CSR Over the last two decades‚ the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted considerable attention academic circles as well as in practice. CSR has been the subject of much researched and one of most intensely debated issue among scholars and practitioners (Mcdonald and Thiele‚ 2007; Yeh and Li‚ 2009; Mandhachitar and Poolthong‚ 2009; Maignan and Ferrell‚ 2005; Dincer and Dincer‚ 2012; Barone‚ Mizaki and Taylor‚ 2000). The benefits of companies engaging in CSR activities
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Understanding the crisis involves understanding the past. At the beginning chapter of the book‚ Mason tells stories of the bankruptcy of Lehmans‚ and the collapse of AIG. AIG was making about 15 per cent of its profits from insuring financial speculation‚ and its shares were trading at a spectacular 37 times of its earnings by September 2000. To achieve this‚ AIG began to insure a large chunk of the high-risk speculation. They also had been faked to fool the auditors and had taken its customer’s
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VOL 18 NO -235 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka‚ Thursday June 30 2011 Moral values‚ ethics and philosophy M S Siddiqui The dream of a child starts with a stereo type suggestion from parents that the baby will be a doctor - engineer. The baby has no other option to dream of being doctor or engineer. Our education system was framed by the British rulers to create civil servants to serve their purpose. They had created dreams of civil service. As a legacy of the British and the Pakistani system we
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Nuclear Meltdown Throughout human history‚ there have been and continues to be scandals and cover-ups made by the government and city officials to save their own behinds. Where have all the honest people gone? No matter what the case maybe‚ money and a good reputation seem to prevail over the cost innocent lives. In 1959‚ Rocketdyne‚ a rocket-testing company in the Santa Susana Hills of Simi Valley had a meltdown. Although Rocketdyne representatives deny that the incident caused any type
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“Understanding Ethical and Moral Behavior” Michael Thomas MGT/216 October 17‚ 2010 Mr. Harvey McDonell Understanding Ethical and Moral Behavior The differences between ethical and moral issues are not too far off base in comparison to one another if one takes a thorough assessment of the two. Ethical issues deal primarily with a level of standards or certain behaviors that have been set forth or established by an individual in whom he or she displays within a work setting
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THE BANKING REGULATION ACT‚ 1949 (AS APPLICABLE TO COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES) Objectives of the Banking Regulation Act broadly are: 1. to safeguard the interest of depositors; 2. to develop banking institutions on sound lines; and 3. to attune the monetary and credit system to the larger interests and priorities of the nation. The Act was originally in force from 16 March 1949 as the Banking Companies Act‚ 1949. It was amended and renamed as Banking Regulation Act‚ 1949 and extended to the cooperative
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Meltdown at Jet Blue Meltdown at Jet Blue Management Issues that caused the Jet Blue problem Management made the first mistake by looking at the problem too simply‚ and not thinking about the end result fully. When I say this‚ I am talking about the planes and the weather‚ but it could also apply to the IT solutions that Jet Blue had implemented prior. The planes should have been left in the terminal until the weather cleared‚ instead of loaded with passengers and try to make the flight out
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Inside the Meltdown Summary The stock of a global investment company‚ Bear Stearns‚ began to drop drastically on March 10th‚ 2008. A share of Bear Stearns was as high as $171 and by the afternoon dropped to $57. Former CEO of the company‚ Ace Greenberg‚ tells CNBC that all of these rumors are “ridiculous.” As time goes on‚ Bear Stearns’ cash reserves were disappearing and people invested in the company were immediately withdrawing. Bear Stearns was basically racing to find a company to buy them
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Introduction Social‚ moral‚ and political philosophies are three branches that share elements‚ but are different in application. This paper considers what the fields have in common‚ how they are different‚ and how they apply to modern life. When thinkers contemplate such diverse ideas such as justice‚ love‚ friendship‚ democracy‚ and divorce‚ they are considering concepts that fit in one or more of the three fields of philosophy discussed in this paper. Contrasts and Commonality When philosophy addresses
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and our insurance guarantee‚ and I think we ’ve done that fairly successfully. We have seen a lot of stability. People are keeping their money in banks‚ which is good. ... I think we ’ll be judged by how history judges us‚ whether we continue to be effective in trying to stabilize the banking sector and maintaining people ’s confidence in the banking system. ... You say in speeches that the FDIC and yourself saw a storm brewing over the last two years. ... When I came to the agency‚ we were still
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