NGOs to support corporate codes that improve working conditions across global supply chains.
Both shareholders and creditors have expressly said that business must actually live and breathe their corporate codes of conduct.
The best corporate codes, says Robert Solomon of the University of Texas, are those that describe the way everybody in the company already behaves and feels.
GMI, based in New York and recently merged with the Corporate Library, a governance research firm, rates the practices of more than 4, 100 companies by examining pertinent public data, including regulatory filings, company websites and news services, to see how well they follow securities regulations, stock exchange listing requirements and various corporate governance codes and principles.
Mr Loureiro believes the way forward for Portugal is to focus on simplifying its corporate and income tax codes and bringing at least part of the non-taxpaying "black economy", estimated to account for more than 20 per cent of total output, into the system.
Many young French arrivals in London say they are fleeing rigid social codes, hierarchical corporate culture and a sense of distance from the global swirl of people and ideas.
But her note on pedicures and Fridays brings up a good point: Dress codes in a corporate environment is usually clear for Monday through Thursday, but what about Casual Fridays?
There is no evidence that individual or corporate tax rates, under the tax codes of the last few decades, play significant roles in determining the value of particular long-term investments.
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Ms. Smilovic left the corporate world in 1997, just as dress codes began to relax.
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Semler has purged his firm of what he calls "corporate oppression, " including time clocks, dress codes, privileged office spaces and perks for top executives.
In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.
The IMF, World Bank and key regulatory agencies like the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) based in Basel should establish internationally agreed codes of best practices on monetary, financial and fiscal policy and corporate governance.
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