An Assignment of Business Ethics & Corporate Governance CASE STUDIES Module I BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY December 3‚ 2009‚ marked the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst ever industrial disaster - the gas leak that occurred at Union Carbide India Ltd’s (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh‚ India). The tragedy that instantly killed more than 3‚000 people and left thousands injured and affected for life‚ occurred when water entered Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) storage tank No. 610
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Insert name Insert name of the course supervisor Insert name of the course Insert date assignment is due Why Corporate Governance is an Important Ethical Issue As consumer movements grow stronger and stakeholders become more knowledgeable and aware of company operations‚ it has become necessary for corporations to come to grips with ethical issues in order to continue surviving in business. Consumers and stakeholders are becoming increasingly aware of the adverse effects of unethical
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Alibaba Corporate Governance Analysis Samet Karadag Contents Alibaba Leadership..............................................................................................................................3 Board of Directors ...........................................................................................................................3 BIOGRAPHIES ......................................................................................................................
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Corporate governance is a field in economics that investigates how to secure/motivate efficient management of corporations by the use of incentive mechanisms‚ such as contracts‚ organizational designs and legislation. This is often limited to the question of improving financial performance‚ for example‚ how the corporate owners can secure/motivate that the corporate managers will deliver a competitive rate of return. (Mathiesen‚ 2002). Another definition is "Corporate Governance is concerned
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Corporate governance is defined as the distribution of power in the company. In the 1990s‚ the great success of US economy let to the efforts to understand and copy American management methods. The Anglo-American view of corporate governance derives from generating long term economic gain to enhance shareholder value. An outside board of directors is hired. The boards of US companies are made up of friends and acquaintances of the CEO. The use of stock options ’ is another feature introduced
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INTRODUCTION There has been considerable interest in recent years in the role of the audit committee as a key corporate governance mechanism. Corporate governance committees and regulators around the world have addressed the need for effective audit committees‚ with many requiring that listed companies must have a committee (European Union (EU) 8th Company Law Directive‚ 2006; Smith Report‚ 2003; United States (US) Congress‚ 2002). Recognising that the existence of a committee does not
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The impact of corporate governance on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting by Egyptian listed companies Amr Ezat and Ahmed El-Masry Plymouth Business School‚ Plymouth‚ UK Abstract Purpose – This study seeks to examine the key factors that affect the timeliness of corporate internet reporting (CIR) by the Egyptian listed corporations on the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use firm characteristics and corporate governance variables to investigate
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White Collar Crime: Essay 3. Regulatory regimes for white collar crime & corporate crime. The regulatory regimes in place for white-collar crime (WCC) and corporate crime (CC) are much more extensive than those for any other sort of crimes‚ problematically WCC and CC continues to grow. This essay will firstly‚ examine the regulatory regimes in place for the increasing WCC of credit card fraud and secondly how corporations are regulated to prevent CC against the environment through fly-tipping
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THE BENEFITS OF SARBANES-OXLEY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MEASURED AGAINST THE COSTS Salim Motala A research project submitted to the Gordon Institute of Business Science‚ University of Pretoria‚ in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration. 14 November 2007 ABSTRACT The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is the only legislated corporate governance structure‚ and is aimed at increasing investor confidence in public companies by forcing them
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High Court Ruling Only Tweaks Sarbanes-Oxley Act Article Review Calvin Fritz LAW/421 August 5‚ 2013 Instructor Nadia Bishop High Court Ruling Only Tweaks Sarbanes-Oxley Act Article Review The Supreme Court made a ruling in Free Enterprise Fund vs. PCAOB saying that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) will remain “fully operative as law” with the exception that The Securities and Exchange Commission will be able to remove at will members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Previously they
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