Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the UK

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ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves with differentiating right from wrong and doing right (Scott, 2007). CSR is the compulsion to make choice and take actions that will contribute toward the wellbeing, interest, and benefits of the society as well as the company. 1.1 Problem of CSR CRS does not act like law which require people to follow. In contrast, it covers wide range ...

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Institutional Holdings and Corporate Governance

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CHAPTER IV As noted earlier, the need for corporate governance arises from the potential conflicts of interest among participants (stakeholders) in corporate structure. These are often referred as agency problems arise from two main sources. First, different participants have different goals and preferences. Second, the participants have imperfect information as to each other's actions, knowledge and preferences. Berle and Means (1932) addressed these conflicts by examining ...

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Effects of Corporate Scandal on Governance in the UK

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1.1 Introduction The aim of this thesis is to examine the evolution of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom and the affects which corporate scandals had on it. This aim is achieved through the following objectives: The development of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom. The affect of corporate scandals on stakeholders. Corporate scandals and Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance has been a source of discussion among ...

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Comparison of Corporate Governance in UK and US

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Corporate governance in theory and practice CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Modern public industry crashes in the United States and the United Kingdom have left a destructive arouse. Regulators over the world are limiting reclaims to develop criteria of corporate governance in common traded industries with the intention of securing against a return of Enron, WorldCom, or Maxwell-style industry fails. While reclaims to corporate governance functionalities are necessary, ...

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Importance of Corporate Governance for Fraud Prevention

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In the era of globalisation, corporate scandals are no longer shocking news in corporate world. A recent corporate fraud has happened in Paris in Societe Generale Bank, where an employee committed a fraud of GBP 3.7 billions. It is not a new story for the corporate world as it has seen cases of BCCI (Bank of credit and commerce internationals), Polly Peck, Maxwell, Allied Irish Bank, ...

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MNE Selection Techniques for International Assignments

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Chapter1 Introduction The world has become the global village and globalization has become an important tool for the organizations to be successful in this rapidly changing world. So the coordination between different cultures and people with different backgrounds is increasing in a different multinational organization day by day. So it is very important to study that how the organizations deal with the multicultural set ups within ...

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Consumer Motives for Charity Donations

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1. Introduction Consumer motives and behaviour into donating to charity in general is a topic that is known to have a lack of research, creating an issue of ambiguity for charitable organisations. Most research existing is based on cause related marketing, the cooperative alliances between charities and corporations to gain charity funding, yet little in depth research exists on the area of personal financing from consumers ...

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Are Automotive Manufacturers more Socially Responsible?

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To what extent are car manufacturing firms operating in a more socially responsible manner when designing environmentally friendly cars? Abstract Social responsibility is one of the key differentiators between modern corporations, and is seen by many analysts as an antidote to the past few years' trend towards the demonisation of corporate institutions. The recent economic crisis, in particular, has led many observers to argue that corporations ...

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Nike's Competitive Advantages: Strategies in China

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With widely globalization movement, managers in MNCs have to be continually involved into the challenges that mainly include competitive and collaborative challenge. Facing the challenges, Nike has always been a leading sports product organization. Thus, it is meaningful to analyze Nike's global success which will benefit from obtaining relevant international management issues. The aim of this project is to reveal Nike's competitive advantages in global market ...

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Monetary Incentives as Employee Motivation

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Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Background to Context In a highly competitive business environment organisations have to generate and sustain higher profits to survive and achieve stable growth in future years within the context of globalisation (Wolfson, 1998:5). The easiest and most practical method of generating profits is to increase the level of sales in a company. This level of sales can be increased through various methods ...

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Enhancing Competitive Abilities for Airline Companies

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Case of Air China Abstract This study examines the strategic, performance and learning issues confronting the Air China, in the aftermath of the Open Skies agreement between China and the United States. It uses a comparative perspective of United Airlines to examine Air China and the Chinese airline industry in context of ‘open skies', and in contrast to the wider global airlines industry. This is a ...

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Competition vs Collaboration

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Competition versus Collaboration Studying so much about collaboration within and outside the organization made me curious about the competition element. So I tried to find out where does the competition lies when we are talking about Collaboration.Christiansen (2000) says that for 'creativity' and 'innovation', it is important to consider whether 'collaboration' or 'competition' is valuable. Although there are some downsides with collaboration like: collaborative group working ...

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Quality Circle Activities at Hindustan Zinc Lilmited

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A PROJECT ON VALIDATING “COMPETENCY MAPPING” FOR ATTAINING THE BEST “QUALITY CIRCLE PRACTICES” AT HZL Executive Summary Successful quality circles offer a wide variety of benefits for businesses. They talk about the perceptions as well as employee's awareness, increase management's awareness of employee ideas, as well as employee awareness of the need for innovation within the company. Adding on, quality circles can improve a business's competitiveness ...

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing

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Outsourcing Robert and Gordon (1996) claims that outsourcing has expanded considerably over the last two decades. The reason behind this expansion is that economies of scale became more apparent in the recent years than it was earlier. Outsourcing is a management approach that involves delegation of an activity to an external service provider which was previously performed internally (Lankford and Parsa, 1999). The activity must have ...

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Business Analysis of Comestibles Aldor S.A.

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Executive Summary It is not common when a company like Comestibles Aldor S.A. opens itself to investors. Aldor is an extremely liquid company that is extremely successful and ambitious, but wants something more. It is the type of company that looks for something else, someone that is willing to put more than money into a company, an individual that feels they are part of the organization. ...

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Analysis of Clarks Competitive Strategy

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This dissertation is about competitive strategy and how the author believes that the organisation ‘Clarks’ have used competitive analysis techniques to address the downfall in their profits, turn around sales and return to profitability.  The dissertation will also look at attitudes towards Clarks during the last 4 or 5 years and whether recent increased marketing activity, during 2004 and 2005, has changed public perception of the ...

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Causes and Effects of Organisational Structure Change

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ABSTRACT This dissertation will help to understand the reasons, why organizations change and its affect on the organizational structure. To comprehend the selected topic various secondary sources from the public domain has been taken. Information from these sources has been addressed under the heading 'literature review'. It gives an overview of the triggers of change in the first section with special reference to role of the ...

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Role of Human Resource Managers in Diversity Management

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the background of the research on “How can international human resources managers effectively manage diversity in multinational company?”- Case study Tesco. The company overview of Tesco in UK, background of the research, organisation background, rationale statement, research questions, and purpose of the research conducted the aim and objectives of the research identified by researcher. The structure of the dissertation is ...

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Toyota's Innovation Management and Success Factors

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 Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project Background The primary reason for choosing this research topic is my genuine interest in cars and my intention to work in the automobile industry. And there could not be a better topic than to study the most significant change at the top which is the emergence of Toyota as the global leader. Although a lot has been written about Toyota, but ...

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Effectiveness of the World Cup Campaign on Lafarge Concreto

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Executive Summary Primarily the study aims to give the reader an insight into the Indian Cement industry. The project aims to profile and understand the effectiveness of the World Cup campaign of Lafarge Concreto cement. The first phase will be to know the competitors of different brand of PSC cement in eastern India and analysis of their promotion by secondary research. The second phase will be ...

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Issues with Offshore Call Centres

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Advancements in communications, software development and other technologies have enabled practically every type of business to expand its services to off-shore locations with the probable choices of countries where both the infrastructure and specific needs of the clients can easily be met. Examples of such services include but are not limited to call-centers, as also the subject of our present dissertation, back office operations, insurance claim ...

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Questionnaire Design for Business Research

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INTRODUCTION: Many businesses, economic and social questions are not amenable to a simple YES or No answer. Every business needs some clarification or discussion. Solutions can be presented and every criterion can be either accepted or rejected. To consider the arguments and indeed the facts presented, the completeness of current information and the requirements for new information need to be assessed. Decision maker not only need ...

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Issues with Business-to-consumer E-commerce

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Introduction: The long-term prosperity of business-to-consumer e-commerce depends upon the existence of consumers' confidence and the availability of adequate supporting legal framework with effective means of enforcement. Because of the technological development e-commerce industry is growing with enormous speed. Majority of consumers prefer to buy products online and make electronic transactions with companies situated outside their national boundaries. The expansive use of e-commerce and the existence ...

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Open Source vs Closed Source Systems

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INTRODUCTION For many years, proprietary software has been the dominating business approach used by the commercial software firms. Industry giants like Microsoft proved this strategy to be successful, building their multibillion dollar empires based on the proprietary software platform. Over the past decade, a new business approach called open source model which involves contributors from around the globe to create, share and distribute software code for ...

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Business Plan for Record Label

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Business Planning Introduction to unit eight coursework In this unit, I have the opportunity to structure a business plan for a business proposal, which I will have the opportunity to create. For this segment of the assignment, I will clarify the main activities of the business, in addition to its aims and objectives. The assignment will also be focusing on the marketing and financial planning of ...

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Analysis of Ethiopia for Business Opportunities

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1. Introduction 1.1 The Country Ethiopia is almost five times bigger in the size of the United Kingdom and 27 times in the size of the Netherlands, is geographically located in the east of Africa with border line Somalia(1626 km) from east , Eritrea(912km) on north ,Sudan(1606 km) from the west and Kenya (830 km from the south. Ethiopia has geographically importance due to easy access ...

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Expansion Analysis for BMW

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1. Prepare and implement a plan for the collection of primary and secondary data for assessing an area of business of your choice. a. Develop and use a questionnaire and justify its design for a particular purpose. 1.1 Research Topic General Area of interest: - Expansion & Diversification of Business. Specific sub area of interest: -BMW's expansion in car segment in Mumbai, India. More specific topic ...

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Soft Skills Importance in Organisations

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1 Introduction & Background 1.1 Introduction Business concerns with people. It's about communication, coordination and relationship. Although business success is based upon logical acts and thoughts, the human element cannot be ignored (Armstrong, 2006). That's why strong soft skills are vitally important. Organisations and businesses are established with one thing in mind that is to earn revenue for their stakeholders. Revenue is earned by selling products ...

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Vodafone Analysis: Marketing Mix, SWOT and PESTLE

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OBJECTIVES OF THE BRAND AUDITING To know the these days market scenario of Vodafone Cellular Services w.r.t. not only the Indian, on the other share extremely for the field - wide Cellular Services. To know the Marketing-Mix of the Vodafone Services. To find elsewhere the customer response for the Vodafone Services. BACKGROUND OF THE CELLULAR Utility INDUSTRY In November of 2006, India reached 100 ...

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Role of the Brand in Developing Customer Loyalty

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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Nature of Assignment · My project is about “The Role of Brand in the Development of Customer Loyalty”. · It's the part of MBA and it is the requirement of my institute, “THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES”, for the completion of our degree. · The purpose of project is to determine the role of brand in the development of customer loyalty. After completion of this ...

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Business Management and Change at Billabong (BB)

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HSC Topic One: Business Management and Change Case Study - Billabong Management Theory Behavioural Management Theory Creative thinking and innovation are of greater importance than ruthless efficiency. Managers see their roles primarily as motivating staff & communicating the company's vision to customers & stakeholders. Workers overcame problems and gave input into the way Billabong was run. Primarily to do with business culture and lack of ...

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Best Practice in Staff Training Processes

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1. INTRODUCTION People performance is a critical enabling factor that influences the potential of an organisation to achieve its objectives. Successful organisations ensure that they maintain an environment which enables the full potential of their people to be realised. They also ensure that they align their staff management objectives with the organisation's objectives. Training is an important activity undertaken to ensure employees at all levels have ...

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Market Study of Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited

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1.1 Problem Background Bangladesh paint market is experiencing a good growth of 8-10% per annum consistently in the late 90s and early years of this century mainly because of a boom in real estate development[1]. Besides, this trend in growth of demand is likely to persist or may even witness an upswing in the future as the country moves from rural base to urban base project ...

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Consumer Perceptions of Non-Banking Financial Institutions

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Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI) v/s Banks in India – Why NBFI are doing much business than Banks? A study of New Delhi based Upper and Middle Class Consumers. Master of Business Administration ABSTRACT In the era of globalization and liberalization the development of financial sector has played and important role in the economy of India. With the services offered by banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFI) ...

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Automobile Sector Analysis: Five Forces and SWOT

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1. Overview of the automobile sector Five forces analysis Competitive Rivalry between Existing Players: High Competition between existing automobile companies is high. Although the automobile market was dominated by the three big auto manufacturers in US, Toyota and Honda in Japan, the situation is changed. With the growing demand in emerging market, the emerging competitors in China and India may drive an intensified price competition. However, ...

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