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Chapple, Larelle June. "Abuse of corporate power." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lorrimar, Jane. "Organisational culture in TAFE colleges: power, gender and identity politics." Thesis, Lorrimar, Jane (2006) Organisational culture in TAFE colleges: power, gender and identity politics. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gao, Xue. "Internal control, corporate governance attributes, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure: Evidence from the power and chemical industries in China." Thesis, Gao, Xue (2021) Internal control, corporate governance attributes, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure: Evidence from the power and chemical industries in China. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/63411/.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been attracting attention, especially in the context of the power and chemical industries in China, which are known to be heavy environmental polluters and raise significant concerns for the Chinese government and the international community. However, the impact of internal control and the CEO’s political connections on CSR disclosure are under-researched in the previous literature.
This study investigates the relationship between internal control, corporate governance attributes, the CEO’s political connections and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in China’s power and chemical industries. The companies in the sample are selected from the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) in China. The main reason for selecting the power and chemical industries is that they are known as heavy environmental polluters in China. This study uses the Dibo Internal Control Index from Shenzhen Dibo Enterprise Risk Management Technology Co. Ltd. to measure the level of internal control. This study also collects available CSR and annual reports to measure CSR disclosure. Finally, this study selects 265 companies from China’s power and chemical industries with 892 company-year observations from 2013–2016.
Based on multiple theories (institutional theory, legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory), a model is designed to examine the impact of internal control, corporate governance and the CEO’s political connections on CSR disclosure practices. The results suggest a significant and positive relationship between internal control and CSR disclosure. It is also found that corporate governance attributes, such as state ownership, board independence and existence of an audit committee, have a significant positive impact on CSR disclosure. However, no significant relationship is found between the CEO’s political connections and CSR disclosure in the context of China’s power and chemical industries. This study also finds that company size, the company’s industry and the company’s location significantly impact on the extent of CSR disclosure.
Overall, the results suggest that internal control and sound corporate governance play a significant role in CSR disclosure in heavily polluting companies in China.
The study has two significant distinguishing features from other research. Firstly, two variables, namely, internal control and the CEO’s political connections, are underresearched in the previous literature have been included in this study, providing insights for CSR research. Secondly, this study investigates CSR disclosure in the context of the power and chemical industries in China, which are known to be heavy environmental polluters. This study also provides empirical support to institutional, legitimacy and stakeholder theories. For example, the study’s findings imply that regulations have a significant impact on CSR in China’s power and chemical industries which supports institutional theory. Similarly, in line with legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory, China’s power and chemical companies implement CSR to survive, to avoid legitimacy threats and to meet the expectations of different stakeholders.
The study’s findings provide useful information to regulators of China’s heavily polluting industries. Firstly, the positive impact of internal control on CSR disclosure provides theoretical support for regulatory policy on internal control; thus, Chinese regulators could enhance CSR disclosure by improving internal control. Secondly, policy makers and regulators can improve CSR disclosure by encouraging improvements in corporate governance due to the positive relationship between corporate governance and CSR disclosure. Thirdly, the non-significant relationship between the CEO’s political connections and CSR disclosure supports regulatory policies on heavily polluting industries, as China's regulation of these industries has moved from relying on local governments to reliance on laws, supervision and information disclosure which avoids adverse political impacts. Finally, this study has practical implications for investors and managers. Investors should pay attention on internal control, the corporate governance structure and CSR disclosure when investing in China’s power and chemical companies. Moreover, investors and managers can improve CSR disclosure by improving internal control and optimising the corporate governance structure, thereby improving the company’s legitimacy and viability.
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Pi, Lili. "The determinants of chief executive officer turnover in Chinese listed companies : An aspiration level and power perspective." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2009. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57735.
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This study focuses on the determinants of CEO turnover of listed companies in China, the largest transitional and developing economy in the world, where governance institutions and structures are evolving. Drawing on the strategic change, aspiration, and CEO power literature, a CEO turnover model and a set of hypotheses have been contructed.Doctor of Philosophy
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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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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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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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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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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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Soleimani, Abrahim. "Essays on Corporate Reputation: Antecedents and Consequences." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/419.
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This dissertation studied the determinants and consequences of corporate reputation. It explored how firm-, industry-, and country-level factors influence the general public’s assessment of a firm’s reputation and how this reputation assessment impacted the firm’s strategic actions and organizational outcomes. The three empirical essays are grounded on separate theoretical paradigms in strategy, organizational theory, and corporate governance. The first essay used signaling theory to investigate firm-, industry-, and country-level determinants of individual-level corporate reputation assessments. Using a hierarchical linear model, it tested the theory based on individual evaluations of the largest companies across countries. Results indicated that variables at multiple analysis levels simultaneously impact individual level reputation assessments. Interactions were also found between industry- and country-level factors. Results confirmed the multi-level nature of signaling influences on reputation assessments.
Building on a stakeholder-power approach to corporate governance, the second essay studied how differences in the power and preferences of three stakeholder groups – shareholders, creditors, and workers – across countries influence the general public’s reputation assessments of corporations. Examining the largest companies across countries, the study found that while the influence of stock market return is stronger in societies where shareholders have more power, social performance has a more significant role in shaping reputation evaluations in societies with stronger labor rights. Unexpectedly, when creditors have greater power, the influence of financial stability on reputation assessment becomes weaker.
Exploring the consequences of reputation, the third essay investigated the specific effects of intangible assets on strategic actions and organizational outcomes. Particularly, it individually studied the impacts of acquirer acquisition experience, corporate reputation, and approach toward social responsibilities as well as their combined effect on market reactions to acquisition announcements. Using an event study of acquisition announcements, it confirmed the significant impacts of both action-specific (acquisition experience) and general (reputation and social performance) intangible assets on market expectations of acquisition outcomes. Moreover, the analysis demonstrated that reputation magnifies the impact of acquisition experience on market response to acquisition announcements. In conclusion, this dissertation tried to advance and extend the application of management and organizational theories by explaining the mechanisms underlying antecedents and consequences of corporate reputation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Binns, Jennifer. "The possibilities of relational leading : rethinking gender, power, reason and ethics in leadership discourse and practice." University of Western Australia. UWA Business School, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0024.
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This dissertation is located within debates around post heroic leadership. It takes as axiomatic the argument that we need to rethink leadership in ways that are not irredeemably bound to ideals of instrumental rationality, hegemonic masculinity and competitive individualism but are, instead, informed by the ‘feminine’ principles of mutuality, care and what Deborah Kerfoot (1999) terms ‘emotional intimacy’. I call this alternative construct ‘relational leading’ in order to underline my position that leading is about connecting (in an authentic, empathic and ethical way) with others and across functions. This alternative understanding of leadership draws on Joyce Fletcher's (1999) model of a relational practice grounded in the ‘disappeared’ feminine. While positing relational leading as a feminist alternative to dominant masculinist conceptions of leadership, this dissertation attempts to avoid reinvoking dualistic representations. It does this by thinking leadership as a practice undertaken by complex, embodied subjects whose capacity to creatively transcend binaries of masculine/feminine, reason/emotion, and power/powerlessness opens up possibilities for, in the words of Amanda Sinclair (1998), ‘doing leadership differently’. There is, however, a cautionary note in the recognition that identities and practices are discursively regulated or culturally patterned, so that men and women who ‘do’ leadership face constant pressures to masculinise or feminise their identities. Such processes perpetuate both gender stereotypes and the privileging of a masculinised notion of leadership that Sinclair (1998) calls the heroic archetype. Nonetheless, the dissertation ends on an optimistic note, proposing reflexive practice as the agent of change and the condition for being/becoming a practitioner of relational leading, against the grain of masculine heroism and rational instrumentalism.
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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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Lai, Pak-kin. "A study of the corporate strategy of a large electric utility company in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17982960.
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Junior, Sydney Manzione. "A responsabilidade social empresarial e o flerte da comunicação com o poder." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-20082012-173510/.
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A situação planetária exige, cada vez mais, atenção. São cuidados com o meio ambiente e com os caminhos que levarão a existência humana a uma situação de conforto, declínio ou, quiçá, desaparecimento. Nesse contexto surge a necessidade da reação da sociedade mundial em prol da sustentabilidade e da defesa do meio ambiente e, claro, da sociedade. O conceito de sustentabilidade aparece com força, explicando que uma empresa deve cuidar de si, de forma a que sua produção e comercialização não destruam, mas que o que seja gasto no processo produtivo seja devolvido à natureza. Em paralelo a esse processo, há um clamor social em direção ao combate da corrupção, em busca de ética, seja no âmbito governamental, seja no empresarial. Do atendimento a esses dois pontos surge a Responsabilidade Social Empresarial, que pressupõe que uma empresa deva garantir a sustentabilidade, agir com ética, atender sua comunidade e cumprir seu papel social, pagando impostos e tratando seus funcionários condignamente. Muitas empresas, engajadas no conceito de triple botton line, vêm fazendo projetos sérios na direção de uma verdadeira Responsabilidade Social Empresarial. Outras, inclusive de grande porte, aproveitando-se do tema, usam projetos de Responsabilidade Social Empresarial com o intuito único de alavancar a imagem de suas marcas. Independente da intenção, no entanto, a comunicação da Responsabilidade Social Empresarial confere à organização uma dose de poder, ou, em alguns casos, permite que ações não sejam notadas ou percebidas, muito em função desse poder adquirido. PalavrasThe planetary situation demands, more and more attention. It is the care of the environment, and with the ways that lead to human existence in a situation of comfort, decline or, perhaps, disappearance In this context appears the need of the reaction of the world society for the benefit of the sustainability and the protection of the environment and of course of the society. The concept of sustainability appears with force, explaining that a company must take care of themselves, in order that their production and marketing does not destroy the environment, but that what is spent in the production process is \"returned\" to nature. In parallel to this process, there is a public outcry toward the fight against corruption in search of ethics that is within the framework of government, or in business. The attendance at these two points there is the Corporate Social Responsibility, which requires that an enterprise should ensure sustainability, act with ethical, meet their community and to meet their social role, paying taxes and dealing with their employees with dignity. Many companies, involved in the concept of triple bottom line, have been doing serious projects in the direction of a real Corporate Social Responsibility. Others, including large companies, taking advantage of the subject, use projects in Corporate Social Responsibility with the only intent to leverage the image of their brands. Regardless of the intention, however, the communication of Corporate Social Responsibility gives the organization a dose of power, or, in some cases, enables actions are not noticed or perceived, much in the light of that power purchased.
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Strangfeld, Jennifer Ann. "Corporate unity as a power dynamic : a study of corporate cohesion in the formation of the 1979 National Energy Policy and the 1992 Energy Policy Act /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1288651941&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-183). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Fernandes, da Costa Aleksandra. "Corporate power in international natural resource governance : a sociological perspective on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18122.
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An emerging consensus in the academic literature explicitly recognises large corporations as political actors. Against this background, this research investigates how corporate power operates through political practices in international multi-stakeholder governance processes and how it is legitimised. The central focus of research is the EITI, a sophisticated and well regarded international standard for natural resource governance in which corporations from the extractive industries and institutional investors have been granted decision-making rights at the Board level. Moreover, the research aims at understanding the consequences of corporate power on the Standard's design and performance. Relying on a conceptual framework based on the writings of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis proposes a refined theoretical approach to corporate power by introducing the concepts of corporate symbolic authority and corporate political practice. This research was undertaken using a mixed-methods approach consisting of content analysis, interviews and participant observation. The findings suggest that companies are privileged partners in the EITI while members from resource-rich countries are effectively disadvantaged. The companies' privileged status is legitimised through taken-for-granted-assumptions portraying them as positive, responsible and exceptional agents. It rests on possession and deployment of various forms of resources, and is enshrined into EITI's principles and procedures. Thus, despite EITI's emphasis on transparency, inclusion and equality (in decision-making), the Standard ultimately reflects and perpetuates the existing power asymmetries which cause disempowerment and poverty of people in resource-rich countries in the first place. This effectively undermines EITI's impact and outcome. In conclusion, the argument is presented that by including corporations into international governance processes already influential actors not only gain direct access to decision-making, but additionally to symbolic authority. This further enhances and consolidates corporate power with substantial consequences for legitimate and effective governance at the international level. Therefore, this thesis enhances our understanding of corporate power and its deployment in multi-stakeholder governance at the international level.
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Sheehan, Jared J. "Risk and CSR Reporting: A Case Study of AEP’s Corporate Accountability Report." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303341741.
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Ampofo, Akwasi Amankwaah. "Two Essays on Capital Structure Decisions of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Entrenchment and Ethical Corporate Citizenship." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103152.
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This dissertation consists of two essays on the impact of managerial entrenchment and ethical corporate citizenship on capital structure decisions of the firm. The first essay examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility and capital structure decisions of firms. Agency conflicts and asymmetric information between managers and shareholders of firms exacerbate managerial entrenchment, which is operationalized using the entrenchment index. The excess cash ratio of a firm over the median cash ratio of firms within the same 3 digits SIC code is the proxy for financial flexibility. Capital structure decisions include the extent and maturity of debt as proxied by debt-to-equity ratio, and average debt maturity respectively. Results indicate that compared to managers who are not entrenched, entrenched managers obtain less rather than more debt, and they use long-term rather than short-term debt maturity. Also, entrenched managers keep more excess cash than managers who are not entrenched. This is especially the case for firms in small and large market value groups compared to medium sized firms. Results do not change before, during, and after the 2008 global economic crisis.
The second essay examines the impact of ethical corporate citizenship and CEO power on cost of capital, and firm value in the context of stakeholder theory. Firms listed as World's Most Ethical Companies (WMECs) exemplify ethical corporate citizenship, which is operationalized as a binary variable of 1 for WMECs, and zero for non-WMECs. This paper matches WMECs and non-WMECs control firms in the same 3 digits SIC code, and within 10 percent of total assets. CEO power is primarily measured using CEO pay slice calculated as CEO total compensation as a percentage of top 5 executives of the firm. Powerful CEOs have pay slice above the 50th percentile, and weak CEOs pay slice is below the 50th percentile. Tobin's q is the proxy for firm value, and cost of capital is measured as the market value weighted cost of debt, and cost of equity. Results indicate that WMECs have neither lower cost of capital nor higher Tobin's q than matched control sample of non-WMECs. Firms led by powerful CEOs have significantly lower cost of debt capital, and lower industry-adjusted Tobin's q than firms led by weak CEOs. The negative impact of CEO power on firm value is consistent with agency theory that self-interested CEOs extract firm value for personal advantage, subject to managerial controls. Results have implications for research and practice in capital structure, corporate governance, CEO compensation, and corporate social responsibility.Doctor of Philosophy
This study consists of two essays. Essay 1 examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility, and leverage decisions of the firm. Managerial entrenchment is measured using the entrenchment index. The excess cash ratio of a firm over the median cash ratio of firms measures financial flexibility. Capital structure decisions include the extent and maturity of debt as measured by debt-to-equity ratio, and average debt maturity respectively. I find that entrenched managers use less debt than managers who are not entrenched. Also, entrenched managers prefer using long-term rather than short-term debt, and they keep more excess cash than managers who are not entrenched. This is especially the case for small and large firms compared to medium sized firms. Essay 2 investigates the impact of ethical corporate citizenship and CEO power on cost of capital, and firm value. Ethical corporate citizenship (ECC) refers to firms' commitment to a culture of ethics, effective governance, leadership, and innovation. ECC is measured as a binary variable of one if a firm is listed on World's Most Ethical Companies (WMEC), and zero otherwise. CEO power is primarily measured using CEO pay slice that is calculated as CEO total compensation as a percentage of top 5 executives of the firm. Powerful CEOs have pay slice above the 50th percentile, and weak CEOs pay slice is below the 50th percentile. WMECs and non-WMECs in the same 3 digits standard industry classification, which have similar total assets as the WMECs are compared. I find that WMECs have neither lower cost of capital nor higher Tobin's q than non-WMECs. Powerful CEOs often utilize their influence to reduce cost of debt capital, but also reduce firm value compared to weak CEOs. Self-interested CEOs who extract firm value for personal advantage partly explains the negative effect of CEO power on firm value.
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Berkhout, Thomas. "The Voluntary Adoption of Green Electricity by Ontario-Based Businesses." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1009.
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This paper explores the contextual factors that promote and inhibit firms? motivations to adopt a voluntary environmental initiative that is good for the environment but does not provide a clear competitive or legitimating benefit to the firm itself. Using green electricity (e. g. , wind, solar, small hydro, and biomass) as an example of such an initiative, the study uses qualitative research to investigate the willingness of 20 Canadian businesses to voluntarily adopt green electricity for at least a portion of their total electricity requirements. Although the corporate ecological responsiveness literature reveals that external factors (e. g. , economic, government, infrastructure), organizational factors (e. g. , industry cohesion), and individual factors (e. g. , leadership, individual interest, manager discretion) can all affect the types of environmental projects that firms will adopt, in the case of green electricity the external factors were the more significant obstacles to it being perceived as a viable means to improve corporate environmental performance. In firms currently using green electricity, these obstacles were largely overcome by the successful efforts of an internal champion motivated primarily by individual values. An important aspect of the champion?s success is her ability to attach her personal interest to a tangible business issue. This task is in turn aided by proactive or sustaining corporate environmental strategies that formalize continual environmental improvement processes and are predisposed to evaluating the success of an initiative on more than its financial or legitimizing contribution to the firm.
Based on these findings, the thesis concludes that the two most important factors associated with the willingness of firms to adopt an initiative that is good for the environment but not necessarily good for the firm are the development of decision-making criteria that extend beyond the bottom-line and the capability of concerned individuals to legitimize the initiative within the firm.
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Chhophel, Tandin. "Participative behaviour of organisational leaders: The perspective of the Bhutanese corporate sector." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83028/1/Tandin_Chhophel_Thesis.pdf.
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Explored in this study are the participative behaviour of organisational leaders in the emerging for-profit sector in Bhutan. Leaders engage primarily in verbal participative behaviour with subordinates when making organisational decisions especially if they believe in the importance of the contribution of participation to organization effectiveness. Leaders who believe in high power distance however are less likely to engage in both verbal participative behaviour and consultative participative behaviour. The research contributes to our understanding of participative decision making by identifying dimensions of participative behavior in the context of emerging economies.
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Smith, Denis. "Corporate power, risk assessment and the control of major hazards : A study of Canvey Island and Ellesmere Port." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234229.
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This thesis examines the role of corporate power in the decision making and regulatory processes for major hazard sites in the UK. In particular, emphasis is placed on the role of risk analytical techniques and the associated use of technical expertise in the public inquiry process by focusing on two areas, Canvey Island (Essex) and Ellesmere Port (Cheshire), over a twenty year period. Evidence shows that the ability of public groups to intervene effectively in the decision making process varies both .spatially and temporally. In order to set this data within a theoretical framework the analysis of public inquiries in these areas takes place in the context of three competing perspectives on power, namely pluralist, elitist and Marxist. Through the use of a number of mediating concepts the three theoretical persectives on power are married to the empirical data derived for the two areas. The research shows that each of the perspectives fails to provide an adequate explanation for events. Against this background some of the models of scientific expertise within decision making are evaluated and it is suggested that such models need to be set in a wider economic and social framework than had previously been allowed for by some authors. It is argued that risk analysis can be used to support the interests of powerful groups and as a consequence its validity as an input into decision making needs to be subjected to more critical scrutiny than has previously been the case. The thesis concludes by making a number of recommendations for the various bodies involved in making judgements about major hazards.
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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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Batistella, Camila. "Intraempreendedorismo no Brasil: como executivas(os) lidam com as barreiras organizacionais para implementar suas iniciativas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12142/tde-23012019-102008/.
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Este estudo foi realizado com o objetivo de investigar a percepção de executivos (as) sêniores quanto a possibilidade de empreender dentro de uma organização contemporânea, pontuar as barreiras percebidas por eles (as) e apresentar os caminhos percorridos afim de superar tais barreiras. A percepção de executivos (as) brasileiros (as) quanto a possibilidade de empreender dentro de uma organização nem sempre é positivamente unânime. As barreiras enfrentadas, muitas vezes, os (as) fazem perecer diante deste desafio. E como os (as) bem-aventurados (as) executivos (as) superam estas barreiras é de fato uma questão que requer maior entendimento. Outros fatores que merecem luz são como o poder político e a diferenciação de gêneros dentro das organizações pode influenciar o Intraempreendedorismo. Os achados da pesquisa indicaram que: 3% dos entrevistados (as) não acreditam ser possível empreender dentro de uma organização, 17% acreditam que depende do tipo de organização e 80% acreditam ser possível. De acordo com os dados pesquisados, conclui-se que empreender numa organização depende de uma combinação entre o mindset empreendedor das pessoas, um ambiente favorável que estimule as pessoas a trazerem suas ideias para mesa, uma cultura organizacional que permita a experimentação (tolerância a erros) e que as iniciativas estejam alinhadas a estratégia corporativa. A pesquisa baseou-se no depoimento de 35 executivos (as) brasileiros (as) que tiveram destaque dentro de organizações de grande porte. Como estratégia de pesquisa foi adotada a pesquisa narrativa e para a coleta de dados foram utilizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas individuais. A interpretação dos dados se deu por meio da análise de conteúdo categorial (Bardin, 1977). É fato que o empreendedorismo está na pauta das empresas e aquelas que não vencerem os obstáculos no desafio de criar um ambiente que estimule a inovação, e não conseguir reter e atrair os profissionais adequados a essa expectativa, poderão ser insustentáveis a longo prazo e até ter sua sobrevivência ameaçada.This study was carried out with the objective of investigating the perception of senior executives as to the possibility of undertaking within a contemporary organization, to punctuate the barriers perceived by them and to present the paths covered in order to overcome such barriers. The perception of Brazilian executives as to the possibility of undertaking within an organization is not unanimous. The barriers faced often make them perish in the face of this challenge. In addition, how blessed executives overcome these barriers is in fact a question that requires further understanding. Other factors that merit light are how political power and gender differentiation within organizations can influence intrapreneurship. At the end, it was possible to find out that: 3% of respondents do not believe it is possible to undertake within an organization, 17% believe that it depends on the type of organization and 80% believe it is possible. Given the data, it is concluded that undertaking in an organization depends on a combination of the entrepreneurial mindset of the people, a favorable environment that stimulates people to bring their ideas to the table, an organizational culture that allows experimentation (tolerance to errors) and initiatives are aligned with corporate strategy. The research was based on the testimony of 35 Brazilian executives who were prominent in large organizations. As a research strategy, narrative research was adopted and individual semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Data interpretation was made through categorical content analysis (Bardin, 1977). It is a fact that entrepreneurship is on the agenda of companies and those who do not overcome obstacles in the challenge of creating an environment that stimulates innovation, and is unable to retain and attract professionals to that expectation, may be unsustainable in the end and until their survival threatened