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Canada and the World Backgrounder archives from October 2006
Anti-social behaviour.(CORPORATIONS--INTRODUCTION)
October 1, 2006... Robert Hare is a world-renowned psychiatrist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in the study of criminal behaviour. He has developed the Psychopathy Checklist, which is used by mental health specialists as a...
Earning distrust: overstated profit and revenue, understated debt, accounting fraud, bribery, theft, insider trading, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, and disregard for human rights and environmental issues all have disgraced the world of business.(CORPORATIONS--BAD BEHAVIOUR)
October 1, 2006... Some corporations do everything they can to avoid the costs involved in creating a safe workplace and installing pollution control equipment. These bad actors often move operations to countries where environmental and safety regulations are...
Earning kudos: some companies do everything and more to ensure the safety of their workers and the people in the neighbourhoods in which they operate.(CORPORATIONS--GOOD BEHAVIOUR)
October 1, 2006... Ray Anderson, founder of Interface, had an epiphany brought on by the book The Ecology of Commerce (ISBN: 0887307043) by Paul Hawken. Mr. Hawken wrote: "To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each...
Who pays the piper: given the scandals that have taken place in recent years, the relationship between the people who own corporations and those who run them is showing some strain.(CORPORATIONS--OWNERS)
October 1, 2006... Before the 20th century, many companies were small, family-owned, and managed by family members. The boss was the owner.
Then, along came public ownership. Companies sold shares in their enterprises to outsiders as a way of raising money...
Motown misery: the world's biggest car maker, General Motors, is sick--very sick; some have even mentioned the bankruptcy word.(CORPORATIONS--GM)
October 1, 2006... At its peak, General Motors sold one out of every two cars and trucks in the United States. That was in 1962. Today, the company holds just a quarter of the market and its grip on that substantial slice is slipping.
How could the giant...
Generous inclinations: while some executives are being handcuffed and taken to prison cells for lining their own pockets with great gobs of cash, others are sharing the wealth.(CORPORATIONS--PHILANTHROPY)
October 1, 2006... Foundation Center is a New York-based institute that tracks corporate giving. It estimates that almost 2,600 corporate foundations in the U.S. gave away a record $3.6 billion in 2005. That's about six percent more than the previous year. Total...
What's for dinner? The food industry displays the best and worst of corporate activity.(CORPORATIONS--FOOD)
October 1, 2006... Family farmers started to get elbowed out of the food business in the 1950s. Large corporations bought up land and brought efficiency, planning, and mechanization on a grand scale to food production. Corporate agriculture--agribusiness as it's...
Quote ... unquote.
October 1, 2006... "The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss...