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Corporate ethics codes and competitive lobbying practices

Would it be unethical for company "X" that has just constructed a new plant with pollution-emission restrictors to lobby the government for stricter anti-pollution laws that could affect company "X's" competition by forcing the competition to spend capital on upgrades?

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Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and social Darwinism ideology

Just interest on huge scale enterprises is always a substantial return, if a man does not earn this much the business is bankrupt. Men who are extremely skilled in managing in large scale should be pain handsomely for their skill.

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Southern influence and racial segregation in African-American vernacular development

It has often been suggested that the so-called "African-American vernacular" is largely attributable to the influence of oral traditions based in sermons and prayer services of black churches.

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Differences and overlap between management and leadership

Management and leadership are both essential aspects of modern business organizations. In principle, there are fundamental differences between them, but there is also significant overlap or similarity.

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RFID technology implementation and customer adoption at Federal Express

Federal Express ("Fed-Ex") has always maintained a very specific focus on innovation as a fundamental part of the organization's corporate culture (Fed-Ex, 2011).

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Early childhood education initiatives in the E-9 countries

In Michael Levine's 2005 secondary research article on promoting early childhood education (ECE) in the E-9 countries, summaries of the reasoning behind ECE and current efforts underway are followed by recommendations for the future (Levine 2005).

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Music piracy and copyright protection in the digital age

Supporters of so-called music 'piracy' deny that downloading songs for free is any kind of piracy at all. Listening to music downloaded from the Internet is viewed as very similar to listening to music for free on the radio or copying music using a cassette tape many years ago. In the Sony Corp.

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Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau and modernist design

The Art Nouveau movement of the early twentieth century that really found its heyday in the Jazz Age, the period of glitz, glamour, and luxury that occupied the 1920s and formed a high road of optimism between World War I and the Great Depression, was considered by most practitioners and critics of…

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How physical workplace elements affect safety, productivity, and worker health

Among the most important areas of consideration within Human Resource Management is the nature of the physical working environment.

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Statistical significance in perspective-taking across five experiments

The study I chose to examine is from the field of psychology: Todd, Hanko, Galinsky, and Mussweiler (2011), "When Focusing on Differences Leads to Similar Perspectives. This study was recently published in Psychological Science, a high-impact journal in the field.

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