlled by consumers and producers. Every economy has advantages and disadvantages
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fascinating subject for analysis‚ particularly in CSR terms. The purpose of this essay is to give a brief cross-sectional view of the industry as it stands today by detailing the nature of the industry with the dynamics‚ the characteristics of the market‚ by describing the different stakeholders in the sector and finally by talking about the external environment. Description of the business Importance of the business The importance of the sector can be assessed in different ways. Firstly‚ the diversification
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CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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GSB WORKING PAPER NO.62 Corporate Social Responsibility: A definition by Gail Thomas Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Margaret Nowak Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J © Graduate School of Business‚ Curtin University of Technology‚ GPO Box U1987‚ Perth‚ Western Australia‚ 6001. Telephone 61 8 9266 3366‚ Fax: 61 8 9266 3368 ISSN 1323-7853 ISBN 1 74067 514 2 December 2006 Information in this publication is correct
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