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Limitations of traditional budgeting and alternatives like beyond budgeting

Organizations have for a long time been using budget as the main tool in management control. Using budget control as the sole method of management control has several demerits. Budgets, for example, cost a lot to prepare.

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Corporate social and environmental reporting: greenwashing or legitimate practice?

Corporations have increasingly been viewed as owing a social and environmental responsibility to a wide range of stakeholders, including their employees, shareholders, the communities in which they compete as well as the larger populations they serve.

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Motivations for corporate social responsibility reporting and disclosure

Companies have presented investigations about their motivation towards voluntarily social and environmental as insolvent. This paper argues in agreement with Adam's view that the goal of CSR reporting is to promote credibility and corporate image of stakeholders operating in a particular industry.

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Walmart's corporate governance strategy for restraining managerial power

Corporate governance failure is a serious threat to the future existence of any organization. The high corporate failure rates witnessed in the first decade of the century brought to the limelight the concept of effective corporate governance, and the core principles of trust and integrity.

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Consumer price index measurement in international economic comparisons

Country comparisons serve many purposes: Economic, political, social, educational, and so on. Many countries -- and likely all of the developed countries -- conduct country comparisons that are focused on international trade and overall national economic status.

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Corporate governance failures and ethical lapses at Enron

Enron, the seventh-largest American corporation, collapsed in December 2001 in what most people refer to as the 'New Economy's first major failure'. Following its collapse, Congressional committees immediately embarked on inquiries to determine the cause(s) of its bankruptcy.

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How power struggles undermine corporate social responsibility implementation

Existing literature indicates that power increases associated with CSR yield positive benefits to stakeholders, particularly shareholders.

~10 min read

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2,771 words

Corporate social responsibility as a marketing tool versus ethical obligation

The author of this report has been asked to do a critical review of the subject that has come to be known as corporate social responsibility, or CSR for short. Rather than just doing a general literature review of the subject, there will be some specific points of analysis that will be focused on.

~14 min read

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Organizational structures: divisional, functional, and matrix models

Any company can adopt any of the organizational structures depending on the need and desires of the stakeholders. They include divisional, functional, entrepreneurial and matrix structures.

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Rational decision-making and leadership strategy in organizations

Decision making is critical to a corporation. Organizational success depends on making hundreds or even thousands of decisions every day, and those decisions need to be of the highest quality in order for the organization to thrive.

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