as the world’s leading off-priced retailer of apparel and home fashions. With its steadily growing brand portfolio, the company aims to offer consumers better value proposition than department stores. Keywords: global strategic management, corporate governance, off-price retail, Global Strategic Management: A Case Study of The TJX Companies, Inc. Company Overview Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX or “the company”) is the leading retailer of off-priced fashion
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is an American technology company based in Round Rock, Texas which develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, televisions, computer peripherals, and other technology-related products. In 1984, Michael Dell while a student at the University Of Texas founded the company as PC’s Limited with a capital of 1000.00. He operated from his off campus dorm room where he strived to sell IBM PC compatible computers. He
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emeraldinsight.com/1754-243X.htm Corporate governance theorising: limits, critics and alternatives Stephen Letza and James Kirkbride Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Corporate governance theorising 17 Xiuping Sun Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK, and Clive Smallman Commerce Division, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the mainstream theories of corporate governance in an attempt to suggest
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Corporate governance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many stakeholders involved and the goals for which the corporation is governed. The principal stakeholders are the shareholders, management, and the board of directors. Other stakeholders
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▪ Treatment of/value in children and the elderly ▪ The environment, waste, and consumption ▪ Business practices, loyalty, contractual agreements, and work ethic ▪ Treatment of/value in animals ▪ Privacy and community ▪ Religion, religious dogma and tradition Ethical pluralism is also known as “value” or “moral” pluralism. It is related but not identical to the concepts of moral relativism (there exist many moral theories and there is no objective standard by which they may be judged) and cultural
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Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski, Carole Lager, Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin Enron and World Finance Also by Observatoire de la Finance From Bretton Woods to Basel Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 21, Spring 2005 Ethics of Taxation and Banking Secrecy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 12, Autumn 2002 Will the Euro Shape Europe? Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, no. 9, Winter 2001–2 Dommen, E. (ed.) Debt
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Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility LeKesha Rideaux Professor Christina JG Williams, Esq. LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance 02/17/2013 In this research paper I will give the different stake holders Dr. DoRight has to deal with on a day-to-day basis as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital.” I will also give comparisons and contrasts concerning conflicts of interest that could arise among both the internal as well external stakeholders. I will attempt
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Standard (IFRS) respectively to show the reliability of Financial Statement. Besides, we are able to know the importance of corporate governance in the business world. A part from that, we are notice about the principle of separation of ownership and management in the company relating to the director’s fiduciary duty to the company. Plus, we need to recognize the code of ethics for Company Secretary. Last but not least, we should consider other aspects in this case to reflect the best recommendation
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Introduction Good corporate governance (GCG) in a corporate set up leads to maximize the value of the shareholders legally, ethically and on a sustainable basis, while ensuring equity and transparency to every stakeholder - the company's customers, employees, investors, vendors-partners, the government of the land and the community (Murthy, 2006). GCG is a must for ensuring the required values to different stakeholder groups. It enhances the performance of corporations, by creating an environment
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CHAPTER 1: THE IMPORTANCE OF BUSINESS ETHICS Ethics- Inquiry into the nature and grounds of morality where the term of morality is taken to mean moral judgments, standards and rules of conduct. The American Heritage Dictionary- Ethics- The study of the general nature of morals and of specific moral choices, moral philosophy, and the rules or standards governing the conducts of the members of a profession. Applying Ethics to business: 1.To survive, business must earn a profit 2. Business
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