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Ziolkowski, Richard, and n/a. "A re-examination of corporate governance: concepts, models, theories and future directions." University of Canberra. Law, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060411.150123.
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This thesis represents a scholarly journey towards an understanding of
corporate governance. Unlike the vast majority of writings on governance, this
work attempts to take a step back, and to consider why and how we should
study corporate governance. These critical questions have been largely
ignored during the frenzy of governance research in the past few decades.
The thesis argues that corporate governance theory and practice reflects a
Tower of Academic Babel¹ reality as writers from diverse backgrounds use
different approaches, invent terminology and proclaim a new 'theory'. The
thesis analyses the extent of this conceptual confusion about corporate
governance and why this arises. It also considers some possible reasons for
the increasing disillusionment with the legal, ethical, cultural, institutional,
regulatory and other contexts of corporate governance.
The corporate governance literature indicates that much uncertainty has
arisen over the nature of corporate governance. Both, denotative and
connotative meanings of corporate governance have been ambiguous, often
because of poorly defined concepts. This ambiguity is compounded by
confusion over methodological concepts such as "paradigm", "system",
"model" and "theory", the key constructs employed by many legal, and other,
writers. Moreover, much of the literature on corporate governance is founded
on ethnocentric concepts that are often "chauvinistic in the extreme".² This
confusion has been intensified by the added complexity of unique
phenomenology, demonstrated by numerous writers with "scholarship and
advocacy that is culturally and economically insensitive"³
This thesis argues that the search for corporate efficiency and effectiveness
is often misguided, both because of biased performance criteria and a lack of
a clear conceptual domain. Consequently, the corporate governance
discourse fails meaningfully to address the enigma of what is the range of
corporate governance influence on corporate activities? The overarching
argument made in this thesis is that our understanding of corporate
governance requires a clarification of methodological approach and a
comparative perspective.
By recasting corporate governance research within consistent models,
theories and applications this thesis lays the foundation for future research by
which we may investigate the causal relationships that determine corporate
efficiency, effectiveness and the optimum structures for good corporate
governance.
practitioners from most cultures.
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Krol, Caspar, and Wiebren Prins. "Cooperation between established corporate companies and start-ups : Gaining innovation power from start-ups’ digital-driven logistics innovation." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CeLS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48611.
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Innovation power is essential for long-term survival in the competitive environment of a corporate and can often only be increased through cooperation. It is therefore crucial for management and researchers to know the most important factors influencing the increase of this power and the effects of the form of cooperation on it. Especially in the field of digitization, many corporates still lack experience, especially in how to cooperate with start-up companies to achieve effective digital innovations. This thesis identifies digital-driven logistics innovation used by corporates and their most important impact factors as well as forms of cooperation between the start-ups who invented those and corporates who are using them for improvement of their own innovation power. Therefore, qualitative interviews were conducted at management level, with large established manufacturing companies and logistics service providers (LSPs) from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Switzerland. The empirical findings show that the influencing variables application area and purpose, logistics activity, size, industry, digital experience, and cooperation experience are the most important factors. They also reveal that within the context of digital-driven logistics innovation, the cooperation between start-ups and the applied form of cooperation could influence the innovation output. The type of innovation is influencing the innovation power and slightly influences the type of cooperation. The cooperation form influences the innovation output as well. However, different results may be obtained for individual cases and companies, especially in the comparison between manufacturing companies and LSPs. Managers of established corporate companies can use these results to identify the best possible form of cooperation with start-ups for future decisions on cooperation to achieve digital-driven logistics innovation.
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Cronqvist, Stephanie, and Adam Svensson. "Styrelseledamöters inflytande över bolagsprestationer : Genom utveckling av ett inflytandeindex." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105621.
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Bakgrund: Tidigare forskning har grundat sina studier i att ett medlemskap i styrelsen är lika med att individer har denna påverkan över bolagets presterade resultat. Vidare återstår dilemmat om det går att fastställa att ett medlemskap i styrelsen, oavsett roll och person, medför att ledamöterna har inflytande. Syfte: Studien syftar till att via utvecklingen av ett inflytandeindex förklara styrelseledamöters och styrelsegrupperingars inflytande över bolagsprestationer. Metod: Den metod som har genomförts är en tvärsnittsstudie med en deduktiv ansats. Studiens hypoteser har formulerats med grund i resursberoendeteorin, upper echelon-teorin, teorin om tokens samt tidigare forskning. Hypoteserna syftar till att testa studiens inflytandeindex. Slutsats: Studien finner att det konstruerade indexet kan fånga individers och gruppers inflytande i en styrelse på ett mer teoretiskt grundat sätt gentemot de traditionella måtten andel och kritisk massa. Det framkom genom indexet att styrelseledamöternas inflytande inte har någon betydelse för bolagsprestationer.Background: Previous studies have conducted its research on the premise that a membership on the board means that you have a certain impact on the results of the company. Further on, it remains a dilemma whether it’s possible to determine if a member of the board has this impact regardless of which person it is and which role they have on the board. Purpose: The study aims to explain the influence of board members and board groups on company performance through the development of an index of influence. Method: The method used is a cross-sectional study with a deductive approach. The hypothesis of the study has been formulated based on resource dependence theory, the upper echelon-theory, the theory of tokens and previous studies. The purpose of the hypothesis is to test the index of influence of the study. Conclusion: The study finds that the constructed index can capture the influence of individuals and groups on a board in a more theoretically grounded way compared to the traditional measures of proportion and critical mass. It emerged from the index that the board members' influence has no significance for company performance.
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Pacces, Alessio Maria. "Featuring control power : corporate law and economics revisited /." Rotterdam : Erasmus Universiteit, 2008. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00217932.pdf.
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Chen, Yinghong. "Essays on voting power, corporate governance and capital structure." Göteborg : Dept. of Economics [Nationalekonomiska institutionen], Univ, 2004. http://www.handels.gu.se/epc/archive/00003821/01/ChendissNE.pdf.
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Palmer, Maxwell Benjamin. "Time and Political Power." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11342.
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Limited time is an important constraint and resource that is fundamental to governing. This dissertation studies the connection between limited time and political power in three different contexts.Government
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Ballard, Billy L. (Billy Lanoy). "Corporate Tax Rates and the Purchasing Power Parity Doctrine." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500570/.
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This thesis analyzes the effect of corporate tax rates on the purchasing-power-parity (PPP) doctrine. The data used to test this hypothesis are drawn from the U. S., the U. K., the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, and Japan. The first chapter introduces the reader to the concepts of the PPP doctrine and states the hypothesis. Chapter 2 reviews the literature on the PPP doctrine. Chapter 3 specifies a model of the PPP doctrine including tax rates. Chapter 4 reports and interprets the findings. The study is summarized and conclusions are drawn in chapter 5. In this study it is shown that tax rates are significant only in the case of the U. S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate.
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Bajuri, Norkhairul Hafiz. "Corporate Malaysia : essays on corporate governance, voting power, joint venture companies and ethnic Bumiputra corporate achievement." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/corporate-malaysia-essays-on-corporate-governance-voting-power-joint-venture-companies-and-ethnic-bumiputra-corporate-achievement(89bc65f1-5a5a-4126-815e-c7f4fd4a5f67).html.
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This dissertation is on corporate Malaysia - a subject that spans both corporate governance and political economy. It deals with such issues as corporate ownership and control in the context of ethnicity. The first essay draws on the unique Malaysian experience to describe the possible unsuitability of the UK-US model of corporate governance for emerging economies. Examples from previous studies are used to highlight the unique relationship between ethnic Bumiputra economic interest and corporate governance. This essay also provides new statistics on the level of corporate control and highlights three areas of corporate governance as warranting further studies - technology, shareholders participation and application of voting power concept. The second essay introduces the basic concept of voting power as an alternative way of analysing corporate Malaysia. Data emanating from the Centre of Public Policy Studies 2006 (CPPS 2006) is analysed to illustrate this concept. A possible mismatch between the level of corporate ownership and the level of corporate control is illustrated. The third essay is on ethnic Chinese-Bumiputra joint venture companies as an equitable form of corporate ownership, as proposed by the CPPS (2006). Data from CPPS (2006) is analysed and a new framework of analysis is offered. Two stories emerge from our analysis. The study by the CPPS may have over-estimated the emergence of inter-ethnic joint ventures in Malaysia. The CPPS report also underestimates the difficulty of forming coalitions when shareholding within ethnic groups is dispersed. It remains to be seen if equitable control is also in the process of being achieved, since only a small percentage of companies listed in the stock exchange can be considered as inter-ethnic in the actual sense. Enriched information to highlight not just inter-ethnic but intra-ethnic distribution of equity is needed to shed light on potential coalitions across the ethnic divide. The fourth essay calls for greater application of the voting power concept in corporate governance studies. Special attention is placed on the Straffin index in view of its recent attention. This chapter concludes the Penrose-Banzhaf index as applicable with greater confidence despite general issues confronting this concept. The last essay is on ethnic Bumiputra' s corporate achievement. The first part focuses on corporate equity ownership by offering lawmakers as the basis for allocating shares in government-linked companies, hence an alternative equity ownership estimate. In the second part, the focus shifts to corporate control. Two observations are made: the intra-ethnic mismatch between equity and control and the inter-ethnic corporate control gap. In the latter observation, this gap reduces upon further analysis. Coalition with government entity increases ethnic Bumiputra's corporate control while small shareholders inactivity has an adverse influences on that of the ethnic Chinese group. The combined influences are corporate control increases for ethnic Bumiputra group but for ethnic Chinese group, reduction hence narrowing the gap. The influence of government coalition is expected. The influence of small shareholders inactivity to corporate control is however less expected.
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Fawcett, Jacob. "Corporate ideology and legal myth." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3420.
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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 105. Thesis director: Denise Albanese. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-104). Also issued in print.
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Nel, Jan-Derick. "The business of power and the power of business : (determining meta-ethics)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21191.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A changing world brings about many different challenges. The same applies to business operating in society. These changes and challenges relate to business ethics in general and how it impacts on the decisions that business makes every day. The ethical challenges that business has to face have a profound effect on meta-ethical concerns. Awareness of this situation can help to direct business and the rest of society to reach positive outcomes. When looking at current cases it is evident how corporate culture and leadership play a very important role in this matter. The cases shows how the power of business is exerted in practice and it can serve a positive purpose in determining meta-ethics.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Veranderende wêreld gee tot baie verskillende uitdagings aanleiding. Dieselfde geld vir besigheid wat in die samelewing funksioneer. Dit hou verband met sake-etiek in die algemeen en watter invloed dit uitoefen op die besluite wat besigheid elke dag moet neem. Die etiese uitdagings wat besigheid elke dag in die gesig staar, het 'n diepgaande uitwerking op meta-etiese kwessies. 'n Bewustheid van hierdie situasie kan help om leiding aan besigheid en die res van die samelewing te bied ten einde positiewe resultate te bereik . As die huidige gevalle in ag geneem word, is dit klaarblyklik dat korporatiewe kultuur en leierskap ’n baie belangrike rol in hierdie verband speel. Dit toon hoe die kragtige invloed van besigheid in die praktyk gebruik word en hoe dit 'n positiewe rol kan speel om meta-etiek te bepaal.
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Tsemo, Victor. "An investigation of CSR as a source of corporate political power." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621870.
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In political philosophy, power and responsibility are known to be two sides of the same coin. Yet surprisingly, corporate political power has not been strongly featured in the long-standing debate surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), despite the parallel debate on the influence of business in policy-making. The political dimension of CSR and its intrinsic relationship with Corporate Political Power (CPP) has been under-researched. This thesis adds to the CSR debate by investigating the processes and mechanisms by which CSR activities contribute to the power of the firm in the political arena, in the context of the British construction industry. Drawing on the literature on power, political activity and extended corporate citizenship, a conceptual model of the relationship between CSR and CPP was developed. The model was underpinned by insights from the Institutional Theory, the Resource Dependence Theory, and the Resource-Based View of the firm. Using a hybrid constructivist-realism epistemology and a processbased analysis, three exploratory case studies were carried out in construction companies operating in the UK. Data were collected through archival research and semi-structured interviews, and analysed by means of within and cross-case analyses. The results revealed that the political environment of the firm was analogous to a marketplace where companies traded political goods with policy-makers. CSR activities produced four political goods, namely public image, technical expertise, social capital and indebtedness, which were identified as the mechanisms by which CSR contributed to CPP. The impacts of CSR activities on CPP were three-fold: CSR strengthened the privileged structural position of companies; helped them gain easier access to policy-makers; and this privileged access gave companies more opportunities to influence regulatory outcomes. The key theoretical contribution of the thesis is a processual model that illustrates how CSR contributes to CPP. There are also implications for practice. CSR activities are velvet curtains that hide the operationalisation of political power. The social and political implications call for the attention of government officials who favour a neoliberal doctrine for the promotion of CSR to business.
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Aasprong, Marius Lervåg. "Uncovering Corporate Social Responsibility : Deparadoxation of power in the CSR-discourse." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17542.
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In this study I analyze how 70 academic articles concerning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) deals with questions of power. Based on Michel Foucault’s discursive theory and Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, I present a conceptualization of CSR as a discursive system. I claim that paradoxes of power are central in the development of CSR, and that second order observation is vital for the identification of such paradoxes. My analysis shows that articles published in journals related to management theory are much less aware of problems relating to power, as well as being less critical towards such issues. Nonmanagement- articles are found to identify more paradoxes, but they have lesser impact on the CSR-discourse. Power created by social order as well as power created by system bias, are found to be core issues relating to the division of power between corporations and society at large. Also frequently found to be a concern, is power created by systems of thought, indicating both a critique towards the cultural and normative influence of large corporations, as well as a strong focus on developing knowledge within the CSR-discourse. If CSR is to function as a correction of the development of corporations and society, a critical focus on all aspects of power-creation in the CSR-discourse is an important counterweight to the extensively managerial focus.
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Barsdorf-Liebchen, Nicolette. "Strategies of visualisation : state-corporate-military power and post-photographic interventions." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/116093/.
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This thesis contributes to current scholarly debates concerning the witnessing and visualisation of twenty-first century systemic and "socially abstract" state-corporate-military power and its in/visible forms of violence. The nexus of neoliberal democratic hegemony, global corporatization, digital technologies of communication, and modern warfare have produced radically evolving contexts of war photography. This includes the engendering of artdocumentary practices which mark a significant departure from socially "realistic" representations to more abstract and conceptual visualisations. In this context, "postphotographic" imagery is not adequately served by recent ethico-political debates regarding the image-making/viewing of direct and/or symbolic violence, which tend to neglect that which is not seen in contemporary news frames (of what is being referred to here as traditional media), namely, the in/visible systems, structures and processes of state-corporate-military power. Accordingly, this thesis argues visual culture scholarship requires recalibrated vocabularies as well as revised conceptual and methodological frameworks for the critical exploration of the subject of systemic, socially abstract power/violence. This thesis strives to advance its contribution to theory-building by way of crafting an alternative approach to critically understanding art-documentary photography and its viewing/reception within a state-corporatist and military-mediatized dispensation. It takes a cocreative and forensic approach to the selected imagery of the UK/US-based photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Simon Norfolk, Trevor Paglen, Edmund Clark and ~ 2 ~ Lisa Barnard, critically deploying the trans/interdisciplinary conceptual constellation of, inter alia, "Plexus", "war", complicity, “Vergangenheitsbewältigung”, "Gegenwärtige Bewältigung", corporate personhood, the open/public secret, the State-Corporate Exception, the "cadastral" and the "proxy measure". The concept of a "dispositif" (Rancière) is engaged in the analysis of the imagery, taking into critical account the heterogeneous elements beyond their visible content and framing. By its close, this thesis demonstrates why its refashioning of these concepts to serve as methodological and theoretical tools recasts pertinent aspects of current debates, affording critical and co-creative "ways of seeing" power, its violence, and its visualisation.
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Taljaard, Darren. "Investigating the parallels between disciplinary/bio-power and cyber-corporate empire." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021023.
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Strong parallels exist between the formation of subjectivity through the disciplinary/bio-power technologies of the 18th/19th centuries – which Michel Foucault identified in his books Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, and The History of Sexuality Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge – and the 20th/21st century formation of subjectivity effected through Apple. Inc and Google. Inc operating systems and products. These systems and products similarly serve to canalize and ‗discipline‘ the pursuit and exchange of information, in a way that is constitutive of a new cyber-variant of disciplinary/bio-power subjectivity.
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Chernykh, Lyudmila Szewczyk Samuel Garner Jacqueline L. "Ultimate ownership and corporate performance in Russia /." [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Drexel University, 2005. http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/548.
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Lorrimar, Jane. "Organisational culture in TAFE colleges : power, gender and identity politics /." Lorrimar, Jane (2006) Organisational culture in TAFE colleges: power, gender and identity politics. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/164/.
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This study explores the human face of workplace change in two Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges in Western Australia. It analyses the impact of neoliberalism on organisational culture by examining the way vocational education and training (VET) reforms influenced the restructuring and orientation of these colleges, and changed their power dynamics and work practices. It presents the accounts of 100 women and men who were interviewed between 2000-2002 about their working lives. Their stories of passion and angst represent a 'vertical slice' of life in TAFE and include responses from administrative staff, lecturers, academic managers, corporate services managers and executives.
This study explores perceptions of power and the mechanisms of control that were exerted upon and within the colleges with a focus on the factors that impact on career satisfaction. In addition, it examines perceptions of fairness in relation to employment, remuneration and promotion issues. Specifically, it reveals a variety of points of view on the attributes of success and outlines the strategies individuals use to get ahead. Furthermore, it seeks to understand the way values and norms guide and justify conduct and how they influence organisational culture. It evaluates whether a climate of sacrifice operates in the colleges and whether individuals will sacrifice personal or professional values to get ahead.
Although much has been written on the impact of neoliberalism on the changing nature of work and organisational culture, there has been little investigation of the TAFE 'experience' at the individual, group and institutional level. It is also less common to find analyses of workplace restructuring that conceptualises the changes from a feminist and sociocultural perspective. By investigating the colleges as sites of gender and identity politics, this study explores the way individuals and groups do gender and describes how gender asymmetry is reproduced through social, cultural and institutional practices. It highlights how individuals construct their professional and worker identity and perceive themselves in relations to others in the social and organisational hierarchy of the colleges.
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Kortmann, Constantijn Nicolaas Johannes. "Onrechtmatige overheidsbesluiten /." Deventer : Kluwer, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/524850941.pdf.
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Chan, Wai Yin. "Soft power and paradiplomacy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region : a critical appraisal." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2019. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/691.
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This study evaluates Hong Kong's soft power through investigating the relations between the city's paradiplomatic ambits and performance and critically reflects on how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to further develop its presence in international stage and its identity as an active non-sovereign international actor. This study also enriches the literature of paradiplomacy and soft power of non-sovereign actors since the soft power analysis is still limited to state-centric research. This research also explores new angles to deal with Hong Kong-China relations by highlighting how the paradiplomacy and the soft power of Hong Kong can create space and flexibility for the city's international engagement. A theoretical framework which incorporates new institutionalism and normative theory to explain the interplay of paradiplomacy and soft power is proposed and tested. This study adopts multi-pronged method to investigate Hong Kong's soft power and its leaders' capabilities in upholding the city's international profile under "One Country, Two Systems". Through studying the international indexes, surveys of public opinion, official documents like Hong Kong Policy Addresses and conducting in-depth interviews, this study delineates and evaluates the soft power capacities within paradiplomatic ambits of the city. The key findings of the research indicate the HKSAR government has had a very restrictive understanding of the soft power for the city. In particular, the study proves that both institutions and values of Hong Kong are crucial for boosting the city's soft power. In contrast to the conventional system, the institutions of the HKSAR have limited the fostering of values of Hong Kong, but also the development of the city's soft power. This study shows that the tensions between the government and civil society have weakened some of the potential soft power resources. Moreover, the prevailing policy focus on strengthening the city's financial and economic status with respect to China's rise to power has not done justice to other stakeholders such as the film industry and the civil society who could have made considerable impacts on enriching and enhancing Hong Kong's global attractiveness. The paradiplomatic power of the HKSAR government has not been persistently pursued in the policy implementations. As the HKSAR government claimed it is committed to upholding the city's international profile and to promote its soft power globally, this study intends to make an original contribution to our understanding of the relations of the city's soft power, paradiplomacy and policy implementations.
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Gomes, R. C. "Does stakeholder orientation matter? : empirical evidence about power and influence in local government decision-making." Thesis, Aston University, 2003. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10761/.
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Despite being in the business agenda for almost thirty years, stakeholder management is still an under explored field in the public management context. The investigation presented in this doctoral thesis aims to ensure that stakeholder management is a useful technique able to raise issues about power and interests to public organisation’s strategic management processes. Stakeholder theory is tested in an exploratory study carried out with English Local Authorities whose focus is place on decision-making. The findings derive from two distinct and complementary studies: a cross-sectional survey undertaken with chief executives based on the quantitative approach and a qualitative investigation based on cross-sectional case studies and in-depth interviews of validation. While the first study aimed to produce a reliable and comprehensive list of stakeholders able to raise issues in decision-making, the second study aimed to depict the arena in which decision-making comes about. The findings indicate that local government decision-making is a multistakeholder process in which influences are exerted according to stakeholders’ power and interest. The findings also indicate that local government managers should take into account these tissues to avoid losing resources and legitimacy from its environmental supporters. Another issue raised by the investigation is related to the ethics upon which these types of relationships are based. According to the evidence gathered throughout the investigation, the formal model of accountability does not cover the whole set of stakeholders engaged in the process.
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Staskiewicz, Jessica A. "The constraining influence of norms on the use and misuse of power /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19735.pdf.
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Fedorochko, Nicholas R. "Money and Power: Industry Concentration as a Determinant of Corporate Lobbying Activity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2145.
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Amid increasing trends of market concentration and corporate political activity in the United States, this thesis takes a quantitative approach to evaluating Luigi Zingales’ political theory of the firm. Using data from the Economic Census and from the Center for Responsive Politics, I find that concentration as measured by four and eight largest firms’ share of establishments exhibits a significant positive relationship to corporate lobbying at the intensive margin. On the other hand, concentration as measured by four and eight largest firms’ share of employment exhibits a significant negative relationship on politically active firms’ decision to lobby at the extensive margin. Through drawing upon existing quantitative literature on this subject, I conclude that Zingales’ theory remains sound and its implications on the political economy of the United States are bleak. Further research should look into politically feasible policy solutions to this troubling relationship.
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Hathaway, Terry. "Corporate power and US oil dependence policy evolution under George W. Bush." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5471/.
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US oil dependence poses grave health, environmental and economic risks to the United States and its citizens. Yet, at the same time, several major corporations financially benefit from the oil dependent status quo. Through an investigation of how auto-manufacturers have been involved in the formulation, implementation and outcomes of both Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and Hydrogen Fuel Cell research policy (the FreedomCAR partnership) under the administrations of George W. Bush this thesis argues that the representation of the interests of (primarily) the Big Three US automobile corporations resulted in the protection of the oil dependent status quo from major political change. In this regard, this thesis investigates two interlinked questions: “why, over the past forty years, has the US not adopted a coherent energy policy to deal with its oil dependence?” and “how are corporations powerful in the US?” Focusing mainly on the latter question to explain the former, the thesis has four main original contributions. First, it provides an analytical framework for understanding the power of a corporation working as a political actor which reconciles many diverse mechanisms of influence and that allows an understanding of how these mechanisms can reinforce and complement one another. Second, in applying the framework, it provides two original policy case studies, which are based upon data gathered during fieldwork in Washington D.C. and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Third, the thesis demonstrates the validity of a holistic focus upon policy evolution, rather than policy making, for understanding questions of power and influence; it demonstrates the need to return to broader analysis of “who governs?” – or Held and McGrew’s (2003, p.8) “Who rules, in whose interests, by what mechanisms and for what purposes?” – than is currently carried out in US interest group literature. Fourth, this thesis shows how corporate power in domestic politics is connected to the international consequences of US oil dependence and the world problems that such dependence exacerbates.
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Cotsakos, Christos Michael. "Power in the balance : corporate governance in newly public United States companies." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8301.
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Nilson, Andre. "Capital and Power in Europe: The politics of corporate finance and corporate governance in the European Union." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491082.
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Stanglin, Gerald Minor. "Perceptions and Assessments of Power in Legislative Politics for Texas Public Community College Administrative Leadership." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332283/.
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The problem with which this study was concerned is the
political influence of community/junior college chief executive
officers (CEOs) and campus presidents on the state legislature, both directly and indirectly, in the funding of community colleges in Texas. Perceptions of effectiveness were recorded by survey from campus presidents and CEOs as well as from legislators and key legislators. In addition, interviews were conducted with several key legislators and the chief administrators of the two statewide community college organizations.
The purpose of the study was to analyze the policy-making process in Texas of which community/junior colleges are a part. The influential relationships and interactions of the sixty-five CEOs and campus presidents of the public community college districts and campuses in Texas were analyzed after a survey instrument was administered. Perceptions of rank—and—file legislators were gathered through use of another survey instrument and perceptions of key legislators were gathered in the same manner but with the addition of a personal interview. Certain questions were asked of them concerning interactions and communication with leaders of community colleges. With the legislators and the presidents certain demographic data was collected and analyzed as a part of the study.
Among the findings, campus presidents and CEOs do not have sufficient levels of acquaintance, interaction and communication to heavily influence local people whom they consider powerful in state funding of community colleges. Furthermore, legislators do not receive enough communication from powerful local group members to positively influence their decisions regarding community college funding. Presidents and CEOs from the metropolitan districts communicate most often with their legislators followed by those from rural districts. Board members from the metropolitan districts are most active in communicating with their legislators. Finally, legislators view the community college nearest them as equal to or better than community colleges statewide.
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Daka, Fridah Malindima. "Are the current Zambian constitutional provisions sufficient in preventing abuse of power by the executive organ of government?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15210.
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This paper discusses reasons why democratic governance cannot be attained by the Zambian government without deliberate commitment to the maintenance of values and principles of democracy, good governance and the rule of law. Zambia prides itself to be a democratic and peaceful country. However, accountability, openness and responsiveness to the needs of citizens has been a challenge despite this great record, which has come as a result of free, fair and peaceful elections recorded consecutively since Zambia became a multi-party democracy. The partial fusion of the Executive and Legislative organs of government ably qualified by provisions of the current Constitution, makes it difficult to hold government accountable by the governed. Consequently, presidential appointment of Cabinet Ministers from Parliament equally weakens legislative ability of checking and balancing powers of the Executive. Moreover, appointment of judges by the President is another factor that punches holes in judicial independence and injures the last line of defence. It is as such imperative that the colossal presidential powers are reduced to allow a flourishing democratic society. In the view that the current Constitution does not have adequate provisions to prevent abuse of power by the Executive; this thesis has made recommendations for the Constitution to be amended to provide effective ways of balancing power between the three arms of government. This will inevitably create an environment of mutual accountability in government and construct a platform where the electorate could question irregular administrative actions.
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De, Beer Lourens. "The influence of power distance relationships on the success of lean manufacturing implementations." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/6919.
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The research project measured the influence of lean culture elements as well as power distance elements on the success of lean manufacturing implementations. The literature review revealed that lean transformations are not always successful and sustainable since organisation see these as quick win opportunities to improve short term profits. Lean, however, is a long term philosophy that entails not just quick changes but a fundamental change in the way that business is done. The elements that were measured in the study were organisational awareness, employee engagement, managerial consistency, accountability, mutual respect and autocratic behaviour. The study revealed a strong relationship between these factors and the success of lean implementations. The results indicated that there is a positive relationship between lean culture and the other lean elements. The study also indicated that autocratic behaviour has a positive relationship to lean implementation. The study showed that tools that were developed in the past are valid across various industries and that power distance does play a role in lean implementations.
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Hickerson, Jon D. (Jon David). "The Impact of Corporate Interlocks on Power and Constraint in the Telecommunications Industry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500891/.
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Using the tools of structural and network analysis developed by Ronald R. Burt and others, this study investigated the communication patterns among corporate officers of American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (A.T. & T.) and United Telecommunications Corporation (Sprint). Data on contacts, efficiency, network density, and constraint indicate that opportunities for power and constraint have remained relatively stable at United Telecommunications between 1980 and 1990. A. A.T. & T., on the other hand, was more affected by the drastic changes in the telecommunication industry. The span of A.T. & T. has grown smaller and the potential for constraining relations among A. T. & T. and financial institutions has increased during the period 1980 and 1990.
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Jamison, Elizabeth Cori Shields. "Circuits of Power in Alabama's Immigration Politics: Labor Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77689.
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At the time of its debate and passage in 2010-2011, Alabama's immigration law evoked support and opposition from across the state and nation. Despite the outcry, the Alabama business community projected a pronounced public "silence". This silence was particularly curious because of the law's clear and intended goal of self-deportation of Latinos who are a significant labor source for Alabama agri-businesses and food processing industries. The key question for this dissertation is: Why did the poultry processing industry, which has high populations of Latino employees and a significant industrial presence in Alabama, stay publicly silent despite a predictable impact on their labor supply?
This qualitative analysis used the lens of the circuits of power model to interrogate this question. The findings indicate that Alabama poultry processors found themselves susceptible to the same opportunities and challenges as any other social actor confronted with the racialized, politicized, and historically contingent challenges facing Latino labor in Alabama. In other words, these business actors were fully socially embedded actors within Alabama. I demonstrate that individual residents, relevant associations, Alabama's politicians, and even the poultry processors themselves never fully realized the political vulnerability of their particular embeddedness until it was too late for poultry processing employers to publicly act to protect their Latino employees from this unjust state law.
I collected and triangulated data from multiple sources, including semi-structured interviews, media reports, state and national statistics, official websites, and legal documents. Through discourse and content analysis of this data, I developed a case study that demonstrates how Alabama's poultry processors were on a collision course with Alabama state politicians over immigration reform, but they never saw it coming. In so doing, I raise important questions about limits on the "real" power of economic actors for achieving self-interested business outcomes when those interests contest strongly-held social and cultural norms that are infused with a particular history of race, difference, and alterity in local spaces. I demonstrate that these limits raise questions for the democratic process and have consequences for economic actors with regard to corporate social responsibility claims as they pertain to labor justice.Ph. D.
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Carter, C. J. G. "The dynamics of organizational change : an analysis of power, professions and new managerialism in the case of CoastElectric." Thesis, Aston University, 2000. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10742/.
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It is widely accepted that the Thatcher years and their immediate aftermath were associated with substantive social and organizational change. The privatisation programme, 'the rolling back of the State', prosecuted by the successive Conservative Governments from 1979-1997 was a central pillar of Governmental policy. This thesis seeks to engage with privatization through the of CoastElectric, a newly privatised Regional Electricity Company. This thesis contributes to the extant understanding of the dynamics of organizational change in four major ways. Firstly, the study into CoastElectric addresses the senior management decision making within the organization: in particular, it will attempt to make sense of 'why' particular decisions were made. The theoretical backdrop to this concern will draw on the concepts of normalization, cultural capital and corporate fashion. The argument presented in this thesis is that the decision-making broadly corresponded with that which could be considered to be at the vanguard of mangerialist thought. However, a detailed analysis suggested that at different junctures in CoastElectric's history there were differences in the approach to decision making that warranted further analysis. The most notable finding was that the relative levels of new managerialist cultural capital possessed by the decision-making elite had an important bearing upon whether the decision was formulated either endogenously or exogenously, with the assistance of cultural intermediaries such as management consultants. The thesis demonstrates the importance of the broader discourse of new managerialism in terms of shaping what is considered to be a 'commonsensical, rational' strategy. The second concern of this thesis is that of the process of organizational change. The study of CoastElectric attempts to provide a rich account of the dynamics of organizational change. This is realized through, first, examining the pre-existing context of the organization; second, through analyzing the power politics of change interventions. The master concepts utilised in this endeavour are that of: dividing practices, the establishment of violent hierarchies between competing discourses; symbolic violence; critical turning points; recursiveness; creative destruction; legitimation strategies and the reconstitution of subjects in the workplace.
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Majo, Garigliano Irène. "The Brahmans of the Kāmākhyā temple complex (Assam) : customary rights, relations with pilgrims and administrative power." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100051/document.
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Ma thèse est consacrée aux Brahmanes du complexe de temples de Kamakhya; et plus particulièrement sur les dynamiques socio-politiques et sur les enjeux économiques internes de la communauté de Brahmanes. J'analyse la logique qui organise et hiérarchise la vaste gamme d'activités que seul les Brahmanes peuvent entreprendre; les aspects économiques de ces activités ; et la façon dont les Brahmanes conçoivent et légitiment leurs activités et leur statut. Les Brahmanes sont impliqués dans deux séries d'activités: celles liées au culte publique et celles liées au culte privé (dans leurs rapports avec leurs pèlerins, les Brahmanes ayant droit délèguent certaines activités auxBrahmanes de l'extérieur). Considérer les deux sphères d'activités des Brahmanes m'a permis d'analyser l'importance respective des deux sphères d'activités au niveau des conceptions et au niveau des pratiques entreprises par les Brahmanes ayant droit. Les chapitres de cette thèse démontreront qu'un écart important existe entre ces deux niveaux. Le culte public est la seule activité qui (en théorie] devrait être exécutée chaque jour, ainsi que pendant les fêtes. En même temps, à présent, le complexe de temples reçoit chaque jour des milliers de pèlerins ; cela a un impact profond sur l'organisation interne et l'action de la communauté des Brahmanes. Une des taches de ma thèse sera alors de repérer les dynamiques spécifiques au complexe de temples de Kamakhya que le flux de pèlerins contribue à mettre en place, comme par exemple l'enrichissement de certains Brahmanes et l'émergence de différences économiques importantes au sein de la communauté, avec les inimités auxquelles on peut s'attendre dans une telle situation. La dernière partie de la thèse explore le rôle des Brahmans ayant droit dans l'administration du complexe de temples. A travers J'analyse d'une dispute actuellement en cours, j'explore Ia façon dont les différents acteurs voient la relation entre la distribution des taches rituelles et la hiérarchie qui en résulte et le pouvoir politiqueThis thesis studies the Brahmans of the Kamakhya temple complex; and in particular the social, economic and political issues agitating the priestly community. My interest concerns all Brahmans active at the temple complex. l analyze the logic that organizes and hierarchizes the wide range of activities restricted to Brahmans; the financial aspect of these activities; and the way Brahmans conceptualize and legitimize their activities and standing. The Brahmans are basically involved in two sets of activities: those connected to the public worship and those connected to their relations with pilgrims and the private worship (in dealing with pilgrims, the rights—holder Brahmans delegate certain activities to the Brahmans from outside the Nilachal). Considering both the spheres of activity allowed me to analyze the relative significance of the two spheres at the level of concepts and at that of the practices undertaken by the Brahmans. The chapters of this thesis will show that a significant gap can be detected between the two levels. The public worship is the only activity which (in theory) should be undertaken every day and is understood to be the essential activity of the temple complex. On the 0ther hand, at present the temple complex receives thousands of pilgrims every day; as will be shown, that has a profound impact on the internal organization and agency of the Brahman community. One 0f the main tasks of this thesis will be to find 0ut the specific ways in which the flow of pilgrims contributes to shaping new models of relationships between the Brahmans of the Kamakhya temple complex, to orientating the Brahmans' choices and actions, and to creating significant economic differences among the Brahmans. The last part of the thesis explores the role of the Brahmans in the administration of the temple complex. Through the analyse of a seventeen—year—old dispute l explore the way different actors answer the question whether the political sphere should be informed by ritual ranking among Brahmans and between Brahmans and non—Brahmans or not
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Lieberman, Daina S. ""Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys"| Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606416.
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There is evidence to suggest that the teaching assignment process affects teacher career decisions and therefore teacher retention (Andrews & Quinn, 2004; Donaldson & Johnson, 2010; Feng, 2010; Gardner, 2010; Loeb, Kalogrides, & Beteille, 2012; Ost & Schiman, 2015). Understanding what administrators believe influences their decisions and what teachers perceive influences those decisions shed light on how the teaching assignment process works and how it might affect teacher career decisions. The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the strategies and rationale employed by administrators in the distribution of teaching assignment, the factors teachers perceive to influence the teaching assignment process, whether teachers and administrators believe the process affects teacher retention, and whether teachers believe power relations play a role in the process. Qualitative interpretive design was the best choice of methodology to examine the teacher assignment process in schools (Merriam, 2009). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 teachers and nine administrators in nine districts across six states.
This study used Bourdieu’s concepts of social capital and misrecognition as theoretical framework (1984). In addition, psychological contract, trust, communication, and transparency (Rousseau, 1989; Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 1998) were used as conceptual frameworks. Findings from data analysis included the following: (1) social capital was a component of the teaching assignment process connected to teachers’ preference for honors courses and students; (2) administrator communication and transparency seemed related to teachers’ perception of psychological contract breach, trust in their administrators, and occasionally their career decisions; (3) social conditions were an important factor in teacher retention; (4) teaching assignment had an impact on teacher career decisions; and (5) administrators demonstrated symbolic violence over teachers, evident through language of power and decision making.
This research contributed to a better understanding of how administrators implement the teaching assignment process and how teachers experience that process, with implications for improvement. It is important for administrators to know how changing teaching assignments affects teachers and how teachers understand and experience the process in order to retain high quality teachers.
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Bernal-Bermudez, Laura. "The power of business and the power of people : understanding remedy and business accountability for human rights violations, Colombia 1970-2014." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f211a449-8222-4fbb-8a53-07abc6add43c.
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The questions of business involvement in human rights violations in countries facing civil conflict, as well as access to remedy and accountability for these violations have generated a considerable amount of attention from academia and practitioners. While most theoretical efforts on access to remedy and accountability have focused on identifying the obstacles to access to justice, these do not explain the unlikely case of Colombia, where despite all structural obstacles being present (e.g. armed conflict, corruption), the country has positioned itself as a leader in the region in terms of judicialisation and convictions of economic actors for their complicity with grave human rights violations committed in the course of the 50 year internal armed conflict. This thesis is a theory building and theory-testing project that looks for alternative explanations to the outcomes registered in Colombia, focusing on the agents involved in these cases and how the variation in the power of the people (claimants) and the power of businesses (defendants) explains access to justice. This thesis uses the most comprehensive datasets in existence of business involvement in human rights violations (the Corporations and Human Rights Database and the Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice Database) to present a novel and much needed systematic analysis to identify the factors explaining why and when remedy and accountability is possible. The results of the study suggest that the variations in the power of people and the power of business do offer a plausible alternative explanation to the unlikely case of Colombia. The Colombia data analyzed in this thesis suggests that while an increase in the power of the people (through the support of global actors and political opportunities) is necessary to secure judicialisation and remedy, these results are only possible when they face an economic actor with reduced veto power.
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Jiang, Yutao (James). "Leveraged Buyouts: The Predictive Power of Target Firm Characteristics." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2059.
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This paper utilizes a hazard model to predict the probability of leveraged buyout transactions for public firms. Rather than testing specific hypotheses, this paper incorporates all plausible predictors identified in existing literature to better delineate the effects of different characteristics. Largely confirming past results, I find that LBO transactions are more likely to occur for companies with more stable cash flows, less market visibility, lower market valuation, lower ownership concentration and lower costs of financial distress. By including LBO transactions from 1980 to September 2018, I find preliminary evidence that since the financial crisis of 2008 – 2009, private equity firms have modified their selection criteria when sourcing LBO deal targets.
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Prieto-Carron, Marina. "Gender, power and corporate social responsibility: Central American Women Workers and Codes of Conduct." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492590.
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This thesis describes an inquiry into why corporate codes of conduct and in general Corporate Social Responsibility is not making a difference to women workers in supply lains in developing countries. Codes of conduct can be defined as policy tools that set up 'voluntary' social standards for multinational companies in their international operations.
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van, Strien David Samuel. "American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492199443310933.
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van, Zandvoort Elyse. "Exercising power through CSR communication on Facebook : Insights from the oil industry." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31106.
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Corporations are increasingly using social media as a tool for communicating Corporate Social Responsibility. Marketing researchers have conducted ample research on the topic, however, a communication perspective is missing. In order to fill this gap and gain a nuanced understanding of how corporations are communicating CSR and potentially enacting power relations, this thesis focuses on linguistic elements in CSR- related Facebook posts. A content analysis was performed on the Facebook pages of three oil corporations, covering a total of 120 posts. Results demonstrate that all three companies aim for engagement with the audience, using various semantic and sensory interactivity elements, and maintaining an informal writing style. Despite the latter seemingly contradicting the assumption that corporations are enacting power, there are elements that support this claim. The corporations implement a constraint of content in their posts through the use of abstract writing, and include a constraint on positions through the narrative styles of accounting and advertisement, which offer limited encouragement for participation. Regarding rhetoric, the ethos included in the posts carried significant interconnection with the CSR topics discussed, through which the companies seemed to enforce constraints of content. Shell and Total emphasize certain environmental issues, while not focusing on other impacts. BP does not not target environmental issues and mainly highlights positive social impact. Although the enactment of power is not present in each of the linguistic structures of the posts, there are elements that indicate the presence of power relations, which could offer groundwork for further research.
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Trotter, David Mitchell. "State autonomy, corporate power, and advanced electronic information and communications networks, the Digital Signature Standard." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0016/MQ47971.pdf.
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Turner, Graham Mark. "Home-working, power and the governance of BT : the techniques and practices of corporate change." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427392.
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Zaman, Mahbub. "Beyond formal governance structures and processes: an institutional and power analysis of corporate audit committees." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488096.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide insights into processes associated with operation of audit committees (ACs) and their effects on aspects of corporate governance. The thesis provides a critique of extant studies of ACs, develops an alternative framework for researching ACs, analyses evidence of AC operation and their effects on internal control and risk management, financial reporting and external audit in three case companies. The thesis seeks to contribute to the literature on ACs in a number of ways. First, it provides a historical background to the development of ACs (chapter 2) and examines the available international evidence relating to corporate governance effects of ACs (chapter 3). It concludes that in many areas where ACs have been expected to bring governance benefits the findings thus far are either inconclusive or very limited. Chapter 3 of the thesis also concludes that the limited contribution of the extant literature on ACs may be attributable to (i) a narrow focus on the use of the agency theory perspective, (ii) the predominant reliance on quantitative methods and (iii) the development of research around theories of AC existence rather than theories of AC operation and effects. Second, the thesis seeks to make a contribution to the literature by developing an alternative framework for conceptualising the operation and effects of ACs. The theoretical framework developed in chapters 5 and 6 draw upon institutional and power perspectives and aims to reflect better the reality of the context in which ACs operate in practice. Considering the lack of attention given to the operational and institutional context of ACs in extant studies this framework is an important contribution. Third, the thesis provides empirical evidence on the operation and effects of ACs in three companies. The theoretical framework is used to analyse the three cases individually (chapters 7-9) and for cross-case analysis (chapter 10). The investigation into AC processes and effects concludes (chapter 11) that ACs are adopted for a variety of reasons and that AC related outcomes are determined by the nature of the AC process rather than their formal terms of reference and scheduled meetings. This process is influenced by power relationships in which alliances and networks between agencies (both individual and committees/functional units) and the utilisation of standing conditions by agencies are important factors.
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Rankin, Michaela, and Michaela Rankin@buseco monash edu au. "Determinants of Executive Remuneration: Australian Evidence." RMIT University. Accounting and Law, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080812.140803.
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Corporate governance, and the role of executive pay in particular, has received increased attention from the media, government, and the business arena in recent years. The study reported in this thesis adds to our understanding of both the components and determinants of Australian remuneration packages for the top management team. It does so in four main ways: 1. The study examines the determinants of compensation of a range of senior executives within the organisation, in addition to the CEO. No Australian research, to date, explores the structure and determinants of remuneration beyond the CEO; 2. The research is conducted in a contemporary setting and timeframe, where corporations are subject to expanded disclosure requirements, when compared to the subjects of prior Australian research; 3. It examines an expanded range of factors documented in overseas research as likely to relate to remuneration, some of which have not been previously examined in Australian work; 4. Finally, in developing hypotheses concerning factors expected to relate to remuneration, the study reconciles the perspectives provided by both agency and managerial power theories in terms of how they present similar and differing propositions. The research examines both cash and incentive components of executive compensation disclosed by a sample of top 300 Australian companies in 2005. The model incorporates measures of firm performance, economic characteristics, board monitoring and governance characteristics, and ownership characteristics in an attempt to explain the level of executive compensation. The study extends analysis beyond the CEO to incorporate an investigation of both the structure and determinants of compensation of the top five executives, in addition to the CEO. Results indicate that the structure of CEO compensation has changed since prior Australian research was conducted, to include a more heavy reliance on incentive pay. In contrast to the US, the structure of CEO remuneration differs from that of non-CEO executives. As managers move progressively up the senior executive hierarchy, short-term cash bonus and share-based incentive pay both become more important as components of remuneration. There is also a greater reliance on performance hurdles than has been documented in prior Australian and international research. The expectation that remuneration is now more strongly tied to firm performance is supported. The size and complexity of the firm are also considered to be important in determining the level of various components of both CEO and non-CEO executive compensation. This supports the view that larger, more complex entities attract higher quality executives, and pay for such quality and expertise. Growth firms are more likely to pay higher levels of incentive pay and total compensation to CEOs than non-growth firms. Executive remuneration also relates to the strength of various monitoring and governance mechanisms, although to a greater extent for CEOs than for other senior executives. Managers are able to influence the remuneration-setting process where governance structures are weak, or where they have greater influence. In some cases factors relating to CEO compensation differ from those associated with compensation of lower-level executives.
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Krajnovic, Tamara. "Multi-level governance and wind power construction in Sweden : A case study of Norrköping and a current wind power construction plan." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-192866.
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This case study focuses on wind power development in Norrköping using a multi-level governance approach. The aim is to examine the wind power decision-making process from the state to Norrköping municipality and to identify other factors that impact wind power development in the area. A textual analysis comparing national political party platforms and local parties' official stances and interviews has been used to achieve this study's goal. The study shows that the decision-making in vertical multi-level governance is both bottom-up and top-down. It also sheds light on a significant role the Swedish Armed Forces play in this process as an external actor. The study concludes that vertical multi-level governance, including municipal veto, although an important factor, needs to be complemented with external factors to see how it affects wind power development in Norrköping.
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Lee, Sunyoung. "Distributed effects in power transistors and the optimization of the layouts of AlGaN/GaN HFETs." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149095133.
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Steen, Anton. "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Wind Power Industry : - a study about CSR preferences and stakeholder involvement." Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-41222.
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This thesis aims to determine what CSR issues stakeholders in the wind power industry careabout and how stakeholders want to be involved in these issues. The objective is furthermoreto test and improve the theory of stakeholder involvement – the normative idea thatstakeholder management should strive for maximum stakeholder involvement.The study is carried out using a case study, o2, an important actor in the wind power industryin Sweden. Five stakeholder groups are included in the study, customers, capital providers, inthe form of a major bank and a private equity company, NGO’s and lastly regulators.The study contributes directly to the stakeholder management practices in the wind powerindustry by giving guidance on how to prioritize among different stakeholder groups as wellas to the untested theory of stakeholder involvement by applying the theory to a real casestudy.The result of the study suggests that stakeholders value environmentally related CSR issuesmore than socially related CSR issues. In particular the issues of emissions and flora & faunaare classified as the most important CSR issues for the wind power industry to manage.Furthermore, the theory of stakeholder involvement is shown to be misleading for thestakeholders closest to the company, the once with a direct contractual stake (customers andcapital providers). However, it is shown to be directly applicable, and useful, to thestakeholders more external to the company (NGO’s and regulators).
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Giani, Anton Louis. "Corporate governance : power, duties, responsibilities and functions of the board : practical guidelines for Agricol Beherend Limited." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49896.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Corporate governance has become the latest business "buzz-word" during the last number of years. It is almost being used as an excuse for too many things that go wrong with, or within, companies. However, the word is not going to disappear from business lexicon, it has come to stay. Too many companies and investors have suffered due to the greed of individuals, appointed to lead and manage the business that have misused their position of trust and enriched themselves in many ways. This could have been brought about by many reasons: • Directors who have not been trained properly for their fiduciary duties and other duties and responsibilities. • Directors who have not been evaluated on their performance as a board or individually. • No formal governance structures within the organisation. • No culture of accountability within the organisation. • Simple greed. This study concentrates on some of the literature, ranging from the Cadbury report released in 1992, the OECD principles and international trends, to the South African King II Report, released in 2002. From the literature, and the recommendations from it, there can be no doubt that the pressure to improve governance structures will become fiercer around the globe. Investors are taking it seriously and are willing to pay a premium for shares in a properly governed enterprise. Directors will have to sharpen their skills in being the primary instrument in preventing further corporate scandals. The importance of their accountability towards the company will be measured when board evaluation no longer is an exception, but the rule, in creating effective boards. Agricol Beherend Limited should be no exception. Although not required to formally comply with the recommendations of the King II Code, it can only be advantageous in striving to long-term sustainability. It is further concluded that entrepreneurship is at the heart of capitalistic society, the sphere in which businesses operate in creating wealth for their investors. This is where the influence and leadership abilities of non-executives play a vital role in creating the environment and culture for enterprises to flourish in. They have to determine the equilibrium between conformance and performance in keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive, yet complying with best practice principles of corporate governance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Korporatiewe bestuur, of beheer, het oor die laaste aantal jare die nuutste gebruikswoorde in die besigheidsomgewing geword. Dit word feitlik as verskoning gebruik vir alles wat met, of binne-in, organisasies verkeerd loop. Desnieteenstaande, die woorde gaan nie van die algemene besigheidsspreektaal verdwyn nie, dit het gekom om te bly. Te veel maatskappye en beleggers het gely onder die hebsug van individue wat aangestel is om maatskappye te lei en te bestuur, maar wat hulle vertrouensposisie misbruik het om hulself op verskeie maniere te verryk. Dit kon deur 'n verskeidenheid van redes teweeggebring gewees het: • Direkteure wat nie behoorlik opgelei is in hulle fudisiëre pligte, asook ander pligte en verantwoordelikhede nie. • Direkteure wat nie behoorlik geëvalueer is op hulle prestasie as 'n raad of op individuele basis nie. • Geen behoorlike formele korporatiewe bestuursstrukture binne die maatskappy nie. • Geen kultuur van verantwoording binne die maatskappy nie. • Eenvoudige hebsug. Die studie konsentreer op sekere gedeeltes van die literatuur wat strek van die Cadbury verslag wat in1992 vrygestel is, die OECD beginsels en internasionale tendense, tot by die Suid-Afrikaanse King II verslag wat in 2002 verskyn het. Uit die literatuur, en die aanbevelings daarin vervat, kan daar geen twyfel wees dat die druk om korporatiewe beheerstrukture te verbeter in die toekoms, wêreldwyd, slegs groter sal word nie. Beleggers is besig om ernstig daarna op te let en is selfs bereid om 'n premie te betaal vir aandele in 'n organisasie wat behoorlike korporatiewe bestuur toepas. Direkteure sal hulle vaardighede moet opknap, aangesien hulle die primêre instrument is om verdere korporatiewe skandale te voorkom. Die belangrikheid van hulle verantwoording teenoor die maatskappy sal gemeet word wanneer die evaluering van direksies nie meer die uitsondering is nie, maar die reël, in die samestelling van effektiewe direksies. Agricol Beherend Beperk behoort geen uitsondering te wees nie. Alhoewel dit nie verlang word om formeel aan die aanbevelings van die King II Kode te voldoen nie, kan dit slegs tot voordeel wees in die strewe na langtermyn volhoubaarheid. Die verdere gevolgtrekking is dat entrepreneurskap die kern vorm van 'n kapitalistiese bestel, die ruimte waarin besighede opereer om welvaart vir beleggers te skep. Dit is waar die invloed en leierskapsvaardighede van nie-uitvoerende direkteure 'n belangrike rol speel in die skepping van 'n omgewing en kultuur waarbinne besighede kan floreer. Hulle moet die ekwilibrium bepaal tussen voldoening en prestasie, deur 'n gees van entrepreneurskap, terwyl daar voldoen word aan beste korporatiewe bestuursbeginsels.
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Rush, Kenneth G. "On schooling for political compliance, career and technology studies and the hegemonic power of administrative technology in late capitalism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0012/MQ60078.pdf.
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Okoye, Adaeze Chinweogo. "Re-defining corporate social responsibility as a legitimizing force for corporate power : to what extent can law and a law-jobs perspective contribute to corporate social responsibility?" Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7077.
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Lin, Wei-Yu, and 林偉譽. "The Constitutional Limit between the Legislative Power and Administrative Power." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/623n32.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
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Legislative Power and Administrative Power are the recognition of the democratic government. However, the interaction between Legislative Power and Administrative Power has been imitated as to be indistinguishable from the original since they are virtually separated from interdependence. The state power limit and tasks division, regulated by the constitution, which belong to the power of constitutionalists is called " Verfassungsvorbehalt." Without the basis of constitutional entrustment or authorization, the legislators are not allowed to legally intervene in Administrative Power. This is the mutual equality between Legislative Power and Administrative Power under the framework of Five Power Division, but rather than that Legislative Power surpass Administrative Power. However, under the political system of political parties, the implementation of policies due to the party alternation is subject to that the legislators attempt to intervene the ruling party by the mean of enactment with Legislative Power. Thus, under Verfassungsvorbehalt, Legislative Power can only claim that Administrative Power is subject to Gesetzesvorbehalt in the execution of administrative matters, and violates the limit of administrative retention. In contrast, the executives administer affairs in accordance with the law, nor may claim to expand the power of legal interpretation under the basis of law entrustment or authorization, improperly promulgate various interpretative letters and administrative rules to go beyond Gesetzesvorbehalt of Legislative Power. Geltungsvorrang is applied to the effectiveness of the norm. In addition, Legislative Power and Administrative Power should scrupulously observe the power of constitutional limit, but not to expand their respective powers, deprive of right of another, effectively construct a constitutional government system, and defend the constitutional order. The constitutional principle and the constitutional internal struggle crisis between Legislative Power and Administrative Power cited by the author of this thesis is intended to review the constitutional conflicts between Legislative Power and Administrative Power in recent years in our country, and then to explore how Constitution of our country regulates the separation of powers and balances constitutional limit between Legislative Power and Administrative Power. This study adopts Literature Review to look back the implementation of constitutionalism in our country. In addition, literatures are also inductive and compiled in order to put forward the opinions and views under the discussion on constitutionalism structure.
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LIN, YU-SHAN, and 林育珊. "The Study on the supervision and cooperation between audit power and administrative power." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pg36k5.
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碩士東吳大學
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In recent years, in order to promote good governance, the audit power has been gradually extended from compliance audit that emphasizes on financial legality to performance audit that focus on economics, efficiency and efficiency（3E）. That makes audit rights play a more valuable role in government governance. This study explores the positioning and characteristic of audit power and introduces the audit system for different countries for analyzing and comparing. This article also discuss the supervision and cooperation between audit power and administrative power with literature review and case analysis. The innovation of the audit business has transformed the auditing agency from traditional financial supervisors into the advisory role of governance. In2015, Articles 69 of the Audit Act were amended to enhance the functions of insight and foresight. Where auditing agencies discover the potential risks, they shall provide the government agencies early-warning recommendations. They are not only monitering governance performance, also helping the administrative agencies to establish risk management systems. Duties and functions of audit power is to supervise the implementation of budget; to certify annual financial reports; to judge financial responsibilities etc. Since performance audit results is not compulsory, and may also involve the discretion of the administrative agencies. It should establish a more flexible opposition proceeding to complete the mechanism of audit power. On the other hand, to establish the cooperative relationship between the executive power and the audit power, in the view of whole government, the government has promoted the partnership between two major government bodies. The legal duties of audit agency includes to make suggestions for enhancement of financial efficiency and reduction of non-economic expenditures; to provide efficiency or advance public welfare recommendations to the audited agencies or related agencies; to provide the government agencies early-warning recommendations on potential risks. In the future, to promote good governance, the audit agency shall continues to strengthen the partnership with the administrative agencies through the compliance audit and performance audit of financial supervision, play the role of corruption prevention and profits promotion, develop the advisory role of govermance.
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CHANG, KAI-TING, and 張凱婷. "Risk Regulation and Administrative Litigation of Wind Power." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zm67s4.
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碩士東吳大學
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The government has promoted the renewable energy in the last few years, offshore wind power plays an important role soon after the onshore wind power has been developed for several years. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the balance between the development of wind power and the environmental protection, and prevent the environmental crisis caused by wind power exploitation. Several risks may be caused by wind power development such as bird strikes, marine ecological destruction, the injury to the physiology or phycology of residents. However, whether the risks happen or not is in doubt, the causal relationship is not positive. This is the reason that this thesis started the discuss from the risk regulation. In addition to surveying the statute in Taiwan, this thesis will also analyze disputes in accordance with the wind power energy operation such as Regional Planning, Zoning, Non-urban Land Development, Development permit, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment. There are some problems of the statute: Zoning can be changed by the permit from the agency, overlapping jurisdiction of the authorities, the procedure of development permits is feckless, the lack of uniform review standards by local governments, the lack of public participation, and the SEA cannot perform the function, etc. The analysis and suggestions about above issues will be discussed in this thesis according to the Regional planning Act, Regulations on Non-urban Land Use Control, Spatial Planning Act, Electricity Act, Environmental Impact Appraisal Law, Coastal Zone Management Act and Underwater Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, etc. In the last chapter, it will be discussed in Administrative Litigation, it also an important part of this thesis. The litigation will solve the problem caused from current states. The litigation and the states system can construct a comprehensive natural conservation and legal protection. Finally, the dispute can be resolved without litigation.