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At one point in time, there was self-insurance. Then came risk management. Now comes the era of enterprise risk management(ERM). Traditional risk management will always be necessary, but ERM will complement existing risk activities by extending the field to cover all core risks as well as...
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ethical procedures. This paper analyses how C&A as one of the largest Western apparel companies organises its sourcing ethics …, we review the opinions of external stakeholders about the sourcing ethics of C&A. Finally, we evaluate C&A’s sourcing … ethics from a theoretical perspective. …
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This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...
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Corporations discover that social responsibility pays off. However, sometimes doing what is ethical will prove costly to a company. The purpose of this article is to clarify this trade-off by developing an economic model that describes the choice between profits and principles. The model is used...
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global policy issues in recent years relates to its internal governance. This paper focuses specifically on the structure and … highly diverse tasks of the IMF require different governance structures in order to be implemented effectively. We believe …
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We consider a two period career concern model where corporate governance is a decisive factor for innovation efforts by … democratic governance structure and relatively low product market competition. Using a panel dataset from 1990s, compiled from …&D, product market competition, and Governance index, we show that there is a robust association between innovation and the …
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The article is about the specifics of political control as a form of social control. The author analyzes the practice of political control, identifies social control methods which applicable to the various objects. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of solving social problems arising...
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The article considers the prospects for the use of the index ratings in predicting socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, critically analyzes the existing methods of indicative planning and the ways of solving problems facing the practice of regional management tasks.
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This paper examines how Africa’s share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) mechanisms. The findings which broadly indicate that tight IPRs are correlated with knowledge contribution can be summarized in two main...
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A recent set of case studies on resilience of ecocultures forms the basis for our review of and comment on the resilience literature. We note the diversity of definitions of resilience and the confusion this creates in implementing resilience studies. We develop a synthesis view that establishes...
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