Corporation Article Reviews Samples For Students

Practices 7.3 and 7.4:

Practice 7.3
The social role of business has been predominated by the concept of corporate citizenship, which currently has several notions.
Corporate citizenship has two conventional views:
Limited view – corporate citizenship is “strategic philanthropy;” undertaking ethical, economic and legal responsibilities are done with self-interests in mind
Equivalent view – corporate citizenship is “corporate social responsibility;” undertaking ethical, economic and legal responsibilities are not presupposed with self-interests
Matten and Crane (2005) emphasized the need to introduce a “theoretically informed definition” of corporate citizenship, one that is not limited within the two conventional views, ...

Summary:

In Michael Blanding’s article, “The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters,” the function and the role of a corporate headquarter is emphasized. It illustrates that coordination in an office or organizational work is very important and that the headquarter houses the whole operations of the enterprise in a more efficient manner. The explicit knowledge of the activities of each of the organizational department is very crucial to the maximum performance of the company. This only happens when there is a corporate headquarter. It integrates the works of each unit of the organization through its staff.

The article further explores the virtual roles ...

The Corporations Act of 2001 (Cth) is at times referred to simply as the Corporations Act. This is generally the actual act of the Commonwealth of Australia that overly sets out the laws and regulations that deal with various business entities within the borderlines of Australia. The scope and geographical jurisdiction with reference to the Corporations Act is applicable at both federal and interstate levels. The main focus of the Corporations Act, just as its respective name suggests is on companies. However, this aspect is not so entirely as various partnerships and also managed investment structures are within the ...

Advertising as an intangible asset

The article Advertising as an Intangible Asset and the Value of a Multinational Corporation by Anse Balas and Halil Kaya is an investigation of if investors identify advertizing as an important intangible asset. The article set to expound on the effect of advertizing account change announcements and new account announcement on share holders’ wealth.
This article is mainly directed to the management of Multi National Corporation. It is especially targeting the advertizing departments of these Multi National Corporations. The managements of Multi National Corporations are responsible in ensuring that the value of stocks in the market remains stable to ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an act by the United States congress in 2002 aim at protecting investors through corporate disclosures accuracy and reliability. It mandated strict reforms aimed at improving financial disclosures and possibly prevent accounting fraud. The scandals of early 2000s such as Tycoon, WorldCom and Enron predicated the enacted of SOX. These scandals shook investor confidence, and an overhaul of regulatory standards was required. The SOX Act outlined rules as well as enforcement policies, which amended or supplemented existing legislation. There are two key provisions of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act which are section 302 and section 404. Section ...

This article discusses the emerging issues in the growth and development of corporate social responsibility. It starts by discussing various drivers of to corporate social responsibility. Ideally, business attitudes and its relationship are slowly changing with time due changes in the business environment. As a result, changes in business environments such as technological, political, economic, social, cultural and legal environments are influencing the business behaviours and the way to handle problems. This is to mean that there is great need for corporates to adopt changes in their social responsibility. In addition, social corporate environment is also ensured by focusing on ...

American Public University

In this paper, I will analyze the advantages of creating a business in the form of corporation and cost structures of companies. Companies develop some strategies to have the possible least cost of production and gain an advantage in competition. Preference for forming an organization is the first step. Corporation legal structure presents some advantages to companies. Also, companies need to have full knowledge of costs to be able to manage costs to maximize their profits. Eventually, this paper will give some insights about these subjects.
Corporation is a legal form of building an organization for a company. Operating ...

ARTICLE REVIEWS

The world of business is characterized by several issues that together create the business environment suitable for the players. It is essential to understand that certain factors have a huge bearing on the business frameworks that govern the global markets. Below is a review of sample international business articles;

The article attempts to unravel the misconstrued notion that new technologies like the internet have normalized the marketplace and made it a level ground for all the players. It is critical to understand the underlying disparities that have been assuming by the proponents of new technology and those who continue ...

The article focuses on the operations of corporate firms in the United States. According to the article, the corporate executives are expected to conduct themselves in a prescribed manner. Previously, the executive of various foreign firms was allowed to conduct themselves in an environment with more freedom. Due to the above mentioned freedom, the foreign firms were able to make a myriad profit as compared to the domestic firms. Reportedly, the corporate executive could easily engage in fraud or corporate misconduct, this enabled the firms to make a higher profit, since they could engage in fraudulent activities to earn illegal profit. Come ...

The purpose of the article is to make the readers understand why the process of transformation within corporations is usually slow. The article’s main idea is how the process of change within companies can be hastened. The author gives emphasis to the six obstacles, which slow down the process of transformation within the corporations. They include the cautious management culture, business-as-usual management process, initiative gridlock, recalcitrant executives, disengaged employees, and loss of focus during the execution.
He advises the corporate leaders on how they can overcome each of these impediments and increase the speed of the change process. ...

Article review

This is a review of the article “Establishing a Total Safety Culture within a Flight Department” by Homan, W.J., Rantz, G. W and Balden, R. B and published by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998.
The article presents principles and procedures based on behaviour. These procedures and principles are successfully applied to modify safety attitudes within Flight departments. It addresses the constraints and flaws of human condition and methods of employees to learn safe behaviour. It then goes ahead and propose management of crew resources as a tool of increasing general safety in the Aviation industry. Additionally, it identifies senior ...

Abstract

The article is about writing and critical thinking in the workplace. It covers issues on changing organizational environment, comparisons of traditional and new principles as well as understanding of public relations. The authors present these topics to how they affect the perception of technical communications amidst an increasingly demanding complex environment. They also show the adjustments that can be applied to help professionals adapt to the workplace.
Keywords: changing organizational environment, public relations, new principles, technical communication, professional adjustments, curriculum design, technical writing and higher education.

Introduction

Media personalities and CEO recognize the importance and the value of quality technical ...

Costs

The OECD guidelines are meant to guide companies and other enterprises on the way forward while conducting their businesses. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as it is commonly known is defined by the European Commission (2010) as, “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis." Davis (1973) states that it not merely enough for companies to have economic concerns but they should go beyond that and better the community around them. Although it is clear that these stipulations are voluntary, and no one firm can ...

A summary

The report “A Bigger World: A Special Report on Globalization” offers a substantive review on various issues aligned with globalization. In fact, the report offers substantive insights on the economic implications of globalization. Worth noting is the fact that in the past globalization had a different meaning, whereby it was often used to mean expansion of business from the developed nations to the less developed ones. However, things have taken another turn in the recent past whereby, the emerging economies have evolved into equal competitors with the developed nations. As result, economies from both developed and less developed nations are transacting ...

Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization ...

At the end of every fiscal year corporations post large profits that run into millions of dollars. The main beneficiaries are the stockholders of these corporations and the top management staff that lead luxurious lives. The situation is however different for the workers in the lower carders of these corporations that work the hardest to create these profits because as the corporations keep growing their profits the number of Americans living below the poverty line keeps increasing.
According to Segal, whose article appeared in the New York Times, an Apple store worker sold goods worth $750,000 in a span ...

Sue'Ann Easterling PE 551 Race in sports or athletics June 19, 2013 1 of 6

Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328
The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

Dernbach (2002) defines corporate environmental responsibility as the commitments of individual firms to efficiently manage and control the damage inflicted upon the natural environment by its processes, products and business molds. Consequently, the foundation of corporate environmentalism is sometimes associated to autonomous environmental groups. Over the years, this concept has become applicable in most companies and organizations. It follows that companies have come out to openly declare their commitment to manage the environment in a sustainable manner. Notably, such intents are usually posted in the company’s website. It is however disturbing that some of these companies are still rated ...

the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders
the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders

Introduction

This paper provides a review of the article The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders by Archie B. Carroll (1991). It provides a summary of the article, which discusses the various facets and components of corporate social responsibility. In addition, this paper provides an evaluation of the article’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the writer’s views with regards to the author’s claims.

Background Information

The emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) resulted in some confusion over what ...

and Hurdle Rates in Nordic firms
This article discussed the study conducted about the factors that affected the choice of capital budgeting methods among five Nordic countries. It was noted that the Net Present Value method has been considered as the best option in the evaluation of investment decisions. Some of the complexities associated with the use of NPV in terms of its application in capital budgeting and the setting of discount rates lead to this study, which concentrated on the administration of the survey from firms located in Nordic countries.
The research revealed that the Discounted Cash Flow ...

Driverless Car

Financial managers of huge corporations are aimed at increasing the value of their shareholders. This goal requires managers to combine paying dividends to shareholders as well as increasing the long term sustainability and profitability of a company. In many cases financial managers of such companies are ready to do everything to maximize their investments and projects so that the position of their company could improve in recent years (Forbes.com, 2016).
A great example of the corporate finance in real life could be presented by Japanese automobile company Mazda. The company has introduced its most innovative project of renewed Mazda ...

International business refers to cross-border trade between different political jurisdictions. International business can either be carried out by private businesses or the private companies. Since the dawn of the western civilization, nations have been trading with each other to supplement the commodities that were missing in their jurisdictions. The works of neoliberal economist influenced the nature of economic trade between nations. Globalization added to liberalization of the economy. Private business enterprises were allowed to enter the market. International business posed many risks to businesses that were quick to enter the global market without taking the risks into considerations. Cross ...

The article The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy by Gritsch lay the foundation of the fundamental impact that globalization has on the sovereignty of the state. The emergence of an international organization such as the World Bank, European Union, and International Monitory Fund characterize the trajectory of global economies through regional integration. The debate raised in The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy holds the view the relationship between the global economic, through the lens of Marxist theory and the functional theory of international organization, shapes the reduced ability and sovereignty of the state ...

Major Focus of the Article

The article titled, “Strategic Opportunity, And Anguish, For U.S. Companies That Are FIFA Sponsors” by Groves centers on the ethical decision that the sponsors of the world’s football governing body, FIFA ought to make regarding its recent scandalous allegations involving money laundering, bribery, and racketeering. Among these sponsors include the United States leading companies such as McDonald’s, Adidas AG, Nike, Coca-Cola Co, and Visa. Groves implies that all the FIFA sponsors are caught in the cross-fire, that is, between taking part in FIFA’s prosecution and capitalizing on profits. Just like all other organizations, FIFA sponsors have ...

Hallstead, Ted and Cobb, Clifford, “The Need for New Measurements of Progress,” in Mander, J., & Goldsmith, E. (1996). The case against the global economy: And for a turn toward the local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Short synopsis of the article: The authors seek to discover why people and politicians are still focused on the obsolete economic measurement, GDP. Beginning by discussing the economic boom of the 1990s, Hallstead and Clifford explain that while Allen Greenspan was assuring the media that the economy was in great shape many Americans were wondering why they were working longer hours with seemingly ...

Management

The problem the article is attempting to solve
The article attempts to look at the emerging trend among the colleges that offer MBA to introduce the Hippocratic Oath for the students as the case of the medical schools. The article attempts to explore the impact of the Hippocratic Oath on the managers and whether it makes sense in the current business environment. The central problems addressed in the article include whether the oath is a requirement for the practice in the management and whether it can lead to improved management. The author attempts to explore the impact of the ...

Analysis of Two Articles

Analysis of Two Articles
Interestingly, in his conclusions Kay (2006) outlined challenges for strong brands stating that following the logic of strong brands is the wrong way for decision makers because this is an easy way to be misled. The main conclusion drawn by the author was that a strong brand should be built according to certain brand logic that it tight to the meaning assigned to this brand. Porter (2008) did not draw any conclusions, but he ended his article with a concluding paragraph emphasizing the importance of careful analysis of industry structure and competition and stating that these are two the ...

1. Describe what is being studied

The study is about the accuracy of social reporting by firms in the United States with a focus on the environmental performance reported in those social reports issued by firms with their annual reports.
Specifically, the study seeks to evaluate the adequacy of environmental disclosures in social reports issued by corporate bodies in their annual reports for subjects with different backgrounds to form homogeneous perceptions of a firm’s environmental performance. The study also further seeks to examine the adequacy of environmental disclosures in annual reports of corporate bodies to objectively evaluate relative environmental performance among firms in the same ...

Abstract

Since the inception of the modern technologies, the world of business has really evolved. The hi-tech transport and communication facilities have made it possible for countries to import and export goods and services. This has led to the emergence of global and regional business powers. UK has a stake in international business, as shown in the essay below.

UK in International Business

1. UK Government role in international trades & international investment.

Sine time immemorial, the UK has been a key player in businesses around the world. This dates back to the Trans-Saharan trade, the triangular trade and the slave trade. During all these periods, ...

The article opens with definitions. “Community Economic Development” is presented as “a strategy that includes a wide range of economic activities and programs for developing low-income communities such as affordable housing and small business development.” A focus on job creation whether working with neighborhood businesses or industrial parks is central to the programs.
Economic development was a response to perceived problems of poverty. Associated with poverty is poor housing, lack of access to health care, a lack of jobs and a generally poor quality of life. Efforts to address these problems are very local. Community Development Corporations have developed ...

Article Reviews

The newly developed SASB allowed companies to take into consideration external events (Eccles, 2016) that cannot be controlled such as the effects of climate change. The reason for the accounting standard addition is that governments cannot ignore the effects on industrial markets and their investors (Eccles, 2016). The value of accounting standards is that it allows individuals, companies, and governments to generate wealth since it allows financial performance comparisons (Eccles, 2016). The problem is that there was no previous standard developed for nonfinancial performances (Eccles, 2016) especially on environmental and social activities.

Areas of Agreement

The advantage of the article is that ...

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Summary

The paper is based on the review of peer article “Management and Control of Overtime Costs” that has been written by Thomas P. DiNapoli in 2012. Thomas P. DiNapoli (2012) in the article made an attempted to analyze the effectiveness and control system of overtime costs of HHC’s (New York City Health and Hospital Corporation) employees. For the attainment of this purpose, the researcher audited the organization from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2009.

Background

DiNapoli analyzed the overtime payments of 2009 of 54 employees of HHC. The research presents the salaries ...

International Business

Culture Risk, the European Union and the United Kingdom
Introduction

Financial risk is not the only risk that faces international business managers. Now-a-days there is financial risk, culture risk and even environmental risk which must be determined. The United Kingdom has a special relationship with the European Union. The difference with the biggest impact for businesses is the fact that the UK did not adopt the single currency, Euro, with the rest of the European member countries.

This paper addresses the reasons the UK didn’t sign on to the single currency. Also a discussion is offered to try to ...

Introduction

The article concentrated on acquiring a superior comprehension of variables that impact the E&P venture administration achievement and corporate money related execution inside Petrobras S.A. The goal of the present study is to get a superior comprehension of variables that impact administration achievement and corporate money related execution of E&P activities. The article speaks to contextual analysis in a Brazilian oil organization, depicting basic variables keeping in mind the end goal to gauge venture administration achievement and corporate money related execution (Salazar-Aramayo et al., 2013, p.589). The model created is a hypothetical develop known as an auxiliary and estimation ...

ARTICLE REVIEW

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Global v/s Multinational

Article Review
Introduction
There is no doubt that today’s business environment has changed. Over the past few decades, the rise of transportation, communication, technology and cross cultural integration across the world has seen the rapid rise of consumerism and increasing wants and needs on a global scale. In the article named ‘Globalization of Markets’, (Levitt, 1983), sees the demise of the quintessential multinational corporation and proposes the emergence and ...

Article Identification

The video under evaluation is drawn from the Benevon firm. The CEO, Terry Axelrod teaches nonprofit organizations how to obtain sustainable funds.
Benevon (2012). Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit 55-Minute Recorded Seminar. Retrieved April 30, 2016 from http://www.benevon.com/fundraising-training- video.

Summary

Terry coaches and trains non-profit firms on the use of the Benevon Model. The paradigm is an initiative that is mission-based to enable the development of relations and engagement with donors. When molded to serve the customized interests of every NGO, the Benevon structure creates passionate investors who are dedicated to the long-term economic stability of the NGO. The ...

The article “Corporate Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management” (2011) provides in-depth analysis of the corporate entrepreneurship and its capacity to renew and innovate. The article covers some theoretical issues of entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship, and the role of human resource management. The case of Montalt-Valencia Company is used to analyze how the theoretical notions are applied in practice.
The topic of entrepreneurship has been given a lot of attention in the academic literature. Joseph Schumpeter and many other economists focused on the analysis of an entrepreneur in the role of a discoverer or exploiter of opportunities. Lee, Periz-Ortis and ...

In his book information and the Crisis Economy, Herbert I. Schiller contends that the current proliferation of information activities and increasing sophistication of information technology they demand are the result of efforts to control the political, economical, and cultural strains produced by a general crisis in the world market system. This is a review of chapter seven of the book ‘The prospect for democratic communication.’ Schiller opens the chapter by stating that the communication process could serve constructive motives if it could draw the attention of people to the problems they face as well as offering a channel for the presentation ...

The Capitalist Culture

Culture is the most active element that charges the human civilization to further branched out and cut across all the aspect of life such as technology. In the capitalist world, there is a great desire towards the novel and original. This continuous search for novelty and change surpasses the extent of proportions of actual change that has occurred in the society. Further, this cultural desire is already being legitimized, such that the society accepts the role to see the culture as a norm and a moral tradition where the emerging new culture could be sized up and be critically evaluated. It is ...

Modern Organization Theory

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.
The systems approach theory pictures an organization as an open and organic system that has several subdivisions that make up the whole ...

As urban centers have grown and more members of society has become less involved in agricultural practices, the connection that people have had to the environment has also become more distant than in previous generations. During the last couple of hundred years, fewer people than ever are more aware of how important it is to protect the earth on which we live and the natural resources that it has to offer. This has become even more evident during the 20th and 21st centuries, expedentially each decade.
Most people in industrialized nations, before sustainability efforts came into the forefront ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 is a law that was enacted in United States to set standards for all public companies, management and all accounting firms. It brought many changes to the regulation of corporate governance and financial practice in public companies. The act was named after senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael Oxley who drafted the bill. The Act contains eleven sections. The act is applicable to all public companies in United States as well as multinational companies with registered securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The main aim of SOX was to improve accuracy and reliability ...

Article review: corporate culture

This article looks at the various ways through which organisational culture can be changed. It also acknowledges the difficulty in changing an organization’s culture and goes on asserting that the culture of an organization constitutes various facets including set goals, peoples’ roles, organizational processes, different values and variant communication processes.
This essay provides a review of this article by focusing on the central theme of corporate culture change. The article focuses on the dynamics involved in changing the culture of an organization. In its introduction, it confirms the fact that it is not easy to change the organizational ...

Technology: IT in the medical field / Outsourcing in IT

Cedars-Sinai Doctors Cling to Pen and Paper

Computers are becoming an integral element in our daily lives, and the medical field is not an exception. This is because of their ability to store enormous amounts of data and fast information processing capabilities and intelligence (Bansal, 2004). Computers play an integral role in medical operations ranging from aiding complex medical operations to simple procedures such as file and record keeping. Ceci Connolly notes a typical case in Los Angeles whereby Cedar-Sinai doctors are clinging to the traditional pen and paper to undertake their daily operations at the hospital. The effectiveness of ...

Federal Taxation Paper Analysis

Section one – Summary of Article one:
Taxation has been an important topic for researchers and policy makers as well and has been an important source of revenue for the government. In multiple courtiers, it has been a source of economic growth (Palomba, 2004). The aim of this assignment is to determine the two tax related articles and present the summary of those articles.
This section presents the summary of the article “Effects of Income Tax Changes on Economic Growth” written by William H. Gale and Andrew A. Samwick in 2014. The paper analyzes the ways in which the imposition ...

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Chapter 4 - Acquisition and Measurement
Many Happy Returns
It is essential for organizations to assess the financial impact of the investment in a new form of technology. This can be best achieved through evaluation of the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the returns on investment (ROI). This can be achieved through simple calculations, payback data and economic value analysis. The lack of a proper quantification method can lead to tremendous losses.

Concepts to Clusters: The Real Technology Chasm

Investment in appropriate forms of technology can yield tremendous success for any company. Since constant evolution of technology enhances its quality and overall service delivery, it ...

TOMS Shoes LLC was profit oriented company and transformed into a social kind of enterprise. It sells products for profit and, at the same time, donates another kind of product needed by the poor in the country. Its website defines the company as a “One-for-One Company” and uses the slogan “With every product you purchase, TOMS will help a person in need. One for One.” Although the company had from the outset wanted to help people improve their lives through its products, TOMS did not actually achieve that and ended up operating purely for profits. The author reflected on ...

Article Review

Heidrick & Struggles International is an incorporated global executive search firm for management at the senior level. The firm is also the first leadership advisory in the world. The firm’s main focus is on quality service and building of strong leadership teams. This is achieved through its relationship with its clients worldwide. The firm offers services that include executive assessment and professional development.

The company conducted research on ethics and corporate governance. Other research partners included Neisendorf & Associates, which is a human resource risk management and consulting firm, and Lore International Institute, a talent management and professional development firm. The report ...

A consolidated tax return is a return filed for all the different segments of a business, it also includes the return filed by a holding company along with its subsidiaries. A consolidated return shows the consolidates income as well as the expenses. The advantages of filing a consolidated return is that the profits of one company as written off with the loses of the other, there is a tax advantage on inter company distributions, the un used credit of one company can be transferred to the other company and the capital gains and losses can be adequately adjusted. Disadvantages of the same are that ...

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

Summary
The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage” by Paul Krugman highlighted that the government’s decision to privatize prisons and related public services, such as halfway houses, has come to face its consequences—escaped prisoners committing crimes all over again, sometimes even worse than what they have been convicted for. Krugman cited The New York Times’ investigative reports on this issue and case stories on what has been taking place in the state of New Jersey. These studies reveal that such private facilities are inadequately managed, with insufficient number of personnel, and poor prisoner monitoring equipment. However, Krugman also ...

Situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting

Opportunity is one aspect that may lead to unethical practice in accounting. Accountants normally encounter or are involved in transactions that have large sums of money changing hands. As such, the constant access to this money may provide the best opportunity for an individual to start siphoning small amounts of money, which cannot be easily recognized since the transactions deal with huge amounts of money. For instance, in transactions that involve billions, an accountant may decide to be siphoning as little as 100 dollars. Increasing financial needs make people to seek opportunities that may lead to unethical practices.
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Business Modeling

Abstract
The objective of business modeling is to collaborate specific goals for businesses and organizations and forming them as part of a whole of a business strategy. Businesses and organizations, particularly large ones with multitudes of divisions and departments, follow integrated practices, although separately, but work toward achieving the same results. The dynamics of business modeling is set to create a renowned value for an organization’s structure, infrastructure and policies. In theory and practice core values are what form an organization’s rationale such as social, economic, or cultural. Seemingly internal stakeholders are often oblivious to applications as long as ...

Communication challenge is experienced in several corporations in the management body. .Boris Grasberg with Michael slind, discusses the sense behind communication in ensuring efficient management of a corporation. The article tries to demonstrate how worldwide companies are making use of multi-directional communication to enhance good leadership. .emphasis on bottom-up communication is the center of the authors’ argument that disregards top-down communication.
The article mentions four important aspects of good conversational leadership that encompasses aspects of inclusion, intimate relations, open interactions and how they apply to particular attributes within the corporation. Performance of the company reflects the nature of communication ...

Executive summary

This article discusses the topic are there issues with revenue –neutral carbon tax as reported on the wall street journal of April 17th 2013.with increased campaign on the need for reduction on emissions that have caused an increase in the quantity of green house gases that have led to dramatic climatic changes.
According to the Washington post of 25th April 2013, it’s depicted that, “For years it’s been obvious in policy-wonk circles that a carbon tax is a great idea.”
Many nations especially the developed ones like those in Europe have in America have opposed this move ...

The survey intends to assess this relationship and how it impacts on business performances. There have been numerous studies on relationships between financial and social performances, but none of the studies provides findings on the importance of disclosures. According to the study, annual reports and accounts disclosures are sufficient elements that should be considered in social performance measurements. The significance of the survey is further explained by the fact that social reports and disclosures are only made by large firms with no audit records. This implies biasness in such reports; hence they are not sufficient tools to assess business ...

Who invented the Telephone

Mr. Beauchamp’s article recounts how United States patent law ensured Alexander Graham Bell came to be recognized as the sole inventor of the telephone and how the company/corporation he founded took a singular court argument and built it into a monopolistic enterprise, the premiere corporation in the world by mid-20th century. In particular, he claims that the development of U.S. patent law in the 19th century ensured this success while at the same time abetting litigation by numerous parties who wanted to secure the benefits of being recognized as the inventor of the telephone, or to undermine Bell’s claim ...

ARTICLE REVIEWS

Orlitzky, M., Schmidt F. L. and Rynes, S. L., 2003. Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis, Organization Studies, 24 (3), pp. 403-441. [online] Available at: < http://oss.sagepub.com> [Accessed 13 February 2012]

Article Outline

This study intended to show that sufficient data could be gathered to establish a relationship between CSP (Corporate Social Performance) and CFP (Corporate Financial Performance).

The authors asserted that an organization’s operations and strategies in the non-market and market environment affected the organization’s performance. Despite the inconclusive findings of previous studies on the relationship between CSP and CFP, the authors believed that these studies provided conclusions ...

Reading “The Disposable Worker” from the January 7, 2010 edition of Businesweek is a real eye opener. The idea of an employee working for one corporation for his or her entire career is a thing of the past. Corporations hire employees on an as needed basis to meet their business requirements. This can take the form of hiring temporary workers through agencies such as Manpower or it can take the form of hiring freelance workers for a particular project. When these business needs are met, the employee is suddenly out of work, thus creating the disposable worker.
The main theme of ...

Transnational Google Corporation is known as one of the most famous companies in the world. Google Corporation occupies leading positions in the rankings among the best companies and is considered to be the best employer in the world. This is due to its personnel policy, system of motivation, as well as providing the freedom for engineers to implement their own projects. This is a global company, which offers the search in all languages and has representative offices in all regions of the world. In the era of globalization this is extremely successful strategy, especially for companies with a computer ...

The financial managers are facing different challenges on a daily basis. Their duties consist of the preparation of reports, providing an oversight role in the function of accounting, managing cash of the company, and engaging in planning and investment strategies. Therefore, they are required to uphold the highest ethical standards. Ethics are the set of principles that are grounded on performing the right task by maintaining the moral values where the individual or business operates.

Article 1: The Challenges of Business Ethics – Management and the Question of Ethics

According to this article, ethics management may be considered as the component of the corporate social responsibility (Jamnik, 2011). Over the past five decades, ...