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Section 1 Introduction to the World ofBusiness
Section 2 Local Small Business ActivitySection 3 Global Competition and BigBusiness Activity: TNC & MNC
Section 4 Whose Interests Should GovernBusiness Activity?
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Whose Interests Should
Govern Business Activity?
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In this section, we ask three main questions,
1. What are the positive and negative contributions of
large business to people?2. Which groups have an interest in the business and
have some power to get what they want from the
business?
3. Which of these groups should have a say in runningthe business?
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Part 1 The Impact of Business and GlobalSociety
Part 2 The Main Stakeholders of a Business
Part 3 Who Should Run Business? ThreeViews
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1.1 The Case FOR Big Business
Argument 1: It provide employments, skills
Argument 2: It generates wealth
Argument 3: Economies of scale lower the cost of living.
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Argument 4: It benefits the Host National Economys
Balance of Payments
Argument 5: Financial capability in conducted longterm R&D that benefits all mankind.
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Argument 1: Big business replaces jobs of homecountry producers, destroying communities.
Argument 2: Big business can easily avoid paying tax
through transfer pricing.
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Argument 3: Large spending on global advertising andmarketing.
Argument 4: Big business shift costs onto others.
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Argument 5: Big businesses are controlled by people whodo not have to face the consequences of their decisions.
Conclusion:big businesses have big impact on our lives. So, what rightshould people have to govern business? Who should governbusiness?
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Stakeholder means
- Any individual or organisation that has an interest
in a particular business.- There are 2 type of stakeholders
1. Private Stakeholders
2. State Stakeholders
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- All private individuals or organisations with aninterest in the business.
- There are 2 kinds of private stakeholdersa. Internal
b. External
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Who should govern the business?
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Three different views:
1. The Shareholders view
2. The Stakeholders view3. The Local Communitys view
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- Managers of a firm must only take into accountshareholders views in all decisions.
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The arguments:
1. Rewarding the risk taking of the businesss legal
owners.2. Friedman, a famous economist, says, the only
social responsibility of a business can have is to its
shareholders.
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How shareholders governed business improvesbusiness performance and benefits society
1. Clarity of goals, competitive survival, growthof national economy.
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2. Business costs, consumer prices, affordability
3. Business costs, profitability, government taxrevenues.
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Conclusion
If firms need only to care about the interests oftheir owners/shareholders, then
1. firms can survive better2. consumers get lower prices
3. governments get more tax revenue4. higher tax revenue indicates that governments
spending on public facilities would increase,thus benefiting the local community.
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- Managers of a firm will take into account all
stakeholders view in making decisions.- The believe businesses will work more
successfully if the interests of these different groupsare all taken into account.- There are even argument that formal legislation
should be set to ensure that stakeholders views are
taken into account for all businesses decisions.- However, this has been strongly opposed by
business interests in general.
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How shareholders governed business improvesbusiness performance and benefits society?
1. Better reputation, retention and recruitment.
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2. Learning from stakeholders gives a competitiveedge
- Simon Zadek, businesses can learn about future
trends in society by talking to different kinds oforganisation from the usual corporate contact.
3. Partnerships with publicly trusted stakeholders give
a competitive edge.
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- Managers of a firm will take into account localcommunitys view in making decisions.
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The Case for Community-Governed Business
- The view began in the last 20 years, when big businesses- dominate the world economy
- intimidate and compete with local businesses- dominate employment in many local communities
- disrupt local communities by closing down factories/offices
- dominate the places to spend money in local communities
- dominate the sources of finance for small business
- are powerful enough to influence local and national politiciansto make the rules in the interests of big business
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Thus, as a result, the local community havebecome dependent on the big businesses
- for their livelihood (job and income)- for what they buy (the supply)- for borrowing money (loans, credit)
Conclusion- Unless something is done about dependency, it
doesnt matter whether businesses are governed bytheir shareholders or by all stakeholders.
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Bypassing the Power of Big Business
through Community Based Business
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- Third Sector organisations expanding with 2 maintrends.
1. Social and Economic Development- Local people setting up community
business which is either not-for-profitor profit sharing.
- i.e. cooperatives
2. Political Developments- Local people began to support NGOs
rather than traditional politicalparties.
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What is the best way to make sure that the
employee will be likely to make the right
decision? .
Source: Monks, R. A. G. & Minow, N. (2008), Corporate Governance, 4thed., pg. 348
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