Raynor's Argument Analysis

Why is stock value maximization superior to profit maximization as a goal for management?

Stock value maximization is pretty significant to a company since it can be told about the company such as an reputation. Companies cannot exist by themselves. They do need a lot of money or

Over the years, firms have increasingly been maximising shareholder value. However, Steve Denning, a former director of the World Bank, author of six leadership and management books and columnist for Forbes, disagrees. His article “The Origin of the ‘World’s Dumbest Idea’: Milton Friedman”, was published on June 26, 2013 on Forbes, debates against Friedman’s argument that the social responsibility of corporations is to make money for its shareholders. The main issue here is whether the maximisation of shareholder value as the guiding principle of executives is detrimental to the corporation. Although Denning has exhibited valid points in his argument, his lack of citation, biased view on most arguments and his tone has dampened the credibility

Managers and shareholders are the utmost contributors of these conflicts, hence affecting the entire structural organization of a company, its managerial system and eventually to the company's societal responsibility. A corporation is well organized with stipulated division of responsibilities among the arms of the organizational structure, shareholders, directors, managers and corporate officers. However, conflicts between managers in most firms and shareholders have brought about agency problems. Shares and their trade have seen many companies rise to big investments. Shareholders keep the companies running

Shareholder value revolution is a notion described in the book “Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street” by Karen Ho. Shareholder value revolution is a shift of focus of corporations’ managers away from serving the interests of all the constituents of the corporation towards serving the interests solely of a shareholder class. As it was described by Karen Ho, shareholder value revolution came about as a result of the inefficiencies created by the conglomerate wave in the 1960s. These inefficiencies caused the takeover movement in the 1980s that in turn reinforced the interests of shareholders. According to Ho (2009), “In this worldview, corporation exist for the sole benefit of shareholders, and any attempt to separate shareholder interests from those of the corporation was selfish and nonsensical.” (p.

That on October 02, 2015 I, CPL Lessane, was in the process of arresting the subject, Don Sharp., Don Sharp resisted the arrest, by attempting to shut the front door in Deputies face. Deputies then immediately gain entry inside the residence and attempted to place the subject under arrest. The subject then resisted by running in the living room swinging his arms in an up and down, side to side motion while swinging his arms towards Law Enforcement. Deputies did tased the subject to gain control of the subject. This incident did occur in Hampton County and is a violation of the South Carolina Code of Laws.

I believe that the argument put forth by Daniel Engster is valid, but not sound. There is one potential flaw with P5, and one with the derivation of P4 from P1-3.

The reporter stated on 12/05/15 the victim was brought to the emergency room and diagnosed with pneumonia. According to the reporter, Braxtyn’s condition is serious but it’s unknown if it’s life threatening. Ms. Donaldson stated South Central is unable to provide Braxtyn with the care he needs so he’s being transported by ground to UMC in Jackson, MS. At this time er doctor’s have expressed concerns about his mother accompanying him to UMC. Per the reporter, Ms. Williams has not been compliant with the medical needs the child is having at this time. The reporter stated Braxtyn requires an oxygen mask but his mother refuses to keep the mask to his face. The reporter stated Essences continues to leave the room and Braxtyn unattended, she’s not

He explains that all persons and environments require resources from the company impacting them, thus justifying that the community, employees, and customers should receive a share of business resources in the reader’s mind. Also, he summarizes an opposing view that “caring about customers and employees is good business” to get readers to be more willing to accept that corporations should fulfill social responsibilities, not just the individual. To address critics of his argument, maybe thinking that 100% of profits should go back into the community, he says that he believes investors do deserve some profits, but giving 0% to society is too little. The foot-in-the-door phenomenon explains his use common ground here, which gets readers to think or act selflessly a little bit to get them more accepting of bigger

In document 1, George Kennan arguments are that the USRR sees capitalism as an enemy, therefore, it cannot coexist with the rest of the world. He states that the Soviets want to dominate the world. as a result, he proposed a policy of containment where the United States and its allies should find ways to reduce the spread of communism around the world.

In the article “When booze was banned but pot was not: what can today’s anti prohibitionists learn from their predecessors?” that was printed in February, 2011 edition of Reason, Jacob Sullum talks about the book “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.” The author gives the background of prohibition and writes a lot about what Daniel Okrent wrote about in his book. The author transitioned from prohibition to drugs smoothly and it all went together.

Although convincing the audience that the rhetor is intelligent does not mean that they can be fully trusted. An essential part of establishing ethos is assessing the rhetor’s ethical appeal. This approach appeals to the audience’s ethical judgment, this can be in the form of a passionate delivery or even a simple claim that matter is unjust (Jasinski, 2001). The rhetor fails to provide any limitations or alternative evidence to the example studies given. There was a lack of mutual ground for both sides of the argument, even though this was an advantage in persuading, the improper approach caused questionable trust in the rhetor’s work. Additionally, the rhetor establishes credibility by the publication of the artifact. This video was published

Robertson’s article is in response to a research question centring around the implications and significance of temporary migrants in urban Australia. Robertson focuses specifically on student and tourist workers as temporary migrants and their role and social position in society. In this piece, I will be critically analysing the writer’s argument, especially in terms of her use of supporting claims, evidence and assumptions. Robertson argues it is the concept of time that determines temporary migrants as different from urban locals, permanent migrants and even, from each other. This construct of time sometimes works in conjunction with ethnicity and culture to force these migrants into varied, and yet similar, social standings within Australian

The environment of a seminar-based college classroom has a lot to do with student’s personal

In the film The Corporation it shows many examples of corporation taking advantages of various things as if it was psychopath destroying everything in its path. The Corporation we can see corporations building up countries by creating sweatshops, but once the communities becomes more stable and higher wages are being demanded, corporations than can leave the country to find poorer and a cheaper workforce. This creates a devastating effect to the workers increasing unemployment and more poverty. Not only are corporations creating poverty, but they are causing pollution in the air and water. Even administration or ceo are not fully aware of all the actions that are being taking place. In every corporations their are good apples, but an overwhelming

Nevertheless if companies operate in weak markets and fail to create growth and profit the concept of maximization of shareholder wealth is also an opportunity for self-regulation and security against threats for a company. This approach is in particular useful for safeguarding against difficulties arising from wrong or misguided leadership within a corporation. Shareholders of a company have the strongest interest in a company’s success because they often invest a lot of capital in the business and require revenues for their deposit (Moore, 2002). As a matter of fact, they become more