Nick Backus, Western Oregon University Abstract In this paper we demonstrate how to focus an empirical application in reaching an ethical decision by working with the Potter Box, a model created by Ralph Potter as an analytical tool assessing the ethics of corporate decision-making, The facts emerging in news accounts regarding lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company Merck and its painkiller Vioxx are analyzed for ethical consideration. Utilizing the Potter Box model, the case against Merck can
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Governance and management Quality can be enhanced by better management practices, transparency in the use of resources, and accountability mechanisms to communities and other stakeholders. Mechanisms for promoting ownership and accountability through participatory planning deserve increased attention. Issues of governance go beyond ensuring better management of the public sector. They include a concern for increasing ownership by different stakeholders at different levels. One strand of the
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Chapter 01 Globalization Answer Key True / False Questions 1. As a result of globalization, we have been moving toward a world in which national economies are (p. 7) relatively self-contained entities. FALSE Over the past three decades a fundamental shift has been occurring in the world economy. We have been moving away from a world in which national economies were relatively self-contained entities. AACSB: Analytic Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective:
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IIUM Journal of Economics and Management 11, no.1 (2003): © 2003 by The International Islamic University Malaysia ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: CONTRIBUTION OF THE ISLAMIC PRINCIPLE OF MAêLAîAH Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (e-mail: abdulrahim@iiu.edu.my) ABSTRACT There is a growing concern over the apparently
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Introduction Business ethics are not as complicated or abstract as one might think. A simple way to evaluate whether or not a practice is ethical is to determine the ultimate effect of that practice. For example, if the manager of a store paid his cleaning employee less than the going rate to clean his store, knowing exactly what the going rate is, several things could happen to damage the business. The employee could suffer serious financial implications or the employee could leave and find another
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Dear MBL Student This letter serves to introduce you to the academics in the Strategy, Marketing, Governance, Economics and International Business Area. We also want to share with you our research focus areas to assist you to select a topic for your MBL research report in which we could offer you quality supervision. Should you select to do your research in our area you will work with seasoned academics who has a strong track record of successfully supervising both Master’s and Doctoral candidates
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Introduction Throughout the years, Asia has been flooded all sorts of ideologies, which has manifested within every Asian souls thus influencing their everyday behaviour in life. The Western people have been studying the ideologies of Asia, which they refer to as “oriental ideology”. Oriental is connotation of or the characteristic of the bio-geographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines, Borneo and Java (http://lookwayup.com). It is the same as “Asian”
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Edilberto G. Enriquez Jr Busineess Ethics: Final Paper THE PEPSI COMPANY All corporations operate with a license from society, and it’s critically important that we take that responsibility very, very seriously. We have to make sure that what corporations do don’t add costs to society. - Indra Nooyi, CEO PepsiCo The first job of management is, therefore, to identify and to anticipate impacts – coldly and realistically. The question is, Is what we do right, in the
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SHC 3083 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Section 2 Case study on Governance Failure at Satyam NAME | I.C NUMBER | MATRIC. NUMBER | BONG LUI LUI | 910710-15-5078 | AH100063 | EILEEN WONG PAK YEE | 911107-13-6184 | AH100066 | LAI JIA SIN | 901026-05-5500 | AH100072 | LIM SIN RUI | 910412-02-5152 | AH100074 | LINDA CHAN CHIN HUA | 910522-13-5360 | AH100075 | Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Summarization 1 2 Key Player 3 2.1 B. Ramalinga Raju and B.
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Ethics problems in cosmetics industry St. Thomas University MAN 510 Management Ethics Professor Raúl Fernández-Calienes 3/05/2014 Rong Li Abstract A cosmetics industry is called “beauty economy’, which includes the make-up, skincare and hair production and so on. Due to the beauty of nature, there is a huge demand for the cosmetics in the economic market. The corporations of cosmetics are the main supplies of the beauty products. As the blooming development
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