Executive Summary Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) continues to be recognized as an earliest franchising company around the world. Approximately 50% of KFC’s worldwide restaurant businesses are owned & operated by independent businessmen & women, KFC franchisees. KFC’s outstanding brand recognition, experienced management, high quality food, site development expertise, advanced operational systems & unique global infrastructure position them to capitalize on global opportunities. KFC is currently seeking
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dealing: a Hong Kong perspective Rita Cheung Subject: Criminal law. Other related subjects: Criminal procedure Keywords: Criminal charges; Hong Kong; Insider dealing; Prosecutions Legislation: Securities and Futures Ordinance 2003 (Hong Kong) Cases: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region v Ma Hon Yeung Unreported March 3, 2009 (Hong Kong) Hong Kong Special Administrative Region v Allen Lam Kar Fai Unreported July 20, 2009 (Hong Kong) *Comp. Law. 160 Introduction In Hong Kong insider dealing
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A CORPORATE PROFILE About Food & Water Watch Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources
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CREATION Summary : This paper analyzes the interaction between shareholder structures and the quality of the corporate governance structure in France using the value creation criterion. Using shareholder structures allows analyzing the performance of French firms and to measure an underperformance of “hard core” and diffuse ownership firms. This paper, updating results from Harbula (2004), also investigates the relationship between performance and shareholder stakes. Keywords: Corporate governance
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banking in the US, England, Europe, and elsewhere, financing governments, managing exchange rates, and supporting economic sectors by using ‘direct methods’ of intervention have been among the most important tasks of central banking and, indeed, in many cases, were among the reasons for their existence. The neo-liberal central bank policy package, then, is drastically out of step with the history and dominant practice of central banking throughout most of its history. Keywords: financing, institutions,
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On the Crisis Management of the Modern Enterprise BIAN Tingting1, 2, TAN Zhanglu2 1 School of Management, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China, 100101 2 School of Management, China University of Mining &Technology, Beijing, 100083 teacherbian@126.com Abstract: Modern enterprises are facing more and more crisis from the external environment. This paper starts from the four major foreign crisis management theories, then analyzes the main problems
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the key areas of modern linguistic theory and illustrates how an understanding of these key areas can guide and inform at least some of the decisions that translators have to make. It draws on insights from current research in such areas as lexical studies, text linguistics and pragmatics to maintain a constant link between language, translation, and the social and cultural environment in which both language and translation operate. In Other Words examines various areas of language, ranging from the
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listening video text. The current study investigated test-taker behavior on an L2 video listening test. Thirty-six test-takers were videotaped while taking a listening test composed of six separate video texts, and the amount of time test-takers made eye contact with the video monitor was computed. An analysis of the data indicated that the group of participants oriented to the video monitor 69% of the time while the video text was played. In addition, the study yielded valuable information concerning
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A Short Memorandum on Law, Regulation, and Consumption Dr. Bronwen Morgan A. Standard Economic Approaches A highly simplified standard (neoclassical) economic account of the relationship between law, regulation and consumption would posit that, first, the arena for consumption is constituted at a background level by law. General legal rules of contract provide the framework within which consumption choices are made, while general legal rules of tort, or wrongful harm, provide a post-hoc means
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The management of sporting innovation at Decathlon. Between rationality and chaos (P262) Guillaume Richard*, Yann Abdourazakou* Abstract: The point under study is the first of such a nature. We investigated the management of innovation in the company called Decathlon. In recent years, vertical integration has rarely been so much developed as in the leading company of sporting goods’ distribution in France. Based on the group’s “sporting universe” concept, it now challenges some bigger firms’
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