(1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s Model o Core group o Frist/Second peripheral groups How each of these
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JUSTIFYING SHAREHOLDER WEALTH MAXIMISATION Alan D Morrison Programme Director‚ The Oxford Finance Programme for Senior Executives; Professor of Finance‚ Saïd Business School CORPORATE OBJECTIVES AND CORPORATE FINANCE The Role of the Corporation Corporate fi nance is the branch of economics that concerns itself with the ways in which corporations fi nance their activities. If we want to think clearly about this topic‚ we need a simple model of the corporation. Figure 1 is about the simplest
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a profit maximizing firm Neoclassical model of the firm states that organization will have the main objective of maximizing its profit within a given period of time. Maximum profit was achieved at the output at which marginal cost is equal marginal revenue. There are several factors which need to be considered when talking about the profit maximizing firm: 1. The assumption of the profit maximizing firm is that there is no segregation between managers and owners of the firm. Owners economically
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Values Towards the World ve What are the -ve effects on the environment f ll the ? of all th resources y your fi consumes? firm What Wh t are th -ve effects on the environment the ff t th i t of all the products your firm produces? What is your firm doing to repair the damage done t th environment over th p t X y to the i t the past years? ? Wh t i your firm doing to avoid damaging fi d i g t id d gi g What is y the environment in the future? What is your firm doing to promote environmental awareness
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business with high profitability means the business has the ability to earn profit. It is commonly say that a business needs funds to support its capital or running cost. For a high profitability business‚ funds can be easier to collect since the shareholders will expect that such business is profitable. Thus the business can state in a health financial position. In addition‚ profitability is different from profit. Profitability is a relative term but profit is an absolute term without any comparison
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Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily
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structure and firms strengths and weaknesses determine their choice of corporate strategy and organisational structure  Both corporate strategy and organisational structure influence the economic performance of the firm and the market in which it sells  One of the main goals for strategy implementation is to achieve synergy between functions and business units (Hunger and Wheelen) Organisational Structure  Organisational Structure arrangement whereby the firm motivates
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Why firms decide to go global Growth Many companies will prefer to invest their excess profits in order to expand‚ but sometimes they are limited because of the maturity of the markets in their area. Therefore‚ they seek the overseas new markets to provide such growth opportunities. So‚ these companies‚ in addition to investing their excess profits‚ also try to maximize efficiency by employing their underutilized resources in human and capital assets such as management‚ machinery‚ and technology
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THE FIRM Topic 5 Market Structures (I) Nature of the firm Theory of production Fixed v/s Variable factors Time periods Product concepts – TR‚ AR‚ and MR Product curves & Economic intuition Theory of costs – Short Run TC‚ FC and VC (AFC‚ AVC and SAC) SAC and SMC Cost curves & Economic intuition Relationship between product and cost curves Theory of costs – Long Run TC LAC and LMC Cost curves & Economic intuition Economies and Diseconomies of scale Theory of Supply Profit maximization Accountant
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to maximize the wealth of the shareholder.” “Financial management should include not only a concern for profit maximization but also for maximization of societal value.” The stakeholder theory defines the main objective of each and every organization. It is to be able to maximize the wealth of the firm by increasing its stock price. By defining the wealth of the firm‚ it is also defining the stockholder who own shares of the company. The parallelism of the stock price’s value and the stockholder
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