Fordlândia: Corporate Citizenship or Corporate Colonialism Question 1 - Based on the information provided in the case‚ what could the list look like‚ that Archibald Johnston started to compile (at the end of section Adeus Fordlândia – bem-vindo Belterra!)? Can you identify challenges that can be labelled as hypernorms or authentic norms? Ford built up a new community for the people living in the jungle and gave them new opportunities. They got access to free education‚ healthcare‚ jobs and
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enforcement officers can’t be everywhere at the same time‚ so what is it that keeps our society in check the majority of the time? In Michele Foucault’s chapter “Panoptiticism” from his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison‚ he elaborates on Jeremy Bentham’s idea of a panopticon‚ focusing on the role of discipline as an instrument of power. What makes the panopticon successful is the idea of an ever-constant surveillance‚ which the prisoners of the panopticon are always aware of. Panopticism
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The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Trimester 1‚ 2012 71303 Corporate Finance Final Examination Time allowed Three hours‚ plus 10 minutes to read this paper. Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. Answer all questions. Read each question carefully. Start each question on a new page. Show all of your workings. Mark allocation Question Part A Part B 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Cost of capital Risk and return Investment timing real option Capital structure Dividend policy 14 12 15 20 15 Total 100 Topic Multiple-choice
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Question 1 Corporate governance has comparatively getting important in the business world. The term ‘corporate governance’ and its daily application in the financial press is a fresh appearance of the past fifteen years or so (Thomsen‚ 2004). The phase of growth may refer to the evolvement of the economy‚ corporate structure or ownership groups‚ every of which influence the way corporate governance will grow and be adapted within its own country surroundings (Mallin‚ 2010). A feature of specific
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Part I – Perfect capital markets‚ capital structure and cost of capital (15 points) GP Corp. has common stock with a market value of $200 million and riskless debt with a value of $100 million. Investors expect a 15% return on the stock and a 6% return on the debt. Assume perfect capital markets without any taxes. a) Suppose GP issues $100 million of new stock to buy back the debt. What is the expected return of the stock after this transaction? (4 points) b) Suppose instead GP issues $50 million
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Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book. Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity. Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published
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The Birth of Linguistics as an Autonomous Discipline – Q1 The term linguistics was first used in the middle of the 19th century. The earliest Greek linguistic notions are from 5th – 4th century b.c. And grammatical description became a profession in the 17th c. Plato’s dialogue “Cratilus” is the first Western document of linguistic analysis‚ hiss notion of language is that each word has an underlying form which express the meaning of that word in a transparent way. Additionally‚ words are
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Week 1 Essay Questions (80 Points) 1. Why is corporate governance important? a) good corporate governance produces direct economic benefit to the organization b) To avoid scandal c) To imbibe trust in investors d) The perception of good corporate governance is an important ingredient of the image of an organization‚ whether public‚ private‚ or nonprofit. e) A perception of unethical conduct by an organization can be very costly in legal cases Reference:
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Question: Critically analyse the state of corporate governance in both the private and public sector in Zimbabwe. [100] Introduction The definition of corporate governance most widely used is "the system by which companies are directed and controlled" (Cadbury Committee‚ 1992). More specifically it is the framework by which the various stakeholder interests are balanced‚ or‚ as the IFC states‚ "the relationships among the management‚ Board of Directors‚ controlling shareholders‚ minority shareholders
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decided to write about the problem or challenges history is facing as an academic discipline. When viewed from one side one can conclude that history cannot be regarded as an academic discipline‚ this can be said when one start considering the likes of myth‚ legends‚ moonlight stories (alo) among others. Then on the other side one can also conclude that history cannot be separated or studied without being an academic discipline‚ this has to do with a student purposely in school to study the past and also
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