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A shadowy negotiation involving dams and its fiscal and legal implications: a Portuguese case study

Costa Dias, Eva; Pinho, Micaela; Preto, Diana - In: Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 23 (2024) 2/3, pp. 117-128

Purpose This paper aims to explore the intricate and controversial sale of six hydroelectric dams in the Douro hydrographic basin by Energias de Portugal (EDP), a prominent Portuguese energy company, to a French Consortium – ENGIE. The transaction, completed at the end of 2020, has sparked...

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A reconsideration of Jack Welch's managerial legacy

Rice, John; Martin, Nigel; Raziq, Muhammad Mustafa; … - In: EuroMed Journal of Business 19 (2023) 4, pp. 1219-1230

governance, financialization and human resource management. Originality/value This is a timely reconsideration of the Jack Welch …

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The case of CSR and irresponsible management practices

Tyagi, Ruchi K.; Vasiljevienė, Nijolė - In: Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 23 (2013) 4/5, pp. 372-383

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the government, Lelija management and society realized the fact that being a global organization unethical labor practices will reflect badly on human resources management, the company, and the reputation of the country as a whole....

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Globalisation’s assault on the labour market: a German perspective

Bloch, Brian - In: European Business Review 98 (1998) 1, pp. 13-24

In the 1980s, globalisation was much vaunted as offering the Western world a dazzling new array of business … Marx’s predictions about capitalism are eventuating in a process by which firms become ever more profitable, but at a cost …

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Suriya Coffins: traditions become market opportunities

Walsh, John - In: Society and Business Review 6 (2011) 2, pp. 168-175

– Globalization means increasing amounts of the sphere of traditional culture enter the world of commerce and this can lead to a …

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Social responsibility is free?

Peters, John - In: The TQM Magazine 9 (1997) 1, pp. 4-5

Features responses to a piece by the Editor on the “Ethics of capitalism”. Views include the point that … irresponsibility is not a characteristic of capitalism although it is a characteristic of some people. Also notes some of the moves …

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Globalization of capitalism, agriculture and the negation of nation states

Maitra, Priyatosh - In: International Journal of Social Economics 24 (1997) 1/2/3, pp. 237-254

down the path and pattern of modern economic growth in the Third World. Industrial capitalism emerged historically in the … and Japan and then to the rest of the world. In this process, capitalism has released and developed the world’s productive … resources. As a consequence, the world is becoming richer in capital accumulation and material goods but, paradoxically, poorer …

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Regulation in the connected world

Williams, Paul; Whitton, Andrew - In: Balance Sheet 8 (2000) 3, pp. 37-39

Reports on e‐business and its boom in the financial sector and the criteria required to meet rules laid down by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Presents FSA requirements as follows, regarding “operating” in the UK: targeting UK residents; head office/egistered office located in the...

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Economic sustainability of ground mounted photovoltaic systems: an Italian case study

Campisi, Domenico; Morea, Donato; Farinelli, Elisa - In: International Journal of Energy Sector Management 9 (2015) 2, pp. 156-175

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the expected cost of a large-sized photovoltaic (PV) system (= 1 MW) in reaching grid parity, not taking into account any type of government incentives (now quite uncommon in industrialized countries). A PV system located in Southern Italy...

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The dynamics of accounting change Inter‐play between new practices, routines, institutions, power and politics

Burns, John - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 13 (2000) 5, pp. 566-596

This paper explores accounting change in the product development department of a small UK chemicals manufacturer. An institutional framework of accounting and a framework of power mobilisation help tease out the dynamics of the processes of change. The case highlights power over resources,...

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