THE ETHICS OF PRICE GOUGING Matt Zwolinski Abstract: Price gouging occurs when‚ in the wake of an emergency‚ sellers of a certain necessary goods sharply raise their prices beyond the level needed to cover increased costs. Most people think that price gouging is immoral‚ and most states have laws rendering the practice a civil or criminal offense. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the philosophic issues surrounding price gouging‚ and to argue that the common moral condemnation
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maker of Mercedes-Benz cars.BMW was able to recover to the point that in 1992 it passed Mercedes in worldwide sales. Among the reasons for BMW’s success was its ability to sell models that were more luxurious than previous models but still focused on consumer quality and environmental responsibility. In particular‚ BMW targeted its sales pitch to the younger market‚ whereas Mercedes retained a more mature customer base. In response to BMW’s success‚ Mercedes has been trying to change their image by launching
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Gender Pay Gap April 10‚ 2010 For decades now‚ there has been an ongoing pay gap amongst men and women. Some people say it is the woman’s choice and they made it that way‚ others say it is plain out sexism. To this day‚ there is still no definitive reason why‚ but the gap seems to close little by little each year. Can we contribute that to women standing up for themselves more‚ working harder to prove their worth‚ or even challenging the system? T.J. Billitteri wrote the article entitled
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Pay Model Name Affiliation Pay Model This is a frame work used in examination of the current and most available pay systems. The model can be composed of three building blocks or elements. The compensation objectives- the pay system is designed to meet certain objectives such as ethics‚ efficiency‚ compliancy to the law‚ and fairness. The policies that form the compensation system- the policy issue addresses management and administration of the pay system‚ internal alignment‚ and external competitiveness
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Range of grade and pay systems / structures‚ their ‘fit’ for organisational context and link to strategy 1. Pay structure (3 or 4) Broad-banding Job family Spot rates 2.2 Performance Appraisal Armstrong (1998) points out that the performance appraisal schemes is essential for organization which often contain ratings of performance factors‚ such as volume‚ quality and knowledge of work‚ dependability‚ innovation‚ staff development and communication and an overall rating. Clive
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Price discrimination Price discrimination is the practice of selling the same product at different prices to different customers‚ when there is no difference in the cost to produce the product. Price discrimination is done to maximize profits. This occurs when market prices are set differently to different buyers‚ according to the willingness of each buyer to pay (demand curve) rather than setting a uniform price. It can be seen in the image below how if the seller kept the uniform price of Africa’s
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Consumer sovereignty. Birth and evolution of the movement and consumerista politche market in its favor. LA SOVRANITA ’ DEL CONSUMATORE: "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production‚ and the interest of the producer should be considered only insofar as it may be necessary to promote the interest of the consumer" (Adam Smith). The consumerism is a relatively recent phenomenon‚ one hundred years have passed since the commercial economy of the United States was rocked by the explosion
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An Empirical Study of Consumer Switching from Traditional to Electronic Channel: A Purchase Decision Process Perspective Alok Gupta* (agupta@csom.umn.edu) Bo-chiuan Su (bsu@mgt.ncu.edu.tw) Zhiping Walter (Zhiping.Walter@cudenver.edu) ALOK GUPTA (agupta@csom.umn.edu) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Information and Decision Sciences‚ Carlson School of Management‚ University of Minnesota‚ USA. He received his PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Texas
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a graph showing different bundles of goods between which a consumer is indifferent. That is‚ at each point on the curve‚ the consumer has no preference for one bundle over another. One can equivalently refer to each point on the indifference curve as rendering the same level of utility (satisfaction) for the consumer. A budget constraint represents all the combinations of goods and services that a consumer may purchase given current prices within his or her given income. For an individual‚ indifference
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CASE STUDY: IN A WORLD OF PAY SUMMARY The case illustrates a German software company’s inability to effectively compile a fair compensation package for the hire of an American expert. It revolves around the pay package that is to be offered to a new expatriate who has been chosen to join Typware‚ a German software giant. Jurgen Mehr‚ the European head of marketing for Typware‚ is irate about the salary demands of the American executive he wants to hire. Anne Prevost‚ the expatriate in question
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