The Corporation

1. Corporations are juristic entities. According to the Canada Business Corporations Act Section 15 (1), “A corporation has the capacity…the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person. Soloman v. Soloman was a landmark case in the establishment of company law. Through this case, the emergence of a new legal identity, a separate legal personhood for the incorporated company was developed. This case was the first of its kind that saw the corporation as a separate legal identity. 2.…

you believe corporations should have. Explain your answer. The corporation have the responsibility to make our planet a better place to live in, because the massive productions and innovation of the big corporations has sometimes negative outcomes on our planet, the environment, and our community as well. With the advance of technology, lots of their products have negative effects on the environment, and the planet in general. I think that the social responsibility of the corporation is a reward…

the right choice when intervening in someone else’s culture? I’m not sure if there’s really an answer that is absolutely correct, at least without harming someone in some way. For example, when changing the working conditions at a factory, a corporation might have a better image, but the workers might be somehow in a worse situation than before. Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel discuss in their book, More Than Good Intentions, they challenge the idea that having “good intentions” when trying to…

By engaging in misleading CSR practices, companies can obviate the need for government regulation. Several corporations tend to engage in unethical behavior such as child labor, polluting the environment, or exploiting third world countries. Because of the increasing amount of socially aware consumers, companies can no longer partake in such nefarious activity. A variety of corporations would rather continue the dirty work they are doing because it is cheaper and more beneficial for their…

Pruitt’s calendar for the first months of his directorship, revealing his determination to hand the EPA over to the very corporations it is intended to rein in. The schedule revealed that the director has held almost no meetings with environmental activists or public health advocates, while chalking his schedule full of meetings with top executives and lobbyists from the corporations he is supposed to be…

partnership risk losing their limited liability status. (Prescott, Madden, & Foster, 2010). Finally the Master limited partnership (MLP), is little different they can be referred to as publicly traded partnership; they are owned and ran like a corporation however most of the time taxed like a partnership. The disadvantages of a partnership besides the ones mentioned are unlimited liability, normally when you have more than one person running a business you will run into management disagreements.…

corporations should still be liable for the low wages and abuses that occur abroad, whether or not they are intentional. Deavers is an example of an individual who is one of the reasons why some companies, like Walmart, fail to assume corporate responsibility…

crime is classified is by determining the destructive action of these corporations such as corporate violence, corruption, stealing, and deception within the organizations (Friedrichs, 2010, p. 64). Another way corporate crime can be classified is by highlighting the size of the corporate entities. “For example, crimes of transnational corporations; crimes of major domestic corporations; crime of small, locally based corporations; or crimes of incorporated individual enterprises” (Friedrichs,…

simply having the chance to do so. Those who deprive citizens of their chances are corporations that possess “…control over material things” (Foner 167) inhibit…

The S-corporation is subject to single-level taxation, much like a partnership. Stacey’s earnings would be accounted for at the corporate level, but is taxed only at the shareholder level. The C-corporation is subject to double taxation. Stacey’s earnings would be taxed first at the corporate level when earned and then again at the shareholder level when…