Circuit City's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy,
2013
University of Tennessee College of Law
Circuit City's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Jeff Smith, Peyton Hairston
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
Circuit City Stores, Inc. sold consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software, and appliances in the growing consumer electronics market.[1] Circuit City was founded by Samuel S. Wurtzel in 1949 under the name Wards Company. The store named “Wards” was an acronym of Wurtzel’s family name’s: “W” for Wurtzel, “A” for his son Alan, “R” for his wife Ruth, “D” for his son David, and “S” for his own name.[2] Circuit City was the first electronics superstore and was the nation’s second largest retailer of consumer electronics as recently as 2004.[3] Circuit City began the superstore concept for …
A Blockbuster Failure: How An Outdated Business Model Destroyed A Giant,
2013
University of Tennessee College of Law
A Blockbuster Failure: How An Outdated Business Model Destroyed A Giant, Todd Davis, John Higgins
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
The rise of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s rapidly created new markets. Companies like Apple seized on the ability to distribute music online for a lower price than independent record stores, or even large-scale ones like Tower Records could afford, driving record stores to near-extinction.[1] A similar fate has fallen upon the video rental stores. Giants Movie Gallery and Blockbuster, driven by physical rental stores, began struggling to compete with streaming and mailing platforms. Both were driven into bankruptcy because they failed to adapt quickly enough. A series of poor choices by Blockbuster, including passing on the …
The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs,
2013
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs, Christopher Schwab
Honors Theses and Capstones
A.R. (Venky) Venkatachalam, Ph.D. (Associate Dean of Academic Programs & Professor of Information Systems) and I believe that the steps to insure future entrepreneurial success have not been taken; therefore my intention is to provide quality insight regarding the importance of embracing our next generation of entrepreneurs.
Striking The Right Balance: Investor And Consumer Protection In The New Financial Marketplace: Introduction,
2013
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Striking The Right Balance: Investor And Consumer Protection In The New Financial Marketplace: Introduction, Lisa Fairfax, Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr
All Faculty Scholarship
On March 2, 2012, The George Washington University Law School's Center for Law, Economics & Finance and The George Washington Law Review jointly hosted a symposium entitled "Striking the Right Balance: Investor and Consumer Protection in the New Financial Marketplace."' The symposium focused on two principal topics. First, participants analyzed the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") on investors and consumers in three areas of federal regulation-securities markets, derivatives markets, and consumer financial products. Second, the symposium evaluated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("Sarbanes-Oxley") on its tenth anniversary and considered whether Sarbanes-Oxley's legacy might …
Introducing A Writing Skills Intervention Into An Undergraduate Financial Accounting Course,
2013
Sacred Heart University
Introducing A Writing Skills Intervention Into An Undergraduate Financial Accounting Course, Barbara M. Tarasovich, Benoit Boyer
WCBT Faculty Publications
This paper describes how integrating a research project into an undergraduate business school core accounting course provides opportunities to develop critical writing skills while reinforcing ethics as part of the business school curriculum. The paper discusses an end-to-end process from the overall goals and details of the assignment to assess student skills. After researching an ethical topic in business, students are challenged to complete a research paper examining the issue and stating and supporting their opinion and views of the issue. While writing courses or assignments are not unusual in business program, the unique approach described in this paper includes …
Evaluation Of Malaysian Retail Service Quality,
2013
university of Malaya, Malaysia
Evaluation Of Malaysian Retail Service Quality, Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Zalina Ibrahim, Linda Dana, Ahmad Faisal Mahdi, Mohamad Zaid Mohd Zin, Mohd Anuar Ramli
Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor
In retailing different requirement of service quality in product or services environment required. Some of the retail stores have lack on service quality whereas the salesperson is not well trained, unknowledgeable and rude. This study aims to evaluate the retail service quality from a supermarket in Kuching, Malaysia and sets out to determine what influence customers to shop. This research looks at the five dimensions of retail service quality: the physical aspect, reliability, personal interaction, problem solving and policy. A survey of 200 respondents was conducted and reliability test is measured to represent the dimensions whereas regression test and Pearson …
A Statistical Analysis Of Public Sector Corruption And Economic Growth,
2013
Claremont Graduate University
A Statistical Analysis Of Public Sector Corruption And Economic Growth, Kaycea Campbell
LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University
This study reports on the results of a statistical analysis in which the relationship between the independent variable of corruption, as measured by the World Bank, and the dependent variable of economic growth, as measured by percentage of GDP growth per year, was examined. The purpose of this study is to apply empirical methods to the debate on corruption and growth, in which neoclassical theory predicts that corruption retards growth but in which other models, such as Lewis growth and the Kuznets Curve, suggest that corruption may actually speed up growth in underdeveloped countries. The main finding of the study …
Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Exclude Opinions And Testimony Of Purported Experts Disclosed By Defendants (United Community Bank),
2013
Fulton County Superior Court
Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Exclude Opinions And Testimony Of Purported Experts Disclosed By Defendants (United Community Bank), John J. Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Order On Michael Macke's Motion For Attorney Fees And Expenses Of Litigation Pursuant To O.C.G.A. 9-15-14 Against Defendant Zions First National Bank (Macke_Cadillac Jack Inc. Et Al.),
2013
Superior Court Judge
Order On Michael Macke's Motion For Attorney Fees And Expenses Of Litigation Pursuant To O.C.G.A. 9-15-14 Against Defendant Zions First National Bank (Macke_Cadillac Jack Inc. Et Al.), Elizabeth E. Long
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Cinco Desafíos Para El Gobierno Corporativo De Las Organizaciones Sin Fines De Lucro,
2013
ESE Business School
Cinco Desafíos Para El Gobierno Corporativo De Las Organizaciones Sin Fines De Lucro, Alfredo Enrione
Alfredo Enrione
No abstract provided.
Facilitating Successful Failures,
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Facilitating Successful Failures, Michelle M. Harner, Jamie Marincic Griffin
Michelle M. Harner
Approximately 80,000 businesses fail each year in the United States. This article presents an original empirical study of over 400 business restructuring professionals focused on a critical, arguably contributing factor to these failures—the conduct of boards of directors and management. Anecdotal evidence suggests that management of distressed companies often bury their heads in the sand until it is too late to remedy the companies’ problems, a phenomenon commonly called “ostrich syndrome.” The data confirm this behavior, show a prevalent use of loss framing, and suggest trends consistent with prospect theory. The article draws on these data and behavioral economics to …
Agenda: What The Frack? How Your Investments Can Impact The Fracking Industry,
2013
University of Colorado Law School
Agenda: What The Frack? How Your Investments Can Impact The Fracking Industry, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment. Intermountain Oil And Gas Bmp Project, Sustainable Impact Investment Advisors
What the Frack? How Your Investments Can Impact the Fracking Industry (March 13)
Sustainable Impact Investment Advisors, a professional association of investment advisors whose practices focus on sustainable and socially responsible investing, sponsored a panel conversation on hydraulic fracking. A panel of experts, including industry representatives and grass roots opponents, discussed the pros and cons of fracking. The panel provided an overview of fracking, and food for thought about whether you choose to include this industry in your investments, or influence companies to use this technology with only the utmost care.
Final Order And Judgment (Hatcher Management Holdings Llc Et Al.),
2013
Fulton County Superior Court
Final Order And Judgment (Hatcher Management Holdings Llc Et Al.), John Goger
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
The Emergence Of A Standards Market: Multiplicity Of Sustainability Standards In The Global Coffee Industry,
2013
University of Warwick
The Emergence Of A Standards Market: Multiplicity Of Sustainability Standards In The Global Coffee Industry, Juliane Reinecke, Stephan Manning, Oliver Von Hagen
Stephan Manning
The growing number of voluntary standards for governing transnational arenas is presenting standards organizations with a problem. While claiming that they are pursuing shared, overarching objectives, at the same time, they are promoting their own respective standards that are increasingly similar. By developing the notion of ‘standards markets,’ this paper examines this tension and studies how different social movement and industry-driven standards organizations compete as well as collaborate over governance in transnational arenas. Based on an in-depth case study of sustainability standards in the global coffee industry, we find that the ongoing co-existence of multiple standards is being promoted by …
National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution Of Sustainability Standards In Global Value Chains,
2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution Of Sustainability Standards In Global Value Chains, Stephan Manning, Frank Boons, Oliver Von Hagen, Juliane Reinecke
Stephan Manning
In this paper, we investigate the role of key industry and other stakeholders and their embeddedness in particular national contexts in driving the proliferation and co-evolution of sustainability standards, based on the case of the global coffee industry. We find that institutional conditions and market opportunity structures in consuming countries have been important sources of standards variation, for example in the cases of Fairtrade, UTZ Certified and the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C). In turn, supplier structures in producing countries as well as their linkages with traders and buyers targeting particular consuming countries have been key mechanisms of …
Legal Barriers And Opportunities To Developing Business Partnerships Between Fisheries And Tourism,
2013
Reeves McEwing LLP
Legal Barriers And Opportunities To Developing Business Partnerships Between Fisheries And Tourism, Scott R. Gunst Jr.
Maine Sea Grant Publications
Tourism is one of the largest contributors to Maine’s economy, contributing billions of dollars annually. The primary draw for many tourists visiting Maine is the vast outdoor recreation that Maine affords its visitors. This paper examines the legal issues regarding the possibility of commercial fishing vessels carrying passengers for hire, as well as aquaculture farms opening themselves up for visits from tourists.
Journey Of A Peace Journalist,
2013
DePaul University
Journey Of A Peace Journalist, Robert Koehler
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented October 15, 2012. 2012 Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture.
Csr: Good Intentions And Wild Dreams Are Not Enough,
2013
Singapore Management University
Csr: Good Intentions And Wild Dreams Are Not Enough, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
When Mariam Al Foudery graduated over a decade ago, the people recruiting aggressively on campus were from investment banking and management consulting firms. But that’s changed, giving rise to more opportunities in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.
Is Fair Trade A Fair Deal?,
2013
La Salle University
Is Fair Trade A Fair Deal?, Swee-Lim Chia, Marysheila Mcdonald
Explorer Café
No abstract provided.
An Examination Of Business Social Responsibility (Bsr) On The Local Environment: A Proposed Framework On The Relationship Between Bsr And Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) Performance,
2013
Universiti Utara Malaysia
An Examination Of Business Social Responsibility (Bsr) On The Local Environment: A Proposed Framework On The Relationship Between Bsr And Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) Performance, Abdullahi Hassan Gorondutse
Dr. Abdullahi Hassan Gorondutse
Business social responsibility (BSR) is receiving an increasingly significant issue for economic agents all over the world, due to a new attention to all the aspects of firm’s activities and their relationships with stakeholders. However few studies have considered the influence of BSR and organizational performances. Even if any the finding reveals inconsistencies’. Hence a mediating mechanism is suggested. This paper aims to provide a propose framework that examine the relationship between BSR and SMEs performance with mediating effect of organizational culture. Based on literature review, this paper proposes four constructs which can be used to identify the implementation at …
