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ISBN. 0-060-56610-8. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras . It outlines the results of a six-year research project exploring what leads to enduringly great companies. The first edition of the book was published on October 26, 1994 by HarperBusiness.
Creating shared value ( CSV) is a business concept first introduced in a 2006 Harvard Business Review article, Strategy & Society: The Link between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility. [1] The concept was further expanded in the January 2011 follow-up piece entitled Creating Shared Value: Redefining Capitalism and the Role ...
Corporate behaviour. Corporate behaviour is the actions of a company or group who are acting as a single body. It defines the company's ethical strategies and describes the image of the company. [1] Studies on corporate behaviour show the link between corporate communication and the formation of its identity. [2]
Corporate social responsibility. Employees of a leasing firm taking time off their regular jobs to build a house for Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit that builds homes for needy families using volunteers. Corporate social responsibility ( CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation [ 1] which ...
Portrait of Milton Friedman. The Friedman doctrine, also called shareholder theory, is a normativetheory of business ethicsadvanced by economist Milton Friedmanwhich holds that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.[1] This shareholder primacyapproach views shareholders as the economic engine of the organization and ...
McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, McKinsey is the oldest and largest of the "MBB" management consultancies (MBB).
In the US, corporate culture can legally be found to be a cause of injuries and a reason for fining companies, such as when the US Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration levied a fine of more than US$10.8 million on Performance Coal Co. following the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in April 2010. This was the largest fine in ...
t. e. A core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. [ 1] It can be defined as "a harmonized combination of multiple resources and skills that distinguish a firm in the marketplace" and therefore are the foundation of companies' competitiveness. [ 2] Core competencies fulfill three criteria: [ 1]