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Deng, Lin. "Critical assessment of the reform in respect of the statutory minimum registered capital system of the company law of China (2005) in dealing with undercapitalization with reference to Hong Kong's experience." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42664226.
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Cronjé, Christo Johannes. "Corporate annual reports (CARS) accounting practices in transition /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11262007-135312.
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Ahmed, Hameed, and Ali Najam. "How Corporate Governance Affects Strategy of Corporations : - Lessons from Enron Corporation -." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5891.
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<p>Corporate governance is a subject of academic and professional debate. It has and it will continue to be a topic under scrutiny for subsequent deliberations since there are many different research dimensions and contexts associated with it. However, it has been observed that the linkage between corporate governance and strategy of a corporation remains as an untapped area with considerable avenues of research. This paper tends to explore this linkage, using Enron scandal as backdrop.</p><p>In the aftermath of the debacle of US energy giant Enron in 2001, the significance of corporate governance has come under heavy scrutiny of different researchers. Whereas different explanations have been attributed to its downfall, it has been widely accepted that this was a case of failed corporate governance.</p><p>This paper tends to explore Enron downfall from the perspective of failed corporate governance. By defining and exploring corporate governance and its underlying issues, the authors have used Agency theory as a theoretical framework in unison with internationally renowned auditing company - Ernst & Young Model - to understand the role of different actors and forces responsible for Enron collapse.</p><p>By using qualitative research method, the authors have used secondary literature as well as combination of questionnaires and telephonic interviews to obtain viewpoint of renowned international academic / professional researchers. They have been identified through convenience sampling methodology. A few internationally renowned auditing companies have also been used as part of this survey to explore diversity of perspectives in this context. Efforts have been made; to explore the main causes rather then to write just another case on Enron.</p><p>After drawing lessons from Enron, the paper concludes with the understanding that there is direct link between corporate governance and strategy of corporations. However there is diversity of perspectives in this context and hence it requires further exploration and debate.</p>
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Abdul-Rahim, Hassan M. "An Analysis of Corporate Accounting and Reporting Practices in Bahrain." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278500/.
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The primary objective of this dissertation is to determine the factors that have shaped the corporate financial reporting practices in Bahrain. Prior researchers have offered two explanations, environmental factors and cultural importation, for the emergence of financial reporting practices in developing countries. The environmental explanation suggests that a nation's financial reporting practices will be shaped by its socioeconomic structure. The cultural importation explanation states that the desire for international legitimacy creates incentives for developing nation to adopt Western financial reporting practices. Bahrain provided an excellent environment in which to examine the two explanations since its public and closed corporations have similar economic characteristics. Only public corporations are legally required to publish financial reports. I posited that public corporations would try to gain legitimacy for their published reports by adopting Western standards, while closed corporations would not have a similar incentive. I used an interpretive framework to analyze the Bahrain socioeconomic environment and to examine the general financial reporting practices of Bahraini corporations. I found that closed corporations provided data responsive to the Bahraini environment. Public corporations, however, adopted International Accounting Standards. My analysis supported prior researchers7 findings that colonialism, the need for international legitimacy, and international audit firms were important factors in gaining acceptance for Western accounting practices. The adoption of Western financial reporting practices may be dysfunctional to a developing nation like Bahrain if these practices do not provide relevant information about corporate performance. Therefore, Bahrain, as well as other developing countries, needs to proceed cautiously before adopting Western corporate reporting practices.
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Langenmayr, Dominika. "Taxing corporations." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-162486.
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Kirby, Douglas A. "Builiding the integrated network corporation : an examination of U.S.-based corporations in Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104474.
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Khabarova, Anja. "Multinational corporations in Mexico." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2422.
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In this thesis I have examined the role of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in fuelling hostcountries economic developments. By looking closer into Mexico and the case of automobile industry which has been historically the subject of control of foreign affiliates I observed coinciding patterns. Through North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the channels between trade and investments have become more obvious and even transparent. Speaking about Mexico’s economic developments, albeit the total volumes of trade have increased, the country’s terms-of- trade were deteriorating following the post-NAFTA years. While conducting the research I have made use of neo-liberal economic discourses, theories of international trade and investment in order to explain the underlying motives for free-trade. These motives offer solid arguments to adopt the strategy of export orientation. While investigating the investments form multinationals and comparable Mexican trade performance, I have fund that exports and FDI flows have seemingly unrelated. The country has been a significant receiver of foreign imports at the time of post-NAFTA developments and huge FDI inflows. The result was that capacity of domestic production was limited and the trade imbalance ensured. Analysis explores closer relation between FDI and the country’s import levels which cause deterioration in the terms of trade and economic growth. The explanation lies in the nature of FDI per se. The type of investment in Mexico is essentially market-seeking, since it adjusts to the international competitive pressures, and search access to comparatively advantageous foreign markets, explained by the theory of capital movements. This paper also questions and raises concern with regard to the consequences of these pressures that leads to race-to-the-bottom policies.
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Cater, Charles. "Corporations, Resources and War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503955.
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Tully, Stephen. "Corporations and international lawmaking." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1887/.
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Public international lawmaking is a multipartite process of communication wherein only States as authoritative decision-makers produce international law. However, commercial entities have long been active within the international legal order and employ international law to curtail the right of States to regulate at national levels. Evidence suggests that the international legal personality of corporations is undergoing further qualitative transformations. Corporations influence the State practice constitutive of custom and affirm, add detail to or challenge prevailing normative rules. The corporate role in filling lacunae where States are unable or unwilling to discharge their regulatory responsibility is apparent in the context of intergovernmental codes of conduct and private voluntary initiatives. Although the procedural law common to Conferences of the Parties indicates that a 'right of participation' is yet to emerge, ECOSOC-accredited non-State actors enjoy a legitimate expectation of admission. Furthermore, the modalities for their participation include the formal opportunity to make oral and written statements and to undertake informal activity. Corporations occupy an important role in subsequent treaty implementation as illustrated by the legal regime for climate change. Finally, corporations develop procedural law and substantive norms through selective resort to different enforcement models including national courts, diplomatic protection (including the WTO) and direct arbitral action (including NAFTA). The challenges of business engagement include identifying majority opinion, discerning commercial intent and managing confrontations with developing States or other non-State actors. Diversity and evolution characterise the practice of UN secretariats and a one-size-fits-all approach is not currently feasible or desirable. Acknowledging commercial contributions more accurately reflects the negotiating process inherent in lawmaking and the role of States in mediating contested policy questions. Corporate contributions through, in parallel with or collaboratively with States can be consistent with democratic theory by enriching intergovernmental deliberations. However, they can only ever augment the underlying basis of international law: State consent.
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Tseung, Pui Heng Debbie. "Corporations and Rawlsian justice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f6e2e03d-0e32-42a5-b14d-c27f96e399fd.
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Corporations - their power and impact on society - are a neglected topic in political philosophy. In this thesis, I attempt to address this neglect by using the framework of Rawlsian justice to examine what corporations' relationship to social and international justice ought to be. The first part of the thesis is on domestic social justice. I urge that Rawlsians should not begin their inquiry by taking the corporate form as given because the corporation's existence requires a specific set of private-ordering and property rules to be in place. What we should ask, instead, is whether these rules are actually permitted by the two principles of justice as fairness. This question leads to an examination of different economic regimes that are compatible with Rawlsian justice. I focus on one particular regime - that of property-owning democracy. What I find is that while not all versions of property-owning democracy would permit the corporate form, some would actually welcome it due to the feature of 'the separation of ownership and control' that is typical of modern corporations. The second part of the thesis is on international justice. I argue that the best way to situate corporations in Rawls's theory of international justice - his Law of Peoples - is to connect them to the duty of assistance. This is not a straightforward task because a relatively strict reading of the duty of assistance would disallow treating corporations as primarily responsible for discharging it. However, a revisionist approach to the Law of Peoples shows that we can understand the duty of assistance as a part of transitional justice. The significance of this is that Rawls's prescribed ideal theory of international justice does not determine who the agents for transitional justice ought to be or the grounds for attributing responsibility to such agents. We are thus free to adopt David Miller's criteria for attribution of remedial responsibilities to assign to corporations responsibilities for the duty of assistance. What is more, in a particular area of international justice - that of fairness in trade - we can establish that corporations can be primary agents of transitional justice.
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Rubner, Daniel. ""Solvat socius" statt "caveat creditor"? : Zur Haftung des GmbH-Gesellschafters wegen sog. existenzvernichtenden Eingriffs /." Baden-Baden : Nomos-Verl.-Ges, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013319637&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Rosique, Gil Francisco. "The determinants of corporate growth /." St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/918.
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Wu, Wenjie. "Growth opportunities, state shareholding and corporate policy choices of listed Chinese firms /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?FINA%202002%20WU.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Boman, Alexandra, and Nora Elvin. "VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES AND TRUST IN CORPORATIONS : A study of listed corporations in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15407.
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Over the past decades, major changes have been noticed in annual reports. For instance, annual reports have become more comprehensive. Today, corporations can partly decide what to include in their annual reports. This is called voluntary disclosures. Furthermore, corporations chose to disclose pictures, narratives and other graphics material in their voluntary disclosures. This, to give an image of the corporation. Moreover, voluntary disclosures could impact shareholders’ trust towards corporations. Therefore, it is of interest to investigate whether shareholders trust is affected by the voluntary disclosures in annual reports. The purpose of this study is therefore to examine in what way shareholders have increase trust in corporations based on the voluntary disclosures, including marketing aspects, that corporations publish in their annual reports. Furthermore, corporations view of the voluntary disclosures in their annual reports connected to shareholders trust are also examined. This study was conducted with a qualitative research method. The empirical findings were collected through semi-structured interviews with both shareholders and listed corporations in Sweden. During these interviews, both shareholders and corporations answered questions regarding their view of the annual report, its voluntary disclosures and trust. After completing this study, the authors identified parts of the voluntary disclosures that shareholders consider more interesting in trust purposes. For instance, more information about the CEO and managers increase trust among shareholders. Moreover, all shareholders emphasized that transparency and honesty were two factors that have a positive effect on trust. This is something the corporations showed awareness of. They disclose succinct and informativevoluntary disclosures rather than increasingly comprehensive.<br>Under de senaste årtionden har stora förändringar i årsredovisningen skett. Ett exempel är att de ökat i omfattning. Företag har idag delvis frihet att själva bestämma vad som ska ingå i deras årsredovisning. Denna del kallas för den frivilliga informationen. Vidare kan företag med hjälp av bland annat bilder, berättande text och annat grafiskt material måla upp en bild av sig själva. Detta är något som kan ha en påverkan på aktieägarnas upplevda tillit gentemot företagen. Därför är det av intresse att studera huruvida aktieägarnas tillit påverkas av den frivilliga informationen i årsredovisningar. Syftet med studien är således att undersöka hur aktieägares tillit påverkas av ökad frivillig information som företag väljer att publicera i sina årsredovisningar. Studien kommer även att undersöka om marknadsföringsaspekter i årsredovisningar ökar aktieägarnas tillit. Vidare kommer det även undersökas hur företag ser på den frivilliga informationen och marknadsföringsaspekterna i deras årsredovisningar som ett sätt att öka aktieägarnas tillit. Denna studie genomfördes med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod. Därmed samlades studiens empiri in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med både aktieägare och svenska börsnoterade företag. Under dessa intervjuer fick både aktieägarna och företagen svara på frågor gällande deras syn på årsredovisningen, dess frivilliga information och tillit. Efter genomförd studie har författarna identifierat delar i den frivilliga informationen som anses vara mer intressant i tillitssyfte. Ett exempel är att ökad information från VD:n skulle öka tilliten hos aktieägarna. Vidare pratade samtliga aktieägare om att transparens och ärlighet är två faktorer som påverkar tilliten positivt. Detta behöver inte innebära mer information utan det kan även betyda att det ska vara kvalité på den information som företagen publicerar i deras årsredovisningar. Detta är någonting som företagen även identifierat och satsar därför på att publicera kortfattad och informativ frivillig information i sina årsredovisningar.
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Yeung, Au Lai-Kit Rikkie. "The governance of government-owned railway organisations in Hong Kong integration and autonomy in changing times /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31057925.
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Braun, Hendrik. "Die Befreiung vom Pflichtangebot nach dem WpÜG : zugleich eine vergleichende Untersuchung zum Recht des Vereinigten Königreichs, Österreichs und der Schweiz /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990355306/04.
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Ting, Antony K. F. (Antony Ka Fai). "The taxation of corporate groups under the enterprise doctrine : a comparative study of eight consolidation regimes." Phd thesis, Sydney Law School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11993.
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Yick, Ho-yin. "Tax asymmetry, investment decisions and capital structure." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4098798X.
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Lindström, Dag. "Skrå, stad och stat : Stockholm, Malmö och Bergen ca. 1350-1622 /." Stockholm : Almqvist och Wiksell, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35512925f.
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Lattemann, Christoph, Sören Kupke, Stefan Stieglitz, and Marc Fetscherin. "The governance of virtual corporations." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1998/.
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The concept of the virtual corporation (VC), which describes a modern form of collaboration among organizations, was introduced in the scientific discussion in the mid 1990th. The practice shows that VCs need new forms of governance because the traditional mechanisms of control, management, and steering are hardly applicable. Until now there is only a few research related to the question how to govern VC. The main problems to govern a VC are to coordinate the communication among dispersed partners and to motivate employees to actively involve themselves into the network. Open source projects are confronted with similar problems. As several governance mechanisms are already analyzed in this context, the authors analyze and adopt governance concepts from open source projects to extract a governance framework for virtual corporations. This new approach leads to innovative insights in governing virtual corporations by using community techniques as an appropriate way for communication and collaboration purposes.
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Nayak, Raveendra, and raveendranayak@yahoo com au. "Developing sustainable corporations in Australia." Swinburne University of Technology. Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060320.110540.
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In the wake of the environmental degradation, social inequality and injustice, and the
incidents of corporate frauds and mismanagement reported in Australia, domestic
business organisations have been asked increasingly by Australian governments and
people to pursue sustainable business practices. As prime movers of creating wealth
and employment, business organisations have an important and legitimate role to play
in sustainable development, which is defined as a notion that meets the needs of
present without compromising the ability of future generations.
Corporate sustainability, which is a subset of the concept of sustainable development,
involves integrating financial, social, and environmental values into business policy,
planning, and decision-making requiring changes in organisational values,
perspectives, culture, structure, and performance measures. Many Australian
businesses are wary of meeting financial, social, and environmental objectives
simultaneously claiming the agenda as contradictory and almost unattainable, but the
demand for achieving corporate sustainability seems inescapable. Since Australian
businesses are facing a fierce competition in domestic market as a result of reducing
trade barriers, globalisation, and market deregulation, demanding them to contribute
more to sustainable development may appear to be unreasonable. Furthermore,
business managers are often wary of any organisational changes, as several of them
have failed in creating organisational value. As a consequence, business managers are
cautious of engaging in sustainable business practices.
In an attempt to unravel the above dilemma, this study mainly examined how to
enhance organisational value by sustainable business practices. It examined the two
dominant strategic management theories, i.e. Barriers to Entry theory and the
Resource-Based View (RBV) theory. It collected the data from 102 Australian
business organisations using a survey method. Based on its findings, this study makes a number of contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management.
Notable among them are, first, it shows that socially crafted business practices such
as knowledge management, customer relationship management, and stakeholder
management can have substantial leverage to building business competitiveness.
Second, it demonstrates that environment-oriented business practices can provide a
number of effective opportunities for increasing the height of entry barriers to new
competition. Third, this study concludes that social-oriented business activities are
almost ineffective as entry barriers to new competition. Fourth, it substantiates why
environment protection measures such as Environmental Management System (EMS)
are least contributing to business competitiveness. Finally, this study substantiates its
main claim that a business organisation can enhance its competitive advantage by
pursuing corporate sustainability principles. This study upholds the view that
business organisations have enlightened self-interest in following corporate
sustainability.
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Chan, Ka-keung Christopher, and 陳家強. "Control systems of multinational corporations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31263707.
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Bradshaw, Carrie Julia. "Corporations, responsibility and the environment." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1414312/.
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Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER)—that corporations can and should play an active role in the governance of environmental protection—is justified primarily by reference to the business case; the claim that behaving responsibly pays. In privileging a market voice for the environment, however, the business case alone is an inadequate justification for CER. As such, this thesis considers a qualitatively different justification: that there exists normative and pragmatic space for CER within contemporary approaches to environmental law and regulation. The thesis suggests that CER is best understood and justified by reference to the positive and normative implications of decentred regulation, where regulation is no longer the preserve of government and, in view of the limitations of governmental control, nor should it be. A waste-based case study illustrates the potential and limits of CER in this regard. However, this normative space for CER in decentred environmental regulation is not mirrored within corporate law and governance. Notwithstanding references to the ‘environment’ in the Companies Act 2006, the theoretical orthodoxy and its influence over the positive mainstays of UK corporate governance regard environmental concerns as largely irrelevant to company law and decision-making. In order to remedy this problematic position of corporate environmental irrelevance, as well as to more generally enhance CERs limited normative appeal, the thesis examines the nature and location of a voice for the environment within corporations. It argues that intra-corporate environmental voice should be enhanced through company law, providing environmental management systems (EMSs) as one possible example of ways in which company law might provide room for corporate environmental conscience to breathe.
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Latypov, Gennady. "VALUING CORPORATIONS USING REAL OPTIONS." Kyoto University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/124101.
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Karayianni, Fotini. "Reorganization on employee satisfaction: The gray area of corporations : A case study on Intel Corporation’s employees." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44171.
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The present thesis exploits a concept that lays in the core of human capital, employee satisfaction, under the context of a proactive organizational change. The prior literature depicts organizational change as a strategy applied to increase the efficiency of the company and its relevance to the market involved. The unique element of the matter is that proactive reorganizations are a product of a structural practice initiated by an entity’s human resources department. The department operates under a standardized model of change, which focuses on addressing the technical discrepancies that may occur in the human capital. Mainly analyzed from a company’s perspective, its influence on the employees involved in the change is often been neglected. The thesis was conducted in an effort to assess the need for a change in the current model in order to better address employee’s needs. To achieve that a sample of 100 Intel employees was used to uncover the state of the employees’ job satisfaction after an organizational change has been taken place. Results of the analysis exhibited above average overall satisfaction scores. The areas that employees seem to be the least satisfied were that of job security and company’s policies. Moreover, the elements of culture and the type of reorganization have also seemed to influence the overall satisfaction scores. Upon viewing the results the authors concluded that a need does exist, for a more interpersonal human resource approach to be incorporated within the current reorganizational model of an entity.
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Shane, Daniel. "The Modern Day Corporation: A Philosophical Analysis of How Corporations Behave and How They Should Behave." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/582.
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We seem to hold corporations to an impossible standard. We call for profit maximization, but at the same time want to place strict limits on the methods corporations may use to obtain them. In this thesis, I explore two popular theories of the corporation: stakeholder theory and shareholder theory. I examine the degree to which each theory explains the corporation as it exists today, as defined in the law and through its behavior, but also the theories‘ normative appeal. I conclude by positing what I find to be the best normative account of the corporation: a theory of how we should structure the corporation in the United States so it is the most morally-defensible.
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Wang, Zhimin. "Cost of capital and return on capital : U.S.-based multinational corporations versus U.S. domestic corporations /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594481961&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Singh, Anil. "The information technology, risk and return triad : a longitudinal analysis of corporate financial data /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Tanimura, Joseph Kiyoshi. "Taxes, financial distress and capital structure in the United States and Japan." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8745.
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Eichler, Dirk. "Capturing the value of corporate real estate portfolios : separate or integrate? /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940909.
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Jackson, Mark. "Book-tax differences and earnings growth /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10224.
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Eisenberg, Christiane. "Deutsche und englische Gewerkschaften : Entstehung und Entwicklung bis 1878 im Vergleich /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36631651n.
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Cho, Wonsang. "Human resource management policy in Japanese manufacturing firms in the United States /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978251.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-153). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978251.
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Fracassi, Cesare. "Social networks and finance." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872060441&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Choi, Youngrok. "Taxes and corporate capital structure /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115535.
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Moyen, Nathalie. "Financing investment with external funds." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0019/NQ46396.pdf.
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Ngai, Tin-ming Tony. "Evaluating strategic options for China business : perspective of the Chinese family firm /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14040323.
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Nilsson, Per. "Conceptual Product Development in Small Corporations." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Maskinteknik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4821.
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The main objective of the thesis “Conceptual Product Development in Small Corporations” is by the use of a case study test the MFD™-method (Erixon G. , 1998) combined with PMM in a product development project. (Henceforth called MFD™/PMM-method). The MFD™/PMM-method used for documenting and controlling a product development project has since it was introduced been used in several industries and projects. The method has been proved to be a good way of working with the early stages of product development, however, there are almost only projects carried out on large industries which means that there are very few references to how the MFD™/PMM-method works in a small corporation. Therefore, was the case study in the thesis “Conceptual Product Development in Small Corporations” carried out in a small corporation to find out whether the MFD™/PMM-method also can be applied and used in such a corporation.The PMM was proposed in a paper presented at Delft University of Technology in Holland 1998 by the author and Gunnar Erixon. (See appended paper C: The chart of modular function deployment.) The title “The chart of modular function deployment” was later renamed as PMM, Product Management Map. (Sweden PreCAD AB, 2000). The PMM consists of a QFD-matrix linked to MIM (Module Indication Matrix) via a coupling matrix which makes it possible to make an unbroken chain from the customer domain to the designed product/modules. The PMM makes it easy to correct omissions made in creating new products and modules.In the thesis “Conceptual Product Development in Small Corporations” the universal MFD™/PMM-method has been adapted by the author to three models of product development; original-, evolutionary- and incremental development.The evolutionary adapted MFD™/PMM-method was tested as a case study at Atlings AB in the community Ockelbo. Atlings AB is a small corporation with a total number of 50 employees and an annual turnover of 9 million €. The product studied at the corporation was a steady rest for supporting long shafts in turning. The project team consisted of management director, a sales promoter, a production engineer, a design engineer and a workshop technician, the author as team leader and a colleague from Dalarna University as discussion partner. The project team has had six meetings.The project team managed to use MFD™ and to make a complete PMM of the studied product. There were no real problems occurring in the project work, on the contrary the team members worked very well in the group, having ideas how to improve the product. Instead, the challenge for a small company is how to work with the MFD™/PMM-method in the long run! If the MFD™/PMM-method is to be a useful tool for the company it needs to be used continuously and that requires financial and personnel resources. One way for the company to overcome the probable lack of recourses regarding capital and personnel is to establish a good cooperation with a regional university or a development centre.
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au, M. Gollagher@murdoch edu, and Margaret Mary Gollagher. "Corporations and the Discourse of Sustainability." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100330.120930.
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The contemporary notion of sustainability is emerging as a political response to ecological and social problems associated with human development. It is a contested concept - eco-modernists interpret it as a call to rethink or adjust industrial production systems while others interpret it as a fundamental challenge to the dominant development paradigm.
Corporations are playing a key role in shaping the discourse. Many argue that since corporations have enormous influence in the global political economy, they must take the lead in the search for sustainability. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) promotes eco-efficiency - an eco-modernist stance - as the primary business contribution to sustainability. However, the potential of the corporate focus on efficiency to contribute to sustainability is a subject of debate.
In this thesis, I use a heterogeneous methodological approach to explore the interaction between corporations (with a focus on multinational corporations) and the discourse of sustainability in order to identify the potential for positive outcomes. I consider the compatibility of aspects of corporate identity and organisational structure to the ethos of sustainability. This leads to an examination of the meeting between corporations and sustainability as a reflexive process, paying particular attention to the ways in which language and mythology serve to uphold or transform existing power relations. I also explore forms of knowledge relevant to sustainability, comparing those that are typically emphasized in corporate enterprise with traditional, Indigenous and local ways of knowing that are essential to sustainability. The knowledge of classical equestrianism is used as an example in this analysis. Practical ways of including all these essential perspectives in the discourse are considered.
The thesis concludes that certain aspects of corporate identity, structure and function are incompatible with the ideals of sustainability and that these disparities must be borne in mind as corporations attempt to embrace sustainability. I contend that sustainability requires network approaches that integrate strong and weak relations as well as diverse values and forms of knowledge. Sustainability can only be achieved with broad civic engagement that allows the synergistic combination of all values and knowledges relevant to sustainability. Furthermore, I argue that while corporations orientation towards market-based strategies has significant potential to support sustainability, it is limited since the market is fundamentally constituted by a network of weak ties. Therefore the thesis argues that while corporations can provide significant benefits in terms of sustainability, they cannot be expected to lead the sustainability agenda as it requires discursive plurality. The efficacy of the corporate contribution to sustainability will be greatly enhanced if companies are guided by strong democratic processes of deliberation and community engagement.
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Kirkland, Lisa-Henrietta. "Introducing environmental management systems to corporations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0019/MQ26759.pdf.
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Li, Jian. "Corporate governance in China's listed corporations." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?MR16358.
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Potter, Christopher John. "Transnational corporations in international political economy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/219.
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This thesis examines the conceptualisation of transnational corporations by realism and neoliberalism within the discipline of international political economy. It initially considers, via case studies, the example of three 'transnationals' closing plants in northeast England in 1998/9, asking how those actions correlated with existing theoretical conceptualisations. From this analysis, a hypothesis is developed whereby all firms are seen as national constructs and, as such, subordinate to the state. Theoretical and academic legitimacy is then provided by considering the continued importance of the national in forming identity, how political schools of thought have sought to accommodate the national, and whether theories of the firm can explain national identity in abstract corporate bodies. An holistic theoretical explanation of the firm as a nationa' construct is reached, identifying national identity as the strongest social sphere influencing development of the individual self, with realist behavioural theories showing it as imported into firms as abstract social structures. This finds a political home in the Gramscian concept of the national popular. The North East of England is then used as the defined geographic region in which to test the hypothesis empirically via a synthesis of extensive and intensive research methods. Questionnaires to all firms with host operations constitutes the former, and the latter is provided by documentary evidence, the Internet and interviews informing case studies focusing on twelve of these firms with home bases in the United States, the European Union, Scandinavia and Asia. The testing fails to falsify the hypothesis, and the manner in which the case studies display their national identity is discussed. The thesis concludes by offering a new way in which a transnational corporation can be identified as conceptually distinct from other firms. It thereafter confirms that, failing to identify such a firm by the empirical testing undertaken, reinforces realist ideas of the firm in world order, whereas neoliberal ideas remain more in the realm of hope and/or expectation.
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Elseraiti, Alhussien Ramadan. "Earnings management in the Libyan corporations." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2011. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3262/.
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International accounting scandals around the world have triggered a wave of interest and discussion on the transparency and integrity of financial statements. Prior literature has stated that due to a variety of motivations and by using different techniques, the management of corporations might intend to influence the figures in financial reporting. The preferred term used in the accounting literature to describe this issue is 'earnings management', which is a very interesting and topical issue for researchers. Therefore, this research investigates the earnings management phenomenon in the Libyan environment. In this research, secondary data, which was accruals-based models, and primary data analysis, which included a questionnaire survey combined with semi-structured interviews, were used to achieve the objectives of this research, that are: to determine the existence and the direction of earnings management in the Libyan context; the motivations and techniques behind that; and the earnings management constraints, which include internal accounting standards, corporate governance mechanism and audit quality. The analysis of secondary data examined the existence and the direction of earnings management in Libyan companies. Accruals-based models were applied on a sample of state-owned and private companies. The results indicated that the majority of the companies that engaged in earnings management by using income-increasing policies accruals were state-owned companies. However, the majority of the companies that engaged in earnings management by using income-decreasing policies accruals were private companies. The above results indicated that there are linkages between the direction of earnings management and the nature of company ownership in the Libyan environment. Further, as regards the relationship between the direction of earnings management and company size, the results of the state-owned companies group indicated that company size was positively and significantly associated with discretionary total accruals. On the other hand, the results of the private companies group indicated that company size was negatively and significantly linked to discretionary total accruals. The primary data analysis was used to investigate three main issues: the motivations behind the practice of earnings management; the most frequently used techniques to practice earnings management; and the earnings management constraints, which include accounting standards, internal corporate governance mechanism and audit quality. These subjects were investigated by using a questionnaire survey administered to external auditors, financial managers and senior accountants, internal auditors, lenders, tax officers and accounting academics. Also, a series of semistructured interviews was combined with the questionnaire survey, which was conducted with selected respondents to the survey. Results indicated that the main incentives for practising earnings management in Libyan state-owned companies were: to mitigate the threat of displacement (i.e. safeguard job position) and/or enhance management reputation, to report profits, to increase the value of management compensation, and to meet regulatory objectives. On the other hand, the main incentives for the private companies were to decrease the amount of taxes and to enhance the chance of obtaining bank loans. Further, the results showed that manipulation of the value of inventory, improper assets revaluation, incorrect capitalising rather than expensing of expenditures, manipulation of accrual estimation, incorrect use of expenses on asset acquisition, and related-party transactions were the most frequently used techniques to practice earnings management in Libya. Finally, the results showed a consensus among respondents on the importance of accounting standard. internal corporate governance mechanisms, audit quality as policies to constraint earnings management in the Libya environment.
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Lobanova, A., Вікторія Олексіївна Щербаченко, Виктория Алексеевна Щербаченко, and Viktoriia Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko. "Personnel Selection System in International Corporations." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/87042.
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У роботі проаналізовано сутність поняття управління персоналом. Запропоновано різні підходи до формування політики відбору персоналу в міжнародних компаніях. Визначено критерії відбору працівників та фактори, що впливають на прийняття рішення про найм працівників на роботу.<br>В работе проанализирована сущность понятия управления персоналом. Предложены разные подходы к формированию политики отбора персонала в международных компаниях. Определены критерии отбора работников и факторы, влияющие на принятие решения о найме работников на работу.<br>The essence of the concept of personnel management is analyzed in the work. Different approaches to the formation of personnel selection policy in international companies are proposed. The criteria for selecting employees and the factors influencing the decision to hire employees are identified.
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Pan, Qing. "Measuring multinational corporations' reputation in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1998. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/146.
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Laffont, Amandine Claire-Marie. "Debt management of non-financial corporations." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/9172.
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Debt management is of high importance for financial professionals and is a complex managerial decision, since the uncertainty of business cashflows may undermine the availability of financing, stress business operations and diminish future growth prospects. Whilst the management of corporate debt has sparked much interest and been widely discussed in the academic literature, none of the existing theories address this problem comprehensively. This thesis considers debt management decisions in non- financial corporations; it tests empirically various existing theories, establishes several stylised facts regarding funding decisions and contributes to the current research by exploring the influence of industry specific factors, financial intermediates and market conditions on debt management. Using U.S. data at the company level, the first study explores the variation of debt maturity across industry. Also, using both European bond and loan aggregate data, the second and third studies are the first ones, which highlight the impact of financial intermediates on both debt issuance and debt maturity timing strategies. The present work therefore offers both a cross-sectional overview of debt management and an analysis of its dynamics over time. The results indicate that (i) in addition to firm's characteristics, the cross-sectional variation of debt maturity can be explained by industry specific factors, which are not captured in the existing literature, (ii) that the agency cost hypothesis appears to be irrelevant for large cap firms, therefore giving more weight to the maturity-matching principle and the signaling hypothesis in explaining debt maturity structure, (iii) that managers tend to time their credit borrowing spread when they issue bonds and switch to the loan market during high interest rate periods, therefore contradicting earlier claims that interest rate timing explains time-series variations of debt issuance and (iv) that while corporates debt maturity mirror government debt maturity when directly placed debt is considered, financial intermediates act as a barrier to corporate debt maturity timing strategy.
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Wagner, Hannes F. "Equity finance and control of corporations /." Berlin : dissertation.de, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/481918809.pdf.
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Gollagher, Margaret. "Corporations and the Discourse of Sustainability." Thesis, Gollagher, Margaret (2006) Corporations and the Discourse of Sustainability. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/1696/.
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The contemporary notion of sustainability is emerging as a political response to ecological and social problems associated with human development. It is a contested concept - eco-modernists interpret it as a call to rethink or adjust industrial production systems while others interpret it as a fundamental challenge to the dominant development paradigm.
Corporations are playing a key role in shaping the discourse. Many argue that since corporations have enormous influence in the global political economy, they must take the lead in the search for sustainability. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) promotes eco-efficiency - an eco-modernist stance - as the primary business contribution to sustainability. However, the potential of the corporate focus on efficiency to contribute to sustainability is a subject of debate.
In this thesis, I use a heterogeneous methodological approach to explore the interaction between corporations (with a focus on multinational corporations) and the discourse of sustainability in order to identify the potential for positive outcomes. I consider the compatibility of aspects of corporate identity and organisational structure to the ethos of sustainability. This leads to an examination of the meeting between corporations and sustainability as a reflexive process, paying particular attention to the ways in which language and mythology serve to uphold or transform existing power relations. I also explore forms of knowledge relevant to sustainability, comparing those that are typically emphasized in corporate enterprise with traditional, Indigenous and local ways of knowing that are essential to sustainability. The knowledge of classical equestrianism is used as an example in this analysis. Practical ways of including all these essential perspectives in the discourse are considered.
The thesis concludes that certain aspects of corporate identity, structure and function are incompatible with the ideals of sustainability and that these disparities must be borne in mind as corporations attempt to embrace sustainability. I contend that sustainability requires network approaches that integrate strong and weak relations as well as diverse values and forms of knowledge. Sustainability can only be achieved with broad civic engagement that allows the synergistic combination of all values and knowledges relevant to sustainability. Furthermore, I argue that while corporations’ orientation towards market-based strategies has significant potential to support sustainability, it is limited since the market is fundamentally constituted by a network of weak ties. Therefore the thesis argues that while corporations can provide significant benefits in terms of sustainability, they cannot be expected to lead the sustainability agenda as it requires discursive plurality. The efficacy of the corporate contribution to sustainability will be greatly enhanced if companies are guided by strong democratic processes of deliberation and community engagement.
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Gollagher, Margaret. "Corporations and the Discourse of Sustainability." Gollagher, Margaret (2006) Corporations and the Discourse of Sustainability. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/1696/.
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The contemporary notion of sustainability is emerging as a political response to ecological and social problems associated with human development. It is a contested concept - eco-modernists interpret it as a call to rethink or adjust industrial production systems while others interpret it as a fundamental challenge to the dominant development paradigm.
Corporations are playing a key role in shaping the discourse. Many argue that since corporations have enormous influence in the global political economy, they must take the lead in the search for sustainability. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) promotes eco-efficiency - an eco-modernist stance - as the primary business contribution to sustainability. However, the potential of the corporate focus on efficiency to contribute to sustainability is a subject of debate.
In this thesis, I use a heterogeneous methodological approach to explore the interaction between corporations (with a focus on multinational corporations) and the discourse of sustainability in order to identify the potential for positive outcomes. I consider the compatibility of aspects of corporate identity and organisational structure to the ethos of sustainability. This leads to an examination of the meeting between corporations and sustainability as a reflexive process, paying particular attention to the ways in which language and mythology serve to uphold or transform existing power relations. I also explore forms of knowledge relevant to sustainability, comparing those that are typically emphasized in corporate enterprise with traditional, Indigenous and local ways of knowing that are essential to sustainability. The knowledge of classical equestrianism is used as an example in this analysis. Practical ways of including all these essential perspectives in the discourse are considered.
The thesis concludes that certain aspects of corporate identity, structure and function are incompatible with the ideals of sustainability and that these disparities must be borne in mind as corporations attempt to embrace sustainability. I contend that sustainability requires network approaches that integrate strong and weak relations as well as diverse values and forms of knowledge. Sustainability can only be achieved with broad civic engagement that allows the synergistic combination of all values and knowledges relevant to sustainability. Furthermore, I argue that while corporations’ orientation towards market-based strategies has significant potential to support sustainability, it is limited since the market is fundamentally constituted by a network of weak ties. Therefore the thesis argues that while corporations can provide significant benefits in terms of sustainability, they cannot be expected to lead the sustainability agenda as it requires discursive plurality. The efficacy of the corporate contribution to sustainability will be greatly enhanced if companies are guided by strong democratic processes of deliberation and community engagement.
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Chadwick, Marcus. "The Overseas Private Investment Corporation political risk insurance, property rights and state sovereignty /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1857.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, 2007.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 16th July, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.