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Journal of Business Ethics (2008) 82:851–864 DOI 10.1007/s10551-007-9597-8 Ó Springer 2007 A Virtue-Ethics Analysis of Supply Chain Matthew J. Drake John Teepen Schlachter Collaboration ABSTRACT. Technological advancements in information systems over the past few decades have enabled firms to work with the major suppliers and customers in their supply chain in order to improve the performance of the entire channel. Tremendous benefits for all parties can be realized by sharing information

The document under-study consists of an excerpt taken from the novel entitled The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is the first chapter of the novel. The text can be divided into 3 parts: in the two first paragraphs, the narrator remembers that she -with her inmates- has once been sleeping in a gymnasium in which she had a lot of memories: she remembers all the activities that had once been hold there but something had already changed at the moment when they were

2009 Fact Sheet The New Kraft Foods at a Glance/2009 Consumer Sector Data Pro Forma Net Revenues in Billions* Percentage of Pro Forma Net Revenues* Confectionery $ $ 13.7 10.4 8.3 6.8 4.8 4.1 29 17 14 % Snacks 22% % % Beverages $ Cheese $ $ $ $ Convenient Meals 10% 8 % Grocery Total 48.1 More than half of our business is outside North America.* Confectionery 29% Developing Markets 26% North America 49% Europe 25% Confectionery

a long time, the debate on the legalisation of gestational surrogacy has never been so topical : with the 2004 law on bioethics to be revised this year, supporters and detractors of surrogate mothers have been making their voices heard for the last month. Carrying someone else's baby is a practice as old as the world itself. But for the last twenty years or so, the techniques of in-vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination have made possible gestational surrogacy, the act of carrying a child

cette scène, c’est la médiocrité de l’« American way of life » et plus généralement de la société de consommation occidentale qui est soulignée, dressant face à chacun de nous un miroir. Le consommateur apparaît comme un drogué ou un zombie errant dans les rayons d’un supermarché, seul. La consommation de masse, qui se traduit par l’achat par tout le monde des mêmes choses au même endroit (et souvent au même moment : fin d’après-midi, week-end), nous prive de notre liberté (alors même que nous croyons

discuss about the strenghts of Microsoft. As we said, this company is one of the most powerfull firm in the world. Microsoft owns 90% of the market share of this sector. The company is also in a situation of near-monopoly, because Microsft doesn't have any really competitors. Apple, which holds the second place in terms of market share, owns just approximately 9%. This high market share allowed Microsoft to invest in research, and develop some new technologies. The image of the compagny is also

[pic] University of Incheon 12-1 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea 406-840 “The Leadership of the European Union and its policies to manage the financial crisis” Content The World Economic and financial Crisis 2 Definition 2 Origins 2 The progress and the consequences of the global economic crisis 5 Some Important Events of 2008 7 First reaction and Stimulus plan 8 The Leadership of the European Union and its policies to manage the crisis 10 March

de graad Grootmeester-Wijnproever van het Nederlands Wijngilde Pieter EIJKHOFF draft; 2000.10.15 II Fig. 1 (Title page): The Chinese character 'jiu' with the general connotation 'wine' on a wooden Japanese sake cup. The left part of the character, three strokes, indicates 'liquid', the right hand part indicates a wine vessel. (from: Von Siebold House, Leyden, The Netherlands) CIP-gegevens Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag. Eijkhoff, P. (Pieter) Wine in China; its history and contemporary

development, where the new social formation emerged in its purest and earliest form. Marx noted that in the early dissolution of the preceding medieval' property system 'England [was] in this respect the model country for the other continental countries' (Marx, 1973: 277). It was, as Brenner puts it 'classically in England' that we have 'the rise of the three- tiered relation of land lord/ capitalist tenant/ free wage labour, around which Marx developed much of his theory of capitalist development

Tocqueville Friday, 31st May 2010 In 1789, the French Revolution was influenced by three key-notions: Liberty, equality, fraternity and in 1792, the first French Republic was proclaimed. Forty years later, Alexis de Tocqueville examined the democracy in America in comparison to that of France with an eye towards the historical development of each country. His interest in the democracy in America was led by the notion of equality of rights among equality of conditions. In my opinion, it is difficult