Preliminary Draft - Comments Welcome CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD?* RAY FISMAN GEOFFREY HEAL VINAY B. NAIR# Abstract We provide a framework for analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our model of CSR in this paper has two important ingredients – CSR is at least in part a profit motivated decision; and different CSR activities are aimed at different audiences. We examine the implications of our framework using a ‘visible’ CSR index that captures
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Exploring Corporate Strategy CLASSIC CASE STUDIES Nokia: The Consumer Electronics Business Martin Lindell and Leif Melin The case describes the entry of the Finnish company‚ Nokia‚ into the consumer electronics market – resulting in a significant reorientation of the company. It describes the internationalisation of the Nokia Group from a Finnish company‚ to a Nordic company‚ to a European company and finally to a global player in world markets. The case raises three main questions. Why and how
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Ninad J Panchakshari Mcom. FCA‚ Nashik What is Tax Planning? Tax planning is an essential part of your financial planning. Efficient tax planning enables you to reduce your tax liability to the minimum. This is done by legitimately taking advantage of all tax exemptions‚ deductions rebates and allowances while ensuring that your investments are in line with your long-term goals. However in a broader sense tax planning is not to save the tax for current financial year but also make an effective
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Organizational structure of Asia Commercial Bank and Sacombank At the Operation area in the Organizational chart of Sacombank‚ there are departments which are divided by occupational categories or functions such as HR & Training‚ Personnel banking‚ and Corporate banking... Each department that has appropriate sub-functions carries out particular task to develop productions‚ example: HR & Training has sub-functions are Human Resources Department‚ and Training Center. Therefore Sacombank has departmentation
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C04_ICSA_STUDY_TEXT_STRAT_OPS_MAN.QXD:ICSA chapter 18/6/09 10:49 Page 111 4 The organisation – structure and culture contents 1 2 3 4 What determines organisational form? Organisational structure What is organisational culture? 5 6 Creating and sustaining culture Organisational culture and national culture The importance of culture learning outcomes As organisations seek to compete in ever-changing environments‚ they need to adapt and develop to take advantage
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Corporate identity – the management of the process of change in the name/logo in the context of brands’ merger Joana César Machado Paulo de Lencastre Pedro Dionísio Universidade Católica Portuguesa E-mail: jcmachado@porto.ucp.pt E-mail: plencastre@porto.ucp.pt Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa E-mail: pedro.dionisio@imr.pt Abstract The creation of strong corporate identity‚ including identity signs‚ is crucial for companies to encourage positive attitudes in
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art and perspectives for future research”‚ Journal of Family Business Management‚ 1(2)‚ pp.130-153. 7. Hales‚ S. and Rabey‚ G. (2011) “The frontline manager: fronting up to organisational change”‚ Industrial and Commercial Trainning‚ 43(6)‚ pp.368-376. 8. Knights‚ D. and Willmott‚ H. (2007) Introducing organizational behaviour and management‚ South-Western Cengage Learning. 9. Kulmala‚ H.I. and Uusi-Rauva‚ E. (2005) “Network as a business environment: experiences from software industry”‚ Supply Chain
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African situation‚ South Africa is known as a developing post-colonised country. Corporate governance is “a particularly salient issue in emerging markets attempting to compete for investors and capital with established markets where investors are less concerned about the quality of corporate governance practices” (Andreasson‚ 2002: 2).This statement rules out the possibility of a “comply or else” approach to corporate governance‚ and as a result “comply or explain” approach is the most suitable approach
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components of their strategic and operating success. Venture strategy can be… • Internal venture strategy • External venture strategy INTERNAL VENTURE STRATEGY • A vehicle used to create new business • Managing new products/services‚ development projects as in company ventures Creating new business SPIN OUT INTERNAL VENTURE STRATEGY ALLIANCE Joint ventures‚ venture acquisitions‚ Partnering EXTERNAL VENTURE STRATEGY • Acquisition of product‚ market‚ • Investing in new technologies and emerging
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Utilising the video case study of Egg Finance’ (Slave Nation‚ Channel 4)‚ critically examine the extent to which corporate culture is used as an effective tool for the achievement of organizational goals. Corporate Culture is widely used in many organisations and has a variety of definitions. It has been defined by Koozes‚ Caldwell & Posner cited by Moorhead/Griffin‚ (1989:494) as: "a set of shared‚ enduring beliefs communicated through a variety of symbolic media‚ creating meaning in people’s
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