JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS‚ Vol. 25‚ No. 1‚ 2004 145 THE ROLE OF PURCHASING IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION ANALYSIS by Craig R. Carter University of Nevada‚ Reno and Marianne M. Jennings Arizona State University Researchers over the past several years have advocated that the role of logistics must expand to encompass social responsibility (Bowersox 1998; Poist 1989; Stock 1990). Most recently‚ Murphy and Poist (2002) noted that research in the area of socially responsible
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Fundamental Concepts and Tools of Business Finance Reported By: Fundamental Concepts and Tools of Business Finance Finance - study of the acquisition and investment of cash purpose of enhancing value and wealth. Categories of finance: 1.) Public finance 2.) Private finance 2.1)personal finance 2.2)finance of non-profit organization 2.3)business finance Three aspects of business Finance * Small business finance * Corporation
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Cat is out of the bag: KANA and Layoff Gone Awry(A) 1) Who are the key constituents in this case and identify each of their interests? The key constituents in this case are in the table below: Constituents Vicki (VP of Int. and HR) and Bryan Kettle (CFO) Chuck Bay (CEO) and Tom Doyle (COO) Customers Terminated employees and unions Survivor employees Managers The investment Community HRManagement Interests making the layoff process go as smoothly and transparently for the business
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Dropping Out University For many teenagers‚ there are many negative factors that can lead them to drop out of university. The first cause that teenagers can’t get the right decision when they first graduated from school. The lack of responsibility and self-encourage keep them thinking that the university not good that caused by involving them with wrong kind of people or activity that lead to less focus on the importance of education. Another factor that cause a student to drop out university
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theme. The “Coming out” process also known as “coming out of the closet” is a turn of phrase for Lesbian‚ Gay and Bisexual(LGB) people who reveal their sexual orientation to the people around them. The process of “coming out” is never easy for many gay people. They are ashamed of themselves and for what people will think about them. They are afraid to tell their friends and family because they feel as if they won’t be accepted anymore. There are six stages in the coming out process‚ the first stage
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Dropping Out of School Dropping out of school is something that will affect you for the rest of your life. Education is priceless. Students in high school should realize how important those four years of their life will be. Dropping out of school might seem like a smart idea to a person at the time but in the long run will affect their future. Yet many still drop out for reasons such as drugs‚ financial needs‚ and the home environment. For example‚ some students just drop out because they think
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myself‚ which I wouldn’t change for the world. The day I came out was the first time I finally felt whole‚ and true to myself. It was one of my many off days I have‚ which usually isn’t the day to screw with me. It was first hour health my junior year of high school‚ and it just so happened to be the day we talked about homosexuals‚ and homosexual sex. We got threw about half the hour‚ and out of the blue a boy in my class yells out‚ “Are you gay?” all of the sudden I’m in complete shock! The classroom
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Tsunami [pic] INTRODUCTION The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural‚ in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the
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Coming Out: I Am an Atheist Amongst the celebrations for legal gay marriage all across the United States and many celebrities/non-celebrities coming out‚ there is now a new spin to the saying: “I’m coming out”. Former North East Hampshire MP in Britain has now revealed to the public that he is coming out as an atheist in the article written by Matt Chorley in the Newspaper Daily Mail. The title is “Conservative MP comes out... as an ATHEIST: James Arbuthnot says Tory need to believe in God is the
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other cars I had loaded up earlier pulled out and after starting up the car we slowly followed them. Now I had to laugh at the idea of taking the long way‚ I wanted to get there fast so I asked to take the freeway. We called everyone and after some worried complaints they all agreed and we turned at the next freeway entrance and were on our merry way. Soon however I learned how much of an awful mistake I made. Watching the mattress in front of us fly out of my aunts pearl white dodge ram was the
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