1:01 pm Page 25 Corporate Social Responsibility as Capability The Case of BHP Billiton Leeora D. Black Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility; and Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University Corporate social responsiveness is what companies do in order to be socially responsible. This paper presents a case study of social responsiveness at the global mining firm BHP Billiton to illustrate a model of social responsiveness capabilities. Until now, corporate
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transactional leadership and team leadership. The study discusses about the theories of leadership in terms of behavioral and situational theories. The current study has been explained with the real time examples of corporate like Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Introduction The characteristics and progress chart of the have been much desired and focal point of study for all the scholars and researchers. The policy decision making and purposeful action in the area of economic development and
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384 of the textbook. 5. A market analyst predicts that the expected return on the All Ordinaries Share Price Index will fall by 10% this year. Telstra has a beta of 0.51 and BHP Billiton has a beta of 1.17. (a) What would you expect to happen this year to the return on an investment in (i) Telstra and (ii) BHP Billiton? (b) If you accept the analyst’s prediction, should your investment portfolio contain shares with mainly high value or low value betas? 6. Problem 21, p. 385 of the textbook
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Situation Analysis Problem statement: How should BHP find itsorientationof social responsibilityand in the whole society what kind of social responsibility should it take? Frame of reference： This problem should be analysis onsocial responsibility levels. What kind of responsibility should undertake by the Mineraland resources enterprisein the society, and what kind of responsibilityshould be taken by stakeholders. Issues Internal BHP as a world's largest mineral enterprisehas 35,000 employees
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DRAFT Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Australia: Policy Issues for the Resource Sector Peter Drysdale Crawford School of Economics and Government The Australian National University and Christopher Findlay School of Economics University of Adelaide Abstract The last nine months has seen Chinese foreign direct investment in the Australian resource sector become an issue of policy interest. There are two big questions that the prospects of a significant rise in foreign direct investment
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Peak Potash? Utilizing available resources has allowed for great expansion in the global food production industry. The use of fertilizers has enabled increased production but has also caused a reliance on potash, a non-renewable resource. The article titled "Peak Potash – What Our Government Doesn't Want Us to Know," argues that global production of potash has already peaked on the Hubbert cycle and inevitably the industry will collapse in the near future. Evidence presented in the article
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INDIA’S IRON ORE (Reuters) - India, in its crusade against illegal mining, has choked its iron ore output and exports so hard that many companies are giving up on the sector. The mining and export bans in the key states of Goa and Karnataka have brought miners and other businesses to their knees, forced steelmakers to buy iron ore abroad and seen hundreds of thousands laid off. Following is a timeline of key developments in India's iron ore sector since Karnataka introduced its shipments ban:
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High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Electrical Trades Union Friends of the Earth North Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance The Wilderness Society Cover picture: Mine tailings dam failure at Merriespruit, South Africa gold mine. On the day of the failure 50mm of rain fell in 30 minutes, comparable to flooding rain quantities
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To: Iman EL Meniawy From: Mathieu Theriault, Consultant for Ram Horn Consulting. Date: November 24, 2014 SUBJECT: Canadian Operations Analysis Memo Thank you for allowing me to work and share my findings of Cameco to you. As requested, I have evaluated the business, industry, and issues Cameco currently face. My analysis uses a few citations related to the industry. Based on my analysis, here are some of my thoughts on current opportunities, threats and
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------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary There has been a lot said in the media about the Australian share market volatility. Market volatility has wiped 15% from the value of the Australian share market since March 2010 (Cain 2010). In volatile markets, it is common to feel uneasy about investing due to the risk involved. But, market volatility is completely normal and the current market conditions may actually be advantageous for some investors. For example, volatility
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