solve world hunger‚ people in the present is encouraged to do so as well. This is a really great idea; unfortunately‚ the solution for them is no other than GMOs. One of the principal companies involved in genetically modified organisms is Monsanto. Monsanto is one of the largest agricultural companies in the world. At the beginning it was a company focused in chemical and plastics just until 1980 when it started to be involved in the use of biotechnology in agriculture. It is recognized as being
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Monsanto Harvest With Fear Company Background Monsanto positions itself as a relatively new agricultural company having formed in 2002‚ and focused on supporting local farmers around the world. They also promote themselves as a guardian of the environment with a mission “to produce more food while conserving more” (Monsanto.com). Today’s Monsanto conglomerate also promotes itself as the “New Merchants‚” a leading research company in the field of agriculture-crop production‚ as well as a
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Case Study #1: Monsanto Mendoza Huerta Alma Fabiola City University of Seattle BC 306 Amy Thiele January 20‚ 2011 Case Study #1: Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interests 1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture that can effectively respond to various stakeholders? I think Monsanto does follow an ethical culture because even when they have passed through many troubles‚ and they have succeed. Also they have faced their problems and have take responsibility of their activities;
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Monsanto: Q1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture than can effectively respond to various stakeholders? I believe Monsanto makes an effort to have an ethical culture and for the most part they succeed. The bribery issues in Indonesia‚ within their own company‚ in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s were reported to the Department of Justice by Monsanto. This level of corporate governance is something I think many large corporations would not do. The farmers‚ who are primary stakeholders because
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Shareholder and Stakeholder Over the last decade‚ with the rapid development of business management‚ the Shareholders who are the effective owners of the company invest money into the business and want as much profit as possible as a return for their investment. Shareholders will engage manager to help them to run the business and make various decisions in different aspects in order to maximize potential wealth. There seems to be no doubt that a manager has a legal responsibility to shareholders
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Every business has stakeholders involved. A stakeholder is anyone who has a claim in some way to a company’s products‚ operations‚ markets‚ industry‚ and outcomes (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ Ferrell 31). Some stakeholders are more involved than others. Members that are needed for the company to maintain are referred to as primary stakeholders‚ whereas others are called secondary stakeholders. Primary stakeholders can be identified as employees‚ customers‚ investors‚ and shareholders and can also be governments
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Stakeholders A stakeholder is a person‚ group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives and policies. There is two different types of stake holders‚ these are internal and external. Internal stakeholders are people who are on the inside of the business that already serve the organisation‚ these include staff‚ managers‚ board members etc. external stakeholders are from outside of the company but
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Dawid Smietanski Professor BBA 415 September 22‚ 2013 Monsanto Question 1 The entire case study is about Monsanto’s desire to balances the needs and concerns of multiple stakeholders. The case examines Monsanto’s history as it shifted from a variety of chemical company to one focused on biotechnology. Monsanto has met with criticism from sources as diverse as governments‚ farmers‚ activists‚ customers. By keeping in mind that there is two sides of the coin one that is the prosperity and
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STAKEHOLDER THEORY: A LIBERTARIAN DEFENSE R. Edward Freeman and Robert A. Phillips Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to suggest that at least one strain of what has come to be called "stakeholder theory" has roots that are deeply libertarian We begin by explicating both "stakeholder theory" and "libertarian arguments " We show how there are libertarian arguments for both instrumental and normative stakeholder theory‚ and we construct a version of capitalism‚ called "stakeholder capitalism
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www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 8‚ No. 10: August 2012 Managing Stakeholders: An Integrative Perspective on the Source of Competitive Advantage Minyu Wu’ ’ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia Correspondence: Minyu Wu‚ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ CDT 250‚ 98009 Miri‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia. Tel: 60-8-544-3844. E-mail: minyu.wu@curtin.edu.my Received: March 19‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ass.v8nl0pl60 Abstract Despite the enormous amount of academic
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