Stockholm University Stockholm Business School Business Ethics Seminar 2 Contextualisation Case 6 Corporate governance of professional football clubs: for profit or for glory? Shadan Abdullah(930514-6541) Per Jonsson (780827-0479) Victor Savigny (902710-P154) Pui Shan Szeto (921026-P500) Omkar Vedpathak (940126-P152) The main stakeholders of football clubs‚ their ’stake’ in the organization and legitimacy of their interests. Some European football clubs have in‚ approximately
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Honda concentrated on establishing and then expanding its assembly operations‚ while carefully probing the capabilities of domestic suppliers. Honda has established new auto manufacturing facilities in Mexico and increased exports to Central and South America . Suppliers in the car industry have very little power. In fact quite the opposite is true they are at the mercy of the manufacturer. The importance of avoiding suppliers that fix their own terms because they are the only supplier of the produce
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Supply-Chain-Strategy Recommendation Xavier Smith Western Governors University Supply-Chain-Recommendation Strategy Hand-Tool Corporation‚ hereafter referred to as the initialism‚ HTC‚ was established to take advantage of the hand-tools market‚ which consists of sales of electric drills‚ saws‚ and sanders‚ to consumers in the homebuilding and home-improvement market. These consumers will comprise both business and private end users. The corporation is seeking data to determine the optimal
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After its foundation as Lotte Confectionary in Japan in 1948‚ Lotte Group (henceforth referred to as Lotte) has grown to be among the largest companies in South Korea‚ currently ranking the 6th largest chaebol (Korean conglomerate company) based on revenues. As any other big company‚ Lotte had to start as small company and develop a strategy to grow further. The story of Lotte is partially a success story‚ however‚ there are also some controversies and challenges surrounding the group. This paper
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2013 RISK For the past decade‚ the main drivers of regional risk have been North Korea’s nuclear provocations and tensions around the status of Taiwan. These issues were well-defined‚ and risks were offset by regional commercial integration and shared economic growth. The good news is that North Korea and Taiwan no longer loom as major sources of tension. North Korea has been somewhat less provocative‚ but at least as importantly‚ cooperation among other regional actors--along with the United
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TOYOTA VS. NISSAN – A CONTRAST IN CULTURE‚ CORPORATE GOVERNANCE‚ OPERATIONAL STRATEGY‚ AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Mohamad R. Nayebpour Graduate Faculty of Business Administration Keller Graduate School of Management DeVry University 2000 West Loop South Houston‚ Texas 77027 (713) 212-3610 mnayebpour@keller.edu H H Akira Saito Visiting Research Fellow The Institute of Economic Research Chuo University Japan fujisan@tamajs.chuo-u.ac.jp H H ABSTRACT Toyota Motor Corporation and Nissan Motor Corporation
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Toyota: The Accelerator Crisis 1. Why was Toyota facing a recall crisis? Toyota could not treat this problem adequately. One of the reasons is that because the headquarter in Japan makes all critical decision in Toyota and in this case the place is far from America‚ Toyota headquarter did not notice the importance of this problem at the early stage. While NHTSA started the investigation at 2009 September‚ Toyota did not treat this problem seriously. This attitude led NHTSA to reclaim Toyota’s
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numerous strategies one can use for supply chain: Keiretsu‚ vertical integration‚ and virtual companies. These Three are by no means the only strategies‚ but ones which may be considered. First‚ the Keiretsu will be discussed. Keiretsu is a Japanese term to describe many companies that link together or around a central bank to do business. This link is often represented by each company owning a small portion of the other companies in the Keiretsu. The advantage for such an arrangement is less competition
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Operations Management‚ 11e (Heizer/Render) Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management Section 1 The Supply Chain’s Strategic Importance 1) Even though a firm may have a low cost strategy‚ supply-chain strategy can select suppliers primarily on response or differentiation. Answer: FALSE 2) The supply chain for a brewery would include raw ingredients such as hops and barley but not the manufactured goods such as bottles and cans. Answer: FALSE 3) When using the low-cost strategy for supply
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kitchens and little storage space. Even until today‚ the small mom and pop shops are higher valued by society than the mass discount retailers. Profit is not the highest priority of a shop owner but rather personal loyalty to his or her distribution keiretsu. 2. Japan as a market for Toys “R” Us Given the differences of doing business in Japan from the United States and the specific business strategy that Toys “R” Us uses in all of its worldwide markets‚ I would not consider Japan a good market
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