Business ethics are a pivotal aspect in strategic business finance, or finance in general. Poor ethical practices and immoral acts have been conducted across many years by many individuals and businesses in the business world in regards to finance. This paper will focus on two of the more well-known ethical issues that occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Enron Corporation and WorldCom. This paper will focus on the factors that led to the demise of the corporations, as well as the violations
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This paper is about the complexity of managing organizations. As theoretical groundwork the book Organising and Managing Work by Tony Watson will be used. The book by Tony Watson covers issues about organizational, managerial and strategic behavior. In particular, the author argues for a critical common sense and the use of philosophical pragmatism (Watson, 2006). He also questions the way work is organized and managed. Finally, the process-relation perspective, a critical perspective of how to think
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International Journal of Project Management Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 207±216, 1999 # 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd and IPMA. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0263-7863/99 $ - see front matter PII: S0263-7863(98)00032-5 An integrated framework for project portfolio selection NP Archer* and F Ghasemzadeh Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 The task of selecting project portfolios is an important and recurring activity
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Strategic Management Lashanda Bullock BUS:341 Strategic Management As of lately, there has been a tremendous growth in the level of competition in almost all industries. Companies are continually trying to outdo their rivals by producing new products and services in the market. However, the market is almost saturated by new products because most of them are very similar and others slightly differentiated. Therefore, to survive in this competition, different companies have decided to develop
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INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (IPAM) UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE RESEARCH PROPOSAL PROPOSED MASTERS-MPA PROPOSED TOPIC THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING AND IT’S ALIGNMENT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE ORGANIZATION A CASE STUDY: PARLIAMENT OF SIERRA LEONE (STRATEGIC PLAN 2009-2013) SUBMITTED TO: THE DEAN OF POSTGRADUATES STUDIES SUBMITTED BY: JOSEPH CONTEH INTRODUCTION Strategic information system planning (SISP) is consistently
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Marketing Management System Online (GMSMO) International Business Program University of Economics, Prague October 12 – 15, 2011 Instructor: Dr. Basil J. Janavaras E-Mail: basilj@janavaras.com Web Sites http://www.gmmso3.com , http://www.janavaras.com Introduction This course utilizes web based software named GMMSO (Global Marketing Management System Online, http://www.gmmso3.com ) as the basis of instruction along with targeted lectures on international business strategic planning
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Term Paper on: Sales force management of Banglalion Wimax MKT 364: Sales Force Management Prepared for: Rahma Akhter Faculty, School of Business Prepared by: Group: “Sprit” University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) Date of Submission: 6th April 2011 6th April 2011 Rahma Akhter Faculty School of Business University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) Dear Madam, We are the student
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the course material in the analysis of an actual strategic management situation. This assignment will be completed throughout the term and the final assignment will be a compilation and refinement of the sub-assignments. 2. Assignment Topic: Write an expanded strategic plan for an organisation This assignment requires you to apply the entire strategic-management process to a particular organisation. Most of the information in a strategic management case is established fact, but some information
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definition phase and not spontaneously; all the successful companies have learned how to handle the technical and marketplace uncertainties in their product definition processes. Paper describes the actions of companies used as best practices which can improve the definition phase of any company's product-development process. They have grouped the techniques into three categories and carefully lay out the steps that companies need to take as they work through each stage. They can help companies capture
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ABSTRACT Have you ever thought about all the planning that goes into coming up with a strategic plan for going global? Today we are in the are the beginning stages of a project for Able Corporation, which will eventually yield and go global in six months or more. In this paper I will be answering several questions that will lead to the completion of a business plan for Able Corporations strategic initiative to penetrate the global marketplace. INTRODUCTION Today we are looking at
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