Ethical Issues Associated with Multinational Corporations Navigating the boundaries between right and wrong can prove tricky for companies that operate in several nations and across cultures. Business ethics is the study and evaluation of decision-making by businesses according to moral concepts and judgments. Ethical questions range from practical‚ narrowly defined issues‚ such as a company ’s obligation to be honest with its customers‚ to broader social and philosophical questions‚ such as a
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International Financial Management‚ 2e (Bekaert / Hodrick) Chapter 1 Globalization and the Multinational Corporation 1.1 Multiple Choice Easy 1) Which of the following was created in an effort to promote free trade? A) World Trade Organization B) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act C) multilateral development banks D) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Answer: A 2) Which one of the following is an investment from which the payoff over time is derived from the performance
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Skull rings Over the past few years silver skull ring has engaged on its own tradition and iconic position. Skull imagery is the affection of representational meaning to the human skull. The most communal emblematic use of the skull is as a symbol of demise and mortality‚ but such an interpretation varies with moving social perspectives. The human brain has an unambiguous region for knowing façades; it cannot detach the spitting image of the human skull from the acquainted human face. As of this
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MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS’ ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Aliyev E. V.‚ 3rd year‚ Institute of Economics‚ Management and Environmental Studies‚ Siberian Federal University Supervisor- Berezova K. G. One of the most actual tendencies associated with globalization is a growing influence of multinational corporations (MNCs) on local economical environments. During recent decades‚ Russia turned from an isolated economic unit to a host country for foreign capital flows. Multinational
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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION Globalization is not a new phenomena. It was primarily formed long time ago‚ when Greeks‚ Romans conquered other countries and spread their power to them. However‚ the nature of globalization has been changed over time and reached to the stage of modern globalization. In the article “Spiritual perspective on globalization”‚ Ira Rifkin (2003) says that the modern globalization could be identified from a meeting on 1944 in Bretton Woods where forty five nations
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Chapter 14 Multinational Capital Budgeting Lecture Outline Subsidiary versus Parent Perspective Tax Differentials Restricted Remittances Excessive Remittances Exchange Rate Movements Input for Multinational Capital Budgeting Multinational Capital Budgeting Example Background Analysis Factors to Consider in Multinational Capital Budgeting Exchange Rate Fluctuations Inflation Financing Arrangement Blocked Funds Uncertain Salvage Value Impact of Project
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BUS378: Knowledge and Organisational Learning Risks and benefits of social media on a Multinational Corporation Student Name: Tan Pei Si Jalyn Student Number: 31726715 Date Due: 9th July 2012 Lecturer Name: Mr Gerard Chan Word Count: 2366 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 SOCIAL MEDIA 3 USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS 4 CREATE KNOWLEDGE SHARING 4 BUILD SOCIAL CAPITAL 5 SUPPORT INNOVATIONS 5 AID PROBLEM SOLVING 5 APPLYING THE THEORY 6 RECOMMENDATIONS 7 RISK
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Amaia Soto NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY The advantages of technology are undeniable‚ electronic devices make our life much easier as we can save time and money when using them: cars‚ microwaves‚ mobile phones… In contrast‚ there are a lot of disadvantages that we don’t take into account. The recession is not the only cause of unemployment: technology has enabled multinational companies to replace their workers with machines. This business process has created job redundancies and downsizing. In
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(2003): MNC knowledge transfer‚ subsidiary absorptive capacity‚ and HRM (article 2) 5 Mudambi (2002): Knowledge management in multinational firms (article 3) 6 Foss & Pedersen (2002): Transferring knowledge in MNC’s: The role of sources of subsidiary knowledge and organizational context (article 4) 7 Gupta & Govindarajan (2000): Knowledge flows within multinational corporations (article 5) 7 Knowledge sharing within MNCs’ 8 Articles 2 & 3 – analysis and comparison 8 Article 5 – analysis & comparison
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Configurations of Strategy and Structure in Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations Author(s): Julian M. Birkinshaw and Allen J. Morrison Source: Journal of International Business Studies‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 4 (4th Qtr.‚ 1995)‚ pp. 729-753 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/155297 . Accessed: 06/04/2013 06:34 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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