THREAT OR STRENGHT ? Corporate venturing behavior is generally related to innovative activities. Creating a corporate venture is a useful choice for firms interested in entering new businesses by expanding operations into new or existing markets (Guth &Ginsberg‚1990; Zahra 1993‚ 1995‚ 1996). Through corporate ventures‚ a company can invest in new products or technologies by funding businesses that have a fairly autonomous management team‚ with the goal of developing new products or
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International Relations Word count- 2‚114 The United Nations Introduction It is 1941 and the war against the Axis forces has been waging in a state of total war for 2 years‚ and has no sign of letting up only widening participation and brutality. Since the start of the century has been two world wars‚ inter-war recession and instability within the world order. The previous attempt from the League of Nations to prevent a second world war has failed due to its inability to create a system of collective
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proper corporate governance structures are inevitable. There is need for improvement on the issues of corporate governance in all corners of the economy if real economic growth is to be realized. The research is also of the opinion that many companies collapsed over the past decade owing to partly serious corporate governance deficiencies‚ among other challenges. As a result‚ the research serves to highlight‚ hint and encourage all the relevant stakeholders to establish proper corporate governance
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Categories of corporate restructuring Corporate Restructuring entails a range of activities including financial restructuring and organization restructuring. 1. Financial Restructuring Financial restructuring is the reorganization of the financial assets and liabilities of a corporation in order to create the most beneficial financial environment for the company. The process of financial restructuring is often associated with corporate restructuring‚ in that restructuring the general function
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The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 The Act The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 took effect on 6 April 2008. Companies‚ organisations and Government bodies can now be prosecuted as a consequence of a gross breach of the duty of care resulting in the death of an individual‚ if ‘the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element in the breach’ (Section 1(3)) [1]. Prior to 2007‚ successive Governments
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Corporate Fraud: Case Studies in Detection and Prevention Fraudulent financial reporting‚ corruption‚ and misappropriation are often investigated by the internal audit department. Because these types of crimes can be the source of large losses‚ security professionals would do well to familiarize themselves with how they are carried out and how they can be detected. Corporate Fraud provides a clear window into that world. Author John D. O’Gara was the director of internal audit at a Fortune 500
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The Corporate Culture Robert Alford Grantham University BA560 Business Ethics Dr. Janice Spangenburg March 19‚ 2013 The Corporate CultureLegal Case: Adelphia Case: Feds drop fraud case against Adelphia founder‚ son A six-year legal battle involving the jailed father-son duo who headed now-defunct Adelphia Communications has ended after prosecutors withdrew tax fraud charges related to their earlier conviction in a $1.9 billion fraud case. Prosecutors said they withdrew the tax-related
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BLO 2205 Corporate Law Assignment Semester 1 2013 INTRODUCTION Under the Corporations Act 20011‚ all the directors and officers must be under Common Law duties and Statutory Law duties to exercise their powers in order to carry on one company. It is essential for officers and directors to impose the legal duties for purposes of minimizing wrongful or illegal behaviors’ risks. Briefly‚ the main fiduciary duties and statutory duties contains duty to act in good faith in the interests
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Utilising the video case study of Egg Finance’ (Slave Nation‚ Channel 4)‚ critically examine the extent to which corporate culture is used as an effective tool for the achievement of organizational goals. Corporate Culture is widely used in many organisations and has a variety of definitions. It has been defined by Koozes‚ Caldwell & Posner cited by Moorhead/Griffin‚ (1989:494) as: "a set of shared‚ enduring beliefs communicated through a variety of symbolic media‚ creating meaning in people’s
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Introduction The main concept in the assignment is about corporate personality. First of all‚ we need to clarify the meaning and characteristics of company. In short‚ company means a body of persons combined for a common object. A company exist there must be a group of persons that more than 1 persons. In eyes of law‚ a company is a separate legal personality from its members. In Section 16(5) CA1965‚ it stated that a body corporate obligations and liabilities are its own‚ and not those of its
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