Enron Case Study Author: Robert Jon Peterson (309) Enron Case Study Enron Case Study Seven years after the fact‚ the story of the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of the Enron Corporation continues to capture the imagination of the general public. What really happened with Enron? Outside of those associated with the corporate world‚ either through business or education‚ relatively few people seem to have a complete sense of the myriad people‚ places‚ and events making up the sixteen years
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Performance Excellence and Organizational Change CHAPTER Performance Excellence Profile: Park Place Lexus1 At its two locations in Piano and Grapevine‚ Texas‚ Park Place Lexus (PPL) sells and services new and pre-owned Lexus vehicles‚ and sells Lexus parts to the wholesale and retail markets. PPL is part of the family of Park Place Dealerships (PPD)‚ which includes eight dealerships with 12 franchises. In 1994‚ PPL began benchmarking business practices outside of the automobile industry
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DISSENSUS Also available from Continuum: Being and Event‚ Alain Badiou Conditions‚ Alain Badiou Infinite Thought‚ Alain Badiou Logics of W orlds‚ Alain Badiou Theoretical Writings‚ Alain Badiou Theory ofthe Subject‚ Alain Badiou Seeing the Invisible‚ Michel Henry After Finitude‚ Quentin Meillassoux Time f Revolution‚ Antonio Negri or Politics o Aesthetics‚ Jacques Ranctere f The Five Senses‚ Michel Serres Art and Fear‚ Paul Virilio Negative Horizon‚ Paul Virilio Forthcoming:
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Theory and practice in human services Theory and practice in human services Neil Thompson Open University Press Buckingham . Philadelphia Open University Press Celtic Court 22 Ballmoor Buckingham MK18 1XW e-mail: enquiries@openup.co.uk world wide web: http://www.openup.co.uk and 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia‚ PA 19106‚ USA First published in 1995 as Theory and Practice in Health and Social Welfare Reprinted in 1995‚ 1996 and 1998 First published in this edition 2000 Copyright # Neil
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Religion Exam Notes Unit 1 Chapter 1 Introductory Notes Ethics (theoretical) Comes from the Greek word ta ethika‚ meaning good character. A discipline that deals with the nature of the good‚ the nature of the human person‚ and criteria that we use for making right judgement. It is a standard code of behaviour. The Three Main Theories of the Study of Ethics: 1. Normative Theories: the theories of morals and morality which is further divided into three categories: a) Theories of action:
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G EOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM John Pickles ISSN 0306-6142 ISBN 0 86094 220 1 © John Pickles Published by Geo Books‚ Norwich Printed by W.H. Hutchins & Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
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Chapter 2 Philosophy of Management: Concepts of Management from the Perspectives of Systems Theory‚ Phenomenological Hermeneutics‚ Corporate Religion‚ and Existentialism JACOB DAHL RENDTORFF I. II. III. IV. V. The Emergence of Business Ethics: Towards the Political Firm Values-driven Management and Organizational Systems Leadership‚ Judgment‚ and Values Corporate Religion‚ Existentialism‚ and Kierkegaard Conclusion In this paper‚ I discuss recent approaches in the theory and philosophy of management
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The term “expectations gap” has been coined to describe: a) The difference between what the public thinks it is receiving in audited financial statements‚ and what the public is actually receiving. b) The expectation that business exists to serve the needs of the shareholders and society. c) The opinion of the public that the public’s physical wellbeing‚ and the wellbeing of some workers‚ is threatened by corporate activity. d) That directors‚ executives and managers are human‚ and make mistakes
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Critical Vocabulary Builder A Abjure – To renounce or retract esp formally or under oath‚ or solemnly. Abduration – The act of renouncing. Ablation – The surgical removal of an organ‚ structure‚ or part. Ablate. Ablution - The ritual washing of a priest’s hands. Abnegate (abnegation) – To deny to oneself; renounce privileges‚ pleasure‚ etc. Abstergent – Of cleaning or scouring Abstruse – Not easy to understand; recondite; esoteric. Acalculia – psycol. An inability to make simple
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Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. ELH 63.3 (1996) 657-680 Wordsworth’s "Nutting" and the Violent End of Reading Robert Burns Neveldine Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved‚ and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are‚ on the contrary‚ creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result‚ their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual
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