Dissertations / Theses: 'Corporationts'

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kang, Helen Hyon Ju Accounting Australian School of Business UNSW. "Reporting intangible assets: voluntary disclosure practices of the top emerging market companies." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Accounting, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31211.

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The purpose of financial reporting is to provide information that is useful for decision making. Recently, however, there has been a systematic decline in the usefulness of such information. Indeed, the current reporting model seems to be no longer sufficient mainly due to the fact that it ignores many of the nonfinancial intangible factors which are increasingly becoming important in determining corporate value and performance. That is, there is a need for the traditional reporting model to be modified or at least broadened to reflect Intangible Assets (IA) in order to enhance the usefulness of information being provided to different stakeholders. In the absence of mandatory reporting requirements, one alternative way of disseminating information regarding IA is to engage in voluntary disclosure practices. It has also been suggested that companies which would benefit the most from such practice are those originating from emerging economies looking to expand into international markets. While there exists an array of empirical studies which have examined the voluntary disclosure practices of corporations from developed economies, less considered are the reporting practices of emerging market companies regarding their IA. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the voluntary disclosure practices of the top 200 emerging market companies regarding the variety, nature and extent of IA and to consider some of the factors that may be associated with the level of such disclosure. Using a disclosure index based on the Value Chain Scoreboard??? (Lev, 2001), narrative sections of the 2002 annual reports of the top 200 emerging market companies are analysed. The findings indicate that emerging market companies engage in voluntary disclosure practices in order to disseminate different varieties of mainly quantitative IA information to their global stakeholders. Further, the variety and the extent of IA disclosure are associated with corporate specific factors such as leverage, adoption of IFRS/US GAAP, industry type, and price to book ratio. Contrary to the existing literature on voluntary disclosure, however, firm size and ownership concentration are not found to be associated with the IA disclosure level. Country specific factors such as the level of risks associated with economic policy and legal system are also found to be significantly associated with the IA voluntary disclosure level.

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Cooper, Alan Jeffrey. "Governance of Hong Kong companies." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31264621.

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Haddadin, Fadi. "Critique of shareholder status in Jordanian corporate law : a comparative approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64279.pdf.

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Kruchen, Carsten. "Europäische Niederlassungsfreiheit und "inländische" Kapitalgesellschaften im Sinne von Art. 19 Abs. 3 GG /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995466602/04.

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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.
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.

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Brimble, Mark Andrew, and m. brimble@griffith edu au. "The Relevance of Accounting Information for Valuation and Risk." Griffith University. School of Accounting, Banking and Finance, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030829.120234.

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A key theme in capital markets research examines the relationships between accounting information and firm value. Two concerns relating to the value relevance of accounting information are: (1) concerns over the explanatory and predictive power of the evidence presented in the prior literature (Lev, 1989); and (2) the evidence of a deterioration in the association between accounting information and stock prices over the past four decades (Collins, Maydew and Weiss, 1997; Francis and Schipper, 1999; Lev and Zarowin, 1999). These concerns provide the key motivation for this thesis which examines: (1) the usefulness of the clean surplus accounting equation in valuation; (2) the role of accounting information in estimating and predicting systematic risk and; (3) the changing nature of the relationship between accounting information, stock prices and risk over time. The empirical research provides evidence of the value-irrelevance of the clean surplus equation and that controlling for the functional form of the earnings-returns relationship is more important. Evidence is also provided that accounting variables are highly associated with M-GARCH risk betas and also possess predictive ability relative to these risk measures. Finally, the relationships between stock prices, risk models and accounting information are shown to have not deteriorated over time, contrary to prior evidence. Rather, the functional form of the relationship has changed from linear to a non-linear arctan association. Overall, accounting information continues to play the central role in the determination of stock prices and risk metrics.

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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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Fleck, Denise L. "The dynamics of corporate growth /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37891.

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The thesis aims at contributing to clarify broad conjectures on growth, such as, (i) the extent to which growth constitutes an imperative for the firm, and (ii) what leads some firms to enjoy continuing growth and a continued existence, while others, after experiencing continuing growth, end up contracting and decaying. As a result, the thesis seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms fostering and precluding growth, while also identifying challenges and opportunities in managing growth.
The thesis comprises four interrelated essays: (i) Chandler on the growth of the firm---this essay scrutinizes The Visible Hand (Chandler, 1977) seeking to answer the question "What is Chandler's theory on how and why did the modern business enterprise (MBE) appear and grow?" Four processes are identified---MBE formation, MBE development, industry formation, industry development. Their analysis within a process-oriented view (Mohr, 1982) discloses chains of necessary conditions in growth-related processes. Moreover, two growth-related dilemmas are advanced and the firm-industry co-evolution is explored. (ii) Identifying the building blocks of growth dynamics---this essay addresses the question "Which are the basic processes of change that form the dynamics of growth?" Drawing on Mario Bunge's philosophy (1973--1989; 1979), a framework of qualitatively different modes of change is derived. The framework allows the identification of elementary units of the growth dynamics. These comprise the following types: quantitative, qualitative (dialectical), goal-directed, interactional, causal, structural, random. In addition, complex units of growth dynamics made up of combinations of elementary units are also advanced: evolutionary motor of firm growth, co-evolutionary motor of growth relating firm and industry, and different instances of continuing growth motors. (iii) Describing growth trajectories of firms---the question "How can growth trajectories be represented?" is addressed in this essay. An indicator of size, which automatically adjusts for inflationary and deflationary changes in currency value is proposed. This indicator enables the drawing of growth trajectories of firms in the economy over long periods of time. (iv) Growth trajectories of General Electric and Westinghouse: a comparative study---this essay addresses the question "Why do some firms experience continuing growth and continued existence while others decay and disappear?" The growth trajectories of

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Birke, Kai. "Neutralitätspflicht der Hauptversammlung im Übernahmeprozess : Desinvestitionsentscheidung versus Kollektiventscheid bei öffentlichen Übernahmeangeboten /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015021867&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Wong, Chi-hung. "Urban renewal policy in Hong Kong : an analysis of its formulation and implementation /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21037954.

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Kim, Keeho. "A Test of Allocational Market Efficiency in Takeovers Using Tobin's q Theory of Investment." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332371/.

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The primary purpose of the study was to investigate whether takeover markets are allocationally efficient using Tobin's q as the variable which summarizes the investment opportunities of firms. Chapter I presented the purposes, hypotheses, methodology, and limitations of the study. The two hypotheses proposed were as follows: Acquiring firms' q should be significantly higher than that of control firms, on average, and target firms' q should be significantly lower than that of control firms, on average. Chapter II presented the review of literature on takeovers and theory of investments. Chapter III presented the research design adopted to test the above hypotheses. The methodology to calculate q-values and methods to reduce the bias which may result from choice-based sampling were also given. A paired comparison t-test was employed to test the hypotheses. Sample firms were selected from the COMPUSTAT RESEARCH and COMPUSTAT INDUSTRIAL tape.

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Hu, Zhenhua. "Two essays on corporate income taxes and organizational forms in the United States." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-01122006-165007/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
Gregory B. Lewis, Committee Chair ; Douglas Noonan, Committee Member ; Sally Wallace, Committee Member ; Michael Rushton, Committee Member ; Bruce Seaman, Committee Member.

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Niemeyer, Carl Michael. "Der Schutz inlandischer Glaubiger bei Errichtung grenzuberschreitender Niederlassungen /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014912927&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Koch, Moritz. "Die Vinkulierung von GmbH-Anteilen und ihre Auswirkung auf Umwandlungsvorgänge /." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016029726&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.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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Al-Hamadeen, Radhi Mousa. "Assurance of corporate stand-alone reporting : evidence from the UK." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/423.

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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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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.
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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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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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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Gubbins, Forero Guillermo. "La "Corporation"." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116717.

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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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Deng, Lin, and 鄧琳. "Critical assessment of the reform in respect of the statutory minimum registered capital system of the company law of China (2005) indealing with undercapitalization with reference to Hong Kong'sexperience." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42664226.

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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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Kornmann, Jan, and Marcus Adolfsson. "CSR activities within service corporations : A case study about how four legal jurists and their service corporation conduct CSR activities with primary focus on SME law firms." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13108.

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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to interview four legal jurists in order to explore how they conduct CSR activities within their service corpora-tion, with primary focus on SME law firms.

Background: A current issue to address concerning the conduct of business these days is CSR activities. Although, the previous research concerning CSR activities and the service sector is limited.

Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework is divided into four parts; a general part concerning the concept of CSR activities, a review of earlier studies of CSR activities, the stakeholder theory and finally the theory about the triple bottom line.

Method: A qualitative case study was employed in order to answer the purpose. The most suitable research approach was a combination of a deductive and partially an inductive approach. The primary data consisted of semi-structured interviews. The secondary data were used in order make a comparison in relation to manufacturing corporations.

Empirical findings & Analysis: As for all corporations an integration of voluntary social and environmental concerns in their business operations are considered as CSR activities. A significant concern is CSR activities that the inter-viewed service corporations experienced was the lack of human and economic resources to deal with CSR activities. Furthermore, the lack of stakeholder pressure does not facilitate the matter of implementing more CSR strategies into the corporations‟ business conduct. As a result of the lack of stakeholder pressure the interviewed corporations tend to only take part in CSR activities that create goodwill value for the corporation. According to the interviewed service corporations CSR activities is a new phenomenon that is likely to become a bigger part of their business conduct in the future.

Conclusion: The interviewed corporations tend to focus their CSR activities to-wards the social activities since this is the kind of activities that is closely connected to the core business.

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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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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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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.
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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