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its distribution system. In fact, throughout the years, Blue Bell had crafted an image as being "the little creamery in Brenham" a...

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

of the accounting that produce the ratios the employees who do not have a direct impact will be considered first, and the director...

decision on this important topic, one should of course explore the firm and what it stands for. What is its vision and its mission...

innovative programs (Anonymous, 2003). For one thing, the medical center has developed a program with a local community college by...

and claims that if the library has the name of a company on it that does not change what is in the library (Thorne, 2008). To that...

increase value for stakeholders, including employees, customers and shareholders (as well as society). A solid corporate complianc...

2007, p. 36). Solomon sums up this overall philosophy towards ethics by writing, "Ethical thinking is ultimately no more than cons...

and executive pay. This measure requires companies to place before its shareholders any executive compensation packages in an effo...

merger, middle management and staff are not allowed to discuss the merger or have any impact on the decision to merge but they hav...

Talks about the role of corporate governance and the Australian Stock Exchange in HIH's failure and collapse. There are 12 sources...

quality audits and staff - the company valued the quality audits more than short-term profits (Brickley et al, 2006). During the e...

they get paid. The owner needs to scrutinize the books to see if there is any way to offer some sort of benefit to potential sales...

place, but there is little in the way of coercion. The company gives freely and there is no quid pro quo. An example of a good con...

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

and education services, corporate activities affect everything from air and water quality to the "availability of life-saving drug...

2001). In this perspective it is believed the company should behave honestly, but that the primary stakeholder group remained the ...

chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...

it might seem as though corporate social responsibility and the bottom line are mutually exclusive, the literature sees this somew...

the forefront of technology."4 Their executives offices are also sparse. The Chairman brags that the companys administrative offic...

British Petroleum, which now incorporates Amaco, is highly active within the energy sector, specifically the oil industry. The wri...

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

put forward by Friedman with the argument that the responsibility of a business is purely to its shareholders, undertaking actions...

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

company tried for nearly ten years to succeed but it did not. There were just too many differences between how the U.S. manages co...

feature of limited resources, it has become a feature of the culture that encourages and facilitates team work with the ability to...

how this plan was brought into being and this, as well as anything, is a good discussion about BMWs corporate culture. Jurschick a...

looking at two countries in the EU; the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany, these differences may be appreciated. To consider this we...