The Corporation

regulated monopolies were responsible for the manufacture, transmission and sale of electricity and natural gas to customers. However, these monopolies were rather incompetent and unreliable in the eyes of the customers [7]. At the onset of the Corporation, Enron has made claims that it could revolutionize the energy industry, and the Internet [6]. Enron then began to advertise through the means of Wall Street, claiming that energy could be treated as a stock or a bond and be traded online. The…

Database Marketing and You As technology progresses, our consumer protection laws struggle to keep up with the new and invasive ways that companies and large corporations collect, analyze, and sell personal data extracted from the public. The NSA’s collection of data and tracking of digital activities has raised an increasing amount of concern from the public. However, many companies also utilize this unregulated type of data collection. Social media has created a new way for these companies to…

In order to discuss global digital ethical issues from a multi-national corporation perspective one need to understand what is ethics and how it is associated with the digital world. Ethics according to Frank Navran of the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) as quoted in the week one module is "the study of what we understand to be good and right behavior and how people make those judgments" (UMUC Library, 2016). Ethic is being able to understand what is acceptable as right or wrong. ZUR Institute…

It goes without saying that corporations have a huge impact on society, they define the city skylines with their high rise buildings and provide the very products we need for our everyday life. However, the fact remains that corporations exist to be a money making tool for its owners. Many corporations are run based on the theory of shareholder primacy which postulates that the management of a corporation has one duty-to maximise shareholder dividends (Hall et al., 2008). Now, there really isn’t…

advantage for Power Hour Fitness as it is a hybrid of certain features of a corporation and a partnership. As a Limited Liability Company, the three associates avoid major risks such as within a partnership where partners are responsible for all debts. Instead, losses will only be the amount the members put into the business. Additionally, the Limited Liability Company will avoid the double taxation that occurs within a corporation. Both of these advantages allow for great success of Power Hour…

responsibility and the global compact for international business relations and ethical issues. The conflict between profiteering in the private sector and the exploitation of the general public has become a major issue in global ethical standards for corporations. The Global Compact defines the ten guidelines that define the ethical premise of corporate bargaining strategies and social interaction with local populations. The problem of first world corporate exploitation of third world labor for…

Question 1 Developing an Organizational and Global Ethical Culture and the Benefits of Business Ethics Define what is meant by an organizational ethical culture. Then, identify and describe the four primary benefits of business ethics. An organizational ethical culture encompasses various sections of the company and represents how things are done internally and externally. Ethical culture for organizations also represents the ethical behavior they present as well as the relations of an ethical…

Inc. is an S corporation, which means certain criteria must be met, such as: a domestic corporation; limited number of shareholders (100 counts); ownership of individuals, trusts and estates; disallowance of partnership and “non-resident,” “alien shareholders;” offerings of “one class of stocks;” and considered an “ineligible corporation” (“S Corporations,” 2015);  Gustav and Heidi Lager are married; they are two individual shareholders and operators of Ale and Grains;  The corporation has 100…

sort of time frame with this current contractual agreement between the two parties. Having a sole proprietorship has its positives, but it would behoove him to make the changeover from sole proprietorship to something more suiting such as a corporation. A corporation is a form of business organization that owes its existence to statutes in all states that provide guidelines for its creation and…

made by Starbucks Corporation in the right direction regarding the fight to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. The strength of this article is that it takes time to use Starbucks Corporation as a control study and make comparison between the two. Using Starbucks helps the article to bring out a vivid picture of the distinction that exists between the two situations. Its weakness is that the author does not conduct any objective interview from the Wal-Mart Corporation in…