1) Antitrust: Commission fines banana suppliers € 60.3 million for running price cartel, EC IP/08/1509, October 2008, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-08-1509_en.htm 2) COMMISSION DECISION of 15 X 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty Case COMP/39188 – Bananas, COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Brussels, 15 X 2008, http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/cases/dec_docs/39188/39188_2291_2.pdf In 2008, the European Commission, found that the banana importers
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Progressive Era through the Great Depression Joana Lewis Joel Goldstein, PhD. Contemporary U.S. History August 2, 2012 Although women spear headed many significant Progressive era reforms, they were still denied the right to vote. This became increasingly problematic once more and more women understood that individuals in the Industrial Age were buffeted by social and economic forces that were beyond their control and that required the involvement of the
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held to product safety laws concerning product liability. Product liability is the responsibility of people, sellers and manufacturers concerning death, damages or injuries due to defective products (Wild, 2010). Another type of business law is an antitrust law that keeps companies from market sharing, price fixing, and monopolizing an industry. There are many government agencies that control business law. Some examples are the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S.
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fastest-growing and most lucrative areas of the field. Firms can no longer afford to remain within their country’s borders. The global economy forced the expansion of many traditional areas of law to include foreign nations. Overseas corporate liability, antitrust and securities actions, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and global Internet commerce are some of the fastest growing international fields that require cross-border legal advice. In order to successfully litigate overseas, many lawyers
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how long it takes for the project to recover its initial costs for funding the project. The Net Present Value shows how the present project will affect the company. The Internal Rate of Return reveals the discount rate if the NPV equals zero. The antitrust law is a federal and state law regulation of corporations. The law insures that company does not grow too large which may prevent the growth of other corporations. The government believes that without this law that prices can become fixed and demand
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National Football League Players Association Jim VanHatten HRM 531 July 25, 2012 Sandra Akbar National Football League Players Association This is a paper discussing the effects of the union on the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Specifically, four topics will be addressed – the benefits of joining a union, the unionization process, how the union bargains, and the effects union bargaining has on the NFLPA. NFLPA’s Benefits of Joining a Union The initial reasons for
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EGT1 Task 3 There are four major pieces of antitrust laws passes the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton Act of 1914, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, and the Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950. The Sherman Act of 1890 prohibited the conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce, it also made it illegal to monopolize and part of trade or commerce. The Clayton Act of 1914 outlawed price discrimination, the tying of contracts, the acquisition of stocks from a competing company, and the formation of interlocking
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Chapter 18: Agency Law Agency law is a large body of common law that governs agency; it is a mixture of contract and tort law. An agency is a principal-agent relationship in which a principal hires an agent to act on the principal’s behalf. There are four ways to form an agency, they include; express agency (the most common), implied agency, agency by ratification, and apparent agency. The only one not bound by contract is agency by ratification; the principle must ratify the contract. Both the
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"Microsoft Corporation, is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries as of July 2006. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the
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2009 Peng, Sun, Pinkham, and Chen A R T I 63 C L E The Institution-Based View as a Third Leg for a Strategy Tripod by Mike W. Peng, Sunny Li Sun, Brian Pinkham, and Hao Chen Executive Overview This article identifies the emergence of the institution-based view as a third leading perspective in strategic management (the first two being the industry-based and resource-based views). We (a) review the roots of the institution-based view, (b) articulate its two core
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