Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State

This article explores the various roles that alcohol played in defining the governance of East India Company fortifications and settlements in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that, much like elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and the colonial world, alcohol was absolutely crucial to political and social life, as well as a source of great revenue and profit for both the Company and individuals who worked for it. At the same time, it was a cause of immense anxiety and concern for Company government, which understood the use (and overuse) of alcohol as a principal sign of potential disorder and disobedience. Far from a contradiction, this ambivalence towards alcohol formed a foundation for a variety of regulatory instruments, from tavern licences to taxation, that were crucial to the establishment of early Company governance and a prime reflection of the Company's very own ambivalent nature as both merchant and sovereign.

Vetting of Bloomberg’s ESG Governance ISS:QualityScore [GQS]

Context Of the plethora of market navigation platforms, the Environment, Social, and Governance [ESGÓ]-platform offered by BloombergÔ Professional Services* is one of the most richly endowed, including nearly 2,000 data-fields that provide an invaluable context for better understanding the “Stakeholder-impact” of the firm’s activities. A recent amelioration of the ESG-platform is the link with Institutional Shareholder Services [ISS] that offers a taxonomy where firms are assigned to Governance-risk decile-groups based upon ISS:GovernanceQualityScores: (GQSÔ). The GQS-platform offers a data-driven approach to scoring & screening designed to help investors monitor company governance activities so as to better inform their decision-making. Study Design Clear is: Market Intel-Platforms only have one simple raison d’être: To provide a relative advantage in teasing out market winners relative to the “Squawk-On-The Street”. If this is the case, information professionals, in a best practices context, are tacitly obligated to offer vetting tests of platforms such as the GQS to service investors in need an independent and reliable evaluation to Ferret-out useful market guidance platforms. In this endeavor, we offer a vetting evaluation of a random sample of firms included in the two polar-ISS:GQS:Classifications: GQS[1] & GQS[10]]. Point of information The intent of the GQS-Vetting is not to “reverse-engineer” the results of the GQS-assignment protocol so as to arrive an “inferentially” de-coded approximation of the actual ISS:GQS-protocol. Our vetting addresses the question: Is there a logical reason to reject the belief that the set of GQS-assignment protocols are not well formed thus creating Governance-risk-groupings that have no intra-group coherence and so exhibit no inter-group differentiability. Results Initially, we used a Strawman-Vetting test followed by FPE-inferential tests using specific and sensitive Income Statement and Balance Sheet Panel-profiles from a random sample of the firms in: GQS[1] & GQS[10]. We find that the triage-focus of GQS[1] is “Revenue at the Margin” while that of GQS[10] is “Asset[Net] Management”. Also, both groups have exhibited impressive attention to managing Working Capital. Summary: The ISS:GQS-assignment protocols seem to be well-formed and capable of offering useful differentiation.

Financial difficulty of Banking management during COVID 19 in Bangladesh

Findings point out that the savings rating operations and performances of private business Banks have outperformed these of state-owned industrial banks. The mortgage disbursement techniques of state-owned industrial banks have been now no longer efficient ample to reap required recuperation target. Furthermore, it has additionally been found that the state-owned business banks are increased in all likelihood to be affected via using each and every of the contributory factors a long way larger adversely than non-public business banks. Effective use of company governance, maintaining transparency and accountability in all respect, environment friendly financial savings risk management, bettering managerial efficiency, profitable privatization, lessening political interference and adapting contemporary technological changes, would possibly also enhance the well-known personal loan trouble scenario of state-owned industrial banking region of Bangladesh. Countries throughout the worldwide are going through a risk of an outright disintegration as international supply chain is almost dismantled. Labor mobility too is impeded as human beings are locked down at their homes. Business enterprises, small and large, are each shutdown or closed for an indefinite period. Uncertainties are mounting as households and businesses are dealing with liquidity crisis. The key elements that have been enduring the credit score hassle (i.e. non-performing loans) had been reviewed rigorously. Contributory factors such as: corporate governance, savings management, financial savings regulations, and the degree of political interference had been identified. The first-rate direction of action is that Bangladesh Bank orchestrates a good-sized economic growth focused on repo price of four percentages and lending charge in the range of 5-8 percent.

Corporate governance and political connection towards the tax aggressiveness of manufacturing companies in Indonesia

Tax aggressiveness is one of the weaknesses of tax collection with the mechanism of the self-assessment system. Tax aggressiveness is an effort by a company to reduce tax fees through tax planning in which from the legal point of view is deemed as a gray area. This research aims to examine and analyze the impact of company governance as well as a political connection towards tax aggressiveness. This research was conducted on the manufacturing sector in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018. The research samples were 80 companies with 240 observations. The data of this research was analyzed by utilizing the multiple regression analysis. The research outcome revealed that the company governance did not affect tax aggressiveness, whereas political connection positively impacted the tax aggressiveness.

Family Company Governance Case

Max Meier (61), a “humane” entrepreneur, succeeded his father as a baker in Appenzell, Switzerland, in 1987, and has over the last 33 years developed the family business an internationally successful group of companies renowned for its chocolate specialties.Six months ago, he suffered a heart attack and asks you how he should confront the issues of board composition and management appointment.

British Humanitarian Political Economy and Famine in India, 1838–1842

This article explores the nature and limitations of humanitarian political economy by discussing metropolitan British responses to a major famine that took place in the Agra region of north-central India in 1837–38. This disaster played a significant role in catalyzing wider debates about the impact of East India Company governance and the place of the subcontinent within the post-emancipation British Empire. By comparing the responses of organization such as the Aborigines Protection Society and British India Society to that of proponents of the newly emergent indenture system, the paper seeks to contextualize responses to the famine in terms both of longer histories of famine in South Asia and of the specific imperial circumstances of the late 1830s. In doing so, it explores how ideas of agricultural distress in India fed into competing strategies to utilize Indian labor in the service of colonial commodity production both within India and around the empire.