Stock land is one of Australia’s leading diversified property groups, developing and managing a large portfolio of residential community, apartment, retirement living, retail, office and industrial assets. Their portfolio consists of many retail property, offices, industrial and residential appartments.They have provided a solid over the years and have worked on their core property strengths and refined their strategic approach after their downturn. In residential communities they have achieved record lot settlement and performed well with high occupancy with established villages and have high demand in new developments for retirement living .
Over the years their approach to sustainability has also evolved and they sought to understand and respond to interest of people, community and marketplace. They have improved their stakeholder’s engagement practices and provided initiatives in response to their environmental impacts. They continue to strengthen their environmental performance and with help with sustainability advisors and practical tools,it allows them to create and operate eco
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In another word, an entity is bound by the social contract in which the firm have to perform various socially desired actions in order for the continuous of businesses.
Given that the potential costs associated with operations deemed to be outside the terms of the ‘social contract’, Stockland will take various actions to ensure their operations are perceived to be legitimate. Therefore, organizations provide such disclosure within the annual report to legitimate the existence of the corporation.
There are sufficient information provided by Stockland company in the sustainability report, which involve with governance, supply chain, environment, people, communities and
When foreign buyers empty purchase their properties, there is no money being spent in the community and little money being put back into the area’s economy. When foreign investors purchase property in Ontario, there is no concern about the province’s population or economy. They just have concerns about their personal investment and gain. Foreign investors’ main concerns are their return on their investment, not on the province’s prosperity. In addition, with foreign buyers and empty buying comes the lack of opportunity and execution of infill.
The document Yazoo Land Fraud is by Georgia R. Lamplugh. It was created in Atlanta on September 12, 2002. The Yazoo-Fraud displayed Georgia as a poor colony trying to get a claim. The Yazoo-Fraud was to transfer 35 million acres for 500,000 for four companies. According to Bartley, Yazoo fraud also contributed to sealing the fate of Georgia population.
In this paper, I am going to discuss and explain my opinions on why company Q is or is not socially responsible. Company Q recently closed a couple of stores in high crime areas. Company Q also started offering very limited health conscious and organic products. The local food bank has contacted Company Q requesting day old food for donations. Company Q has declined the donation request due to possible fraud by its employees and has started throwing the food away.
This day and age, change has become the new norm that shapes and develops the business world and global economy. A rising topic that has shepherd the direction of innovation is climate change and environmental awareness. The sustainability of a company encompasses their ability to manage social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities. This concept is important for managers and to understand and implement because of government regulations and potential cost efficiency. In Oregon, there are numerous companies that express the importance of being sustainable.
The Farmers' Grange was an important American movement in the late 19th century, according to Charles Postel's book. As mentioned on page 15 of the book, “this… group invented a new kind of association for America’s farmers (Postel 15). The Farmers' Grange was initially founded as a fraternal organization with the primary goal of enhancing the social and economic well-being of farmers and their families, but it quickly evolved into a potent political force. Fighting against railroad monopoly practices that set transportation and shipping costs in rural regions was one of the objectives of the Farmers' Grange. These high rates put farmers at a disadvantage, reducing their profitability and making it challenging for them to compete with bigger
Post by Day 3, 1 to 2 paragraphs that address the following: Explain the meaning of the word or phrase in the described cultural context. Briefly describe the cultural context of the family, group, or community that uses the word or phrase. Explain the connection between the meaning and the culture. My phrase is "bought the farm."
The opportunities in the real estate sector was also why Canadian companies balanced their investments between stocks, bonds, and loans on real
“The vision of a huge fertile garden extending from the Appalachians to the Pacific Ocean had inspired Americans since the early days of the republic” (Out of Many - A History of the American People, pg. 622). Since its beginning, the American ways of farming had always been gradually evolving, but in the time between 1865 and 1900, it transformed like never before. The American tradition of agriculture would experience dramatic changes, as the growth of production and agribusiness would ensue from revolutions in technology, massive increase in population, and alterations in government policies. A major factor in changing the way of agriculture was the new technology being developed in farming and transportation.
In old days, agriculture or other primary industries were the main pillar of Michigan state’s economy. “Most Native American settlements in the Great Lakes region were along river valleys or near the shoreline of the Great Lakes, and most of the population located in the southern half of the Lower Peninsula. Tribal settlements were not permanent, with groups moving to new locations every few years. Although agriculture was limited by soil conditions and dense forest, the Native Americans of this region did cultivate crops. Corn, beans, and squash were grown and wild apples, berries, nuts, game, fish, honey, and wild rice provided other sources of food.
Legitimacy theory is a “positive theory” that asserts that businesses are bound by the implicit “social contract” that the corporation agrees to perform that are specifically relating to social and environmental issues (Rankin, et al. 2012, 142). To remain congruent with societal values in which it operates, a corporation can address attributes that relate to this theory through voluntary social and environmental disclosures made on platforms like its annual report (Coebergh 2011, 65). Virgin Australia has various groups of important stakeholders who can affect or is affected by both the actions and activities of the corporation (Laasch and Conaway 2014, 97). They are namely, guests, employees, investor groups and shareholders, unions, non-government
Defending the Homestead Many of the survival websites, blogs, and forums spend a lot of time talking about firearms. What's the best one, how many you need and types of ammunition. No one can agree, because everyone has a personal preference.
Sharecropping is when a landowner allows somebody to use their land in return for a share of the crops grown on the land. It was most common in the South after the Civil War. The freed slaves chose to be share croppers because farming was the only thing that they knew how to do. Instead of getting wages for working an owner’s land, most freed slaves preferred to rent land for a fixed payment, because they were afraid that they would still have to be told what to do. In the first years after the Civil War, most black people in rural areas of the South were left without land and forced to work as laborers on white-owned farms and plantations so they could earn a living.
Chapter 1: PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 1.1 WHAT IS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT? Property Management is the operation, control and oversight of a residential, commercial and/or industrial property. The property manager acts on behalf of the owner to preserve the value of the property owned. In return for fee or a percentage of the rent brought in from the property, the property manager provides services to the owner for different types of properties including residential and vacation properties, commercial retail spaces and industrial warehouses.
The consumer (if buying real estate) has little option to find similar property (due to size, location, land etc). According to Porter’s five, this is an attractive industry. In this positive-sum environment, competitors do not erode profits as they work together to increase the value of their land.
Making investment in real estate is one of the most profitable money making opportunities. However, many investors make certain mistakes while investing in real estates. For example, many new investors approach this kind of investment with the mentality of becoming rich as fast as possible. Due to this wrong mindset, they often lose a substantial amount. Even experienced investors hire mentors or coaches to avoid deadly real estate investment mistake.