Stakeholders vs. Shareholders The definition of business strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal or set of goals or objectives. Stakeholder is a person‚ group‚ or organization that has direct or indirect stake in an organization because it can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives‚ and policies. Shareholder is someone who owns shares of stock in a corporation or mutual fund. For corporations‚ along with the ownership comes a right
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1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture that can effectively respond to various stakeholders? Yes‚ it does. Ethical culture means to assert the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all relations of life‚ personal‚ social‚ national‚ and international‚ apart from any theological or metaphysical considerations (“Encyclopedia.com”‚ 2012). Over a few decades‚ Monsanto has been hiding about the environmental pollution that is harmful for people. The stakeholders were loss of confidence
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I believe it’s safe to say Monsanto has not adhered to any basic moral standard when it comes to the safety of their products and the people consuming them. Since its inception in 1901‚ the company has had a penchant for substituting real food for artificial substitutes‚ which were often cheaper to manufacture. Their degradation of human society didn’t stop there‚ of course. By the 1920s‚ Monsanto was partnering with other large chemical companies around the world‚ producing industrial chemicals
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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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Stakeholder versus Shareholder Stakeholder theory thinks that the enterprise is a series of contracts with various stakeholders to form various stakeholder consultations‚ the outcome of a transaction‚ whether investors‚ managers‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ or government departments‚ community‚ etc.‚ they are enterprise-specific investments and bear the risks. On the other hand‚ Shareholder theory thinks that not only the market will be sound‚ permanent‚ and viable‚ but also the ethical issues
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Considerations of Stakeholder Analysis L. Harris Stakeholder analysis is the identification of who has interest in an organization‚ an assessment of those interests‚ and an analysis of the ways in which those interests affect organizational viability. It is the systematic identification of key stakeholders and appraisal of their influence and posture towards bringing about of a particular future. An analysis helps identify the goals and roles of different interest groups‚ and formulate appropriate
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Stakeholder Theory and Limitation 1. Stakeholder theory is an excuse for managerial opportunism: The core claim is that by providing more groups who management can argue their actions benefit‚ stakeholder theory makes it far easier to engage in self-dealing and defend it than if shareholder theory were the sole purpose. 2. Stakeholder theory is primarily concerned with distribution of financial outputs: This view depicts stakeholder theory as primarily about who receives the resources of the organization
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Cristel Moriau Introduction to International Economic Law Academiejaar: 2009-2010 Balance- of- payment – exception in the WTO | | |Background | |The WTO is the principal regulator of the commercial pillar of the international economic
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Increasing Student Interest in Science‚ Technology‚ Engineering‚ and Math (STEM): Massachusetts STEM Pipeline Fund Programs Using Promising Practices Prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education March 2011 Acknowledgements Increasing Student Interest in STEM Acknowledgements The concept for this report evolved from valuable conversations with the former Pipeline Director‚ David McCauley and from Program Manger‚ Keith Connors. Information in this report has been
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Roles of stakeholders Every organisation has stakeholders. Examples of stakeholder groups (beyond stockholders) are employees‚ suppliers‚ customers‚ creditors‚ competitors‚ governments‚ and communities. They often affect the corporation‚ law and markets but actually it consists of senior management‚ managers and employees. In this assignment‚ we will discuss role of stakeholders in terms of identification of learning and development within organisation‚ what is the nature and application of the
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