Sustainable Development Initiatives of Royal Dutch Shell. Student #: 100098805 September 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Part A: Discussion Case on “Damming the Yangtze River” 3 Conflicting Social Costs 3 Conflicting Economic Costs 5 Conflicting Environmental Costs 6 Benefits 12 Global and Regional Issues and Impacts 17 Biases‚ Perspectives or Experiences Influencing My Views on Various Costs and Benefits 17 Part B: Report on Ways Royal Dutch Shell is Transforming to More Sustainable Operations
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a globalized business environment‚ companies such as Shell operate in a number of international markets‚and consequently enounter various risks not normally attributed with domestic markets (Beck 1993). In developing countries such as Nigeria the regulatory frameworks may exist but are not adequatley enforced. Hence‚The intent of CSR activities performed by multinationals are not always well determined‚ And powerful multinationals such as Shell have emerged as the major players in this era of globalization
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Shell Oil in Nigeria 1. What are some of the factors explaining why corruption and bribery are so high in Nigeria? Nigeria is considered to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Many different forms of corruption are familiar to Nigeria including political corruption‚ bureaucratic corruption‚ electoral corruption‚ embezzlement‚ and bribery. Corruption has even been said to be a viable enterprise in Nigeria due to the involvement of citizens‚ government officials‚ and private
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Management 307 Shell-Nigeria case The Business Ethics of Shell in Nigeria The Shell-Nigeria case has produced great debates about business practices and what is deemed ethical behavior. When applying the views of some of the great moral philosophers‚ economists‚ and philosophical concepts in history to the Shell-Nigeria case‚ one is left with a variety of diverse viewpoints about whether or not Shell’s business practices were ethical. Philosopher and economist‚ Adam Smith‚ would likely have
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The ethics of a company can be measured by different theories. Some of these theories can be used to measure Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (Shell Nigeria). The first ethical measure discussed is utilitarian reasoning‚ also referred to as cost-benefit analysis‚ which compares the costs and benefits of a decision. Secondly for the human rights theory‚ were the rights of the stakeholders respected? Third‚ the ethical theory of justice is measured by whether the benefits and costs
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In 1907‚ Shell and Royal Dutch merged after realizing the benefit of working together. In the early 1920’s‚ an aviation attempt was made across the Atlantic‚ prompting the start of Shell’s Aviation Services. Shell had expanded as there was a mass production of cars in the early 20th century‚ but experienced a reduction in operations during the first World War. In 1929‚ Shell continued to expand their operations to include chemicals. However‚ as the Second World War occurred‚ Shell again lost
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Adam Oufkir 3/26/12 Nigeria: Shell Oil Crisis In the early 20th century Britain colonized Africa and created false borders through out the continent. The creation of such false countries as Nigeria caused the grouping of people that didn’t get along well. This action by Britain caused severs instabilities in the country of Nigeria. This may have made the country unstable at first but now the problem is caused by Shell. The problem in Nigeria is not caused currently on going not because of imperialism
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Eini Laaksonen Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute 14/2010 ISSN 1795 - 5076 Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Eini Laaksonen1 14/2010 Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute www.tse.fi/pei 1 Eini Laaksonen is Research Associate at the Pan-European
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Risk and Reward in World Markets Managing Risk in an Unstable World As emerging markets generate greater shares of global supply and demand‚ companies need better methods to weigh political risk againstfinancialreward. by Ian Bremmer C ountries in turmoil elbow one another off the front page at a dizzying pace: Lebanon follows Ukraine follows Sudan follows Argentina. Companies‚ meanwhile‚ fear unpredictable change‚ even as they seek profit from the opportunities change creates-a freshly
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POLITICAL RISK Abstract How companies could face political risk? We decided to investigate many study cases of political risk based on what we have learnt in class and trying to focus in distant regions such as Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia for not being redundant on the already well-known cases of Latin America. To achieve it‚ we used the data base of ProQuest and we found many articles about it. The references of this investigation are included in the bibliography of this work at the end
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