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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"corporate power"”.
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The Business of Power: Canadian Multinationals in the Postwar Era
… political economy. Does this imply that ‘corporate power’ is a meaningful concept in the Canadian context? What role has globalization played in restructuring the corporate sector? Are large firms controlled by salary-oriented managers or profit-seeking proprietors? Do mergers and …
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The ownership and control architecture of South Africa's state-owned companies and its impact on corporate governance
… (SOCs) to establish how the division of corporate power between the boards of directors and shareholder-representatives and the exercise of corporate power by these organs impact corporate governance. The thesis makes several claims. First, it argues that the architecture of ownership and …
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Climate Responsibility : The Instrumental Rationales of Private Oil Companies
… the climate responsibility, a sub-category of corporate social responsibility (CSR), of two oil companies, ExxonMobil and Shell. The study is a comparative case study of the climate responsibilities of two private oil companies, that makes use of academic literature and recent primary sources …
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Shattered windows: The story of Genora Johnson Dollinger, Eva Stone, and the women of Michigan
… inspiring women across Michigan to challenge corporate power and defend workers’ rights. Following Dollinger’s example, Eva Stone led protests against rising meat prices, further uniting women in economic activism. This work examines the unique contributions of these women, situating their …
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Corporate actions and the empowerment of non-shareholder constituencies
Corporate law developments concerning the empowerment of non-shareholder constituencies in Anglo-American jurisdictions of the United States of America and the United Kingdom since the 1980s have been of very limited utility. Available literature and legal authorities in both those jurisdictions …
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Unanimous Shareholder Agreements
… agreement is a feature of most Canadian corporate statutes that allows the shareholders to, by creating an agreement meeting the necessary criteria, restrict the powers of the directors to manage the business and affairs of the corporation. One possible justification for this is the …
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Governing Corporations: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Expanding Role of Business in Society
… in society and the recent development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, in order to form a greater understanding of the changing nature of contemporary capitalism and the potential for new forms of corporate power. By analyzing the growth of the modern corporation and the …
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Serving the empire: P&O, design, identity and representation (1837-1969)
… have not yet focused on the role of everyday corporate art and design in Victorian maritime empire, the persistence of maritime empire in twentieth century art and design, or the impact of decolonisation on Britain’s maritime identity and culture after 1949. Drawing on P&O’s business archive …
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The problem with alliances for the anti-fracking movement on the island of Ireland
… the current ‘environmental movement’ driven by powerful elites; multinationals, the state and state actors, and official ‘environmentalism’. With these one-time allies now largely absent, combined with the growing threat of globalisation which ‘synergises’ power at the top to work against social …
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… economy. It reveals how Didi’s pursuit of corporate power takes shape in China’s key economic and social transformations: economic restructuring, migrant labor surplus, favorable policy environments for the digital economy, and technology worship. Through this case, this project aims to …
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The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Rights and Activism in 20th Century United States
… and Exchange Commission to expand their role in corporate governance. These shareholders challenged managerial dominance, promoting shareholders as a source of democratic power and legitimacy. Individual shareholders were later joined by social activists and then social institutional shareholders …
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The (family) firm : representation and power in the British royal family
… culture in producing consent for monarchical power. It does this through a close analysis of a range of media texts, from newspapers, magazines, books, portraiture and paintings, photographs, films, television productions, radio shows, websites, social media outputs, cartoons, political …
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Relatability: the hidden force behind Black African youth employment disadvantage
… study sought to engage with employers from corporates in the formal sector, employer federation representatives, youth work-readiness intermediary representatives and finally, unemployed Black African graduates and matriculants, with the aim of uncovering employer preferences, behaviours and …
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
… human rights law can be used to challenge corporate power. The thesis is an empirically based inquiry into the perspectives of judges from the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights on the potential for human rights law to respond to corporate harms. The thesis seeks to examine …
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Denial and acknowledgement in CSR reporting discourse: a BHR perspective on corporate harm-related rhetoric
The impact of corporate harm within society is wide-ranging and egregious, supported by considerable corporate power, which stems partly from corporate rhetoric. This project develops and applies a novel means of analysing the discourse of powerful actors: specifically the harm-related discourse of …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… education is “the great leveler”—one of the most powerful tools to alleviate poverty and inequality in American society—is only partially correct. Also necessary is a broad, federal and state set of public policy interventions that aim to bolster funding for public higher education institutions to …
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The Chaco connection: Bonito style architecture in outlier communities
… was designed to assess whether network or corporate power strategies were more likely in outlier communities. Bonito style architecture would best lend itself to communal ritual endemic to many corporate situations. Stein and Lekson's "ritual landscape" idea is the existing model with the …
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3D Micromachined Passive Components and Active Circuit Integration for Millimeter-wave Radar Applications
… comparator IC, and a series of V- and W-band corporate combining structures for use in transmitter power combining applications. The 94 GHz cavity-backed antennas based on a rectangular coaxial feeding network have been designed, fabricated, and tested. 13 dB gain for a 2 x 2 array, as well as …
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