Last year, two Australian companies (BHP and Brambles) used a dual-listed company (DLC) structure to facilitate their international expansion. They joined CRA, which had entered into a similar arrangement with RTZ to form Rio Tinto in the mid 1990s. DLC structures remain quite unusual in the international context, with only a few in existence in the major countries today. They involve a company...

When a great profession and the forces of capitalism interact, drama is likely to result. This has certainly been the case where the profession of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry are concerned. On display in the relationship between doctors and drug companies are the grandeur and weaknesses of the medical profession — its noble aspirations and its continuing inability to fulfill them. ...

Considering the enormous harm tobacco products cause among their most loyal consumers, it is astounding and repugnant that tobacco product manufacturers continue to operate as fabulously profitable enterprises. These companies have used layer upon layer of defense and counter-offense to protect profits from effective public health measures for more than a generation (1 -3). Slowly, however, pro...

1 Abstract This paper builds on the author's earlier work (Kelly, 2005a, Kelly, 2005b) by adding two more business strategy patterns that describe common strategies used by technology companies; specifically software companies but the strategies should be extensible to other technology sectors. These patterns are:

The global economic recession has caused a reduced volume of orders, market saturation and low price competition pressure, so it is the right time for reorganization and optimization of companies and not for dismissal of employees. By dismissing employees the company loses good staff, employees accustomed to the work in their company, the moral of workers decreases and the reputation of the com...

network marketing phenomenon in which mendacious mediators are eliminated, basically is a useful matter. but the companies so-called pyramidal schemes misuse this title. in this companies there isn’t any production, consumable goods and useful work and they just constitute the pyramids in which the money belongs to persons in lower level go into the pocket of company and few people who are in t...