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The Development of Corporate Governance in China
The history and legal framework of corporate governance for listed companies in China Prior to 1978, most Chinese companies were state owned enterprises with strong government influence. The government set targets and an agenda and the individual business and managers were measured against those targets. In 1978, the government decided to reform the state owned enterprises and focus on the process to improve corporate governance measures and allow for a market based system. The first
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A Cross-Country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance
A Cross-country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance Introduction During the last twenty years corporate governance has been widely researched, which has led to important findings with regard to ownership structure and its determinants. La Porta and Colleagues (1998) find that shareholder protection is positive correlated with widely held firms and larger financial markets. La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer (1999) subsequently find that countries with common law have larger financial markets and provide better
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Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance, Assignment II Problem 1 a) “If corporate debt is exposed to market risk, Modigliani-Miller’s proposition I will not hold.” FALSE MM1 states that the firm’s value is independent of its capital structure. MM1 doesn’t say anything about the riskiness of the debt. When the firm’s capital structure becomes more levered, the riskiness of the firm increases, but the firm value is unchanged. MM1 holds. b) “Because both bondholders and stockholders demand higher rates
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Business Communication Trends Research Paper
Business Communication Trends Research Paper Business communication takes place in almost every person's day to day life. Business communication is used in the conventional office setting, military, working from home, by mothers, and all over the world. When using business communication it helps to have an understanding of what needs to be communicated to get the intended message across. In this paper I will cover the role business communications play in my day-to-day activities, how
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Should People Take More Responsibility for Solving Problems That Affect Their Communities or the Nation in General?
People would rather fault the government for the problems in their life instead of taking responsibility and trying to find suitable solutions themselves. Taking responsibility for solving those issues which people can face in their community is vital to ensure the prosperity of the latter. Rafic Hariri’s experience and the American Revolution are good examples that illustrate the efficiency of people’s actions to overcome obstacles. A government has limited capital for its public system inclusive
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Communication Channels of an Organization
The book starts in the year 1863 with the narrator's uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushing into his house in Hamburg, Germany. Axel (the narrator) is left alone by the housekeeper Martha to argue with the professor because he is home so early. Otto Liedenbrock is a professor at Johannaeum. He is not a fast-talker, but is very capable at science. Axel his nephew is his laboratory assistant. Although he first tries to flee his uncle, Axel
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Communication Theory
Communication Theory Communication theory is the study by which information passes from one medium to another (Griffin). Communication theory is important for all businesses to understand, since a business plan or strategy can not be successful without communication between workers. Communication theory focuses on the different ways that communication can travel from one person to another. Major communication outlets include direct communication, mail, phone, television, or computer. This essay will look at how the Army
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Demonstrative Communication
Demonstrative Communication Berlo (2010), in the Communication Process has defined communication as a method of passing information and messages from the sender to the receiver. To effectively communicate, one must incorporate verbal and non verbal modes of communication. In addition, one should use visual and written modes of communication to pass on thoughts, speech, information, writing, behavior and speech. Verbal communication includes many aspects including written and oral means of communication. On the other hand,
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United Technologies Corporation Case
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified company which provides a broad range of high quality technology products and services to customers. UTC has six subsidiary companies: Pratt and Whitney, Carrier, Hamilton Sundstrand, Otis, Sikorsky and UTC Fuel Cells. Every year, UTC spent a large amount of money on research and development in order to offer innovation and high-quality technologies, which brought big profit back to UTC as well. UTC Fuel Cells (UTCFC), now is
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Corporate Strategy
Introduction Tesco came into the Taiwanese retail market in 2000 carrying the title of the top retailer in the UK and one of the top 10 global retailers. Tesco has had a great and successful experience in building retail branding, so its market entry was believed to be a huge threat to existing rivals, e.g. Carrefour, RT-Mart and Costco. However, after five years, Tesco Taiwan failed its original intended aim to open 22 stores and
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What Are the Social Responsibilities of a Corporation?
What are the Social Responsibilities of a Corporation? The beginning of the 21st century has seen a heightened awareness of ethical issues mainly pointing towards corporate social responsibilities (CSR) of a corporation. Mallen Baker (2004) defines Corporate Social Responsibility as “how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society”. CSR does not mean mere charity through writing a cheque or providing monetary help to less privileged school or hospitals. It
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Microsoft and Apple Corporation - Fiscal Year 2010 Report
Microsoft and Apple Corporations Annual Report Comparison The purpose of a corporate annual report is to communicate to stockholders and other interested parties its financial statements. The annual report is a summary of the corporation's operations over the previous twelve months time period and states the corporation's plans for the future. Many annual reports are created to resemble a corporate brochure, using lots of pictures, color, charts and graphs. Despite the fancy look, however, the
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Financial Analysis of Dollar General Corporation
Abstract This paper focuses on financial analysis of Dollar General Corporation as one of the best company that one can invest in, and how the company performs financially with its annual operations. I will also discuss the company’s overview, evaluate the company’s vulnerability to current threats and stock price analysis. Managers and investors can also benefit from the understanding of the financial statements, when making importance decision about the operations of a company. Financial management
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Megahertz Communications
Megahertz Communications was having a hard time being paid on time because lots of the countries that they were under-developed. Many of their customers were inconsistent with the payments and were unreliable. One alternative would be to turn to the banks for loans in order to increase the working capital. However, this did not work because the banks were under different fluctuating currencies that proved to be too much of a risk for the bank
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Relation Between 'the Maverick' and 'the Corporation'
Organizational behaviour is the study of what people think feel, and do in and around an organization. This could be at an individual level, team/group level, or organization wide. The book and movie combination chosen are: Maverick, by Brazilian author Richardo Semler, and the movie The Corporation by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bankan, to look at two different perspectives of organizational behaviour in businesses. The word maverick means a lone nonconformist, as an
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Chevron Corporation Case
Environmental risk is the possibility of degradation of the environment owing to human activities , resulting in direct or indirect harm to people. A good example is the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, which exposed the tremendous risks associated with poor safety and environmental management practices. Thousands of people lost their lives after methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. Thousands more were injured and left homeless. Memories of Bhopal are
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Business Communication
Proposal Outline 1. Introduction 2. Our Aim 3. Proposed Solution 4. Value Proposition 5. Clientele/fees 6. Who we are Introduction In today’s world, competition is fast, fierce and furious. Every Organization is looking for that competitive edge that will make them light years ahead of competition and the most talked about way of achieving this is through excellent customer service delivery. Excellent customer service delivery results in increased customer satisfaction and ultimately increased profit Stenic
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Communication Strategies
Communication Strategies Communication Strategies Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. How that information is transmitted can come from several different means. Non-verbal, verbal, written and visual are just a few of the ways in which we communicate information to each other. As each person is different so is the way they communicate. Whether it is a gesture, hand shake, eye contact or a simple smile non-verbal communication is done with no words. This
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Case Study: Black & Corporation (a): Power Tools Division
Case Study:Black and Decker Corporation (A): Power Tools Division 1)Introduction: Black & Decker (B&D) corporation is a one of the most successful company that manufactures power tools, accessories, electric lawn, garden tools and residential security hardware. B&D’s sales reached a $4.8 billion in 1990, with nearly 50% of its product revenues generating from outside of the United States and 29% of its sales being from power tools and accessories. B &D is one of the
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Corporate Leadership
Introduction I got goose bumps interacting with the distinguished speaker’s, as I had some remarkable insights during the Corporate Leadership module. Since I am deeply influenced by Charisma as a leadership theme, in the reflection essay below I have tried to weave a brief chronicle contemplating some of my learning’s during and after the module, experiences and thoughts about leadership and in specific changes to beliefs about Charismatic leadership. 1. Charisma: The absolute must Charisma
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Business and Communication
Define communication and describe a face-to-face communication session between 2 people with reference to all the steps outlined in the communication model to promote effective comunication. Include all measures one shall take to ensure that the meeting place and the way the comunication takes place is ideal to assist in the understanding of all the information details. (500-1000words) Communication is a process of transferring information from one entity to another. Information can be a lot
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Inter Cultural Communication
Executive Summary This case study reflects on inter- cultural communication conflict. Japanese culture is collective in nature while Australian culture tends to be more individualistic. The non- defined goals in the beginning between both coordinators also ensued problems. As according to negotiation process, goals should be defined, then setting of roles should be done and then in the end, procedures are carried out. Because of the lacking of communication from the Sam’s side and lacking
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Skilled Incompetence/betrayer of Culture - Why M. Butterfly Receives Criticism in Asian Community
Skilled Incompetence/Betrayer of Culture ---Why M. Butterfly receives criticism in Asian Community M. Butterfly is an epoch-making work which strongly voices against stereotypes towards the Oriental and their culture. The great play breaks the weak and feudal image of the Oriental while portraying a ridiculous spy story, or, love story. Yet pitifully, maybe there's some skilled incompetent content so that some Asian readers got annoyed rather than pleased. Two types of content may turn out
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Corporate Finance Case
CORPORATE FINANCE 1) Valuation formulae Let V be the present value of an asset or security that pays cash flows in the future, where the last cash flow is to be received at time T (note that, if cash flows are to be received forever, then T = ∞). Let CFt be the cash flow to be received at time t, and let rt be the appropriate discount rate for the period from now to
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Ncr Corporation V. Korala Associates Ltd
NCR Corporation. v. Korala Associates Ltd., 512 F.3d 807 (6th Cir. 2008) NCR: Plaintiff and Appellant v. KAL Assoc., Defendant, LTD - Appellee Background. NCR is a leading ATM and related equipment, hardware, and software producer. NCR developed software applications for Windows operated ATMs (i.e., APTRA XFS) and OS2 operated ATMs (S4i). In 1998, the U.S. based NCR and the Scottish KAL entered into a contractual agreement, which asked KAL to develop and license software
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