We need to tell profit-maximising institutions that they can't cut corners in risk-management functions. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sector Regulation: Partnering for Success] Reference
"Privatisation exposes our economy to the short-term profit-maximising vagaries of global markets," Nzimande said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Activities should be regulated, as far as possible, by nothing more intrusive than the invisible hand of profit-maximising competition. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the VIIth International Ombudsman Institute Conference] Reference
The past three years have exposed as a fallacy the idea that the only way to run a company is as a profit-maximising, shareholder-driven plc. From Wordnik.com. [Co-operatives offer template for David Cameron's big society] Reference
"This inhuman and profit-maximising action by Standard Bank shows the poverty of Standard Bank policy on HIV/Aids and its disregard for providing adequate finance mechanisms for poor communities," the SACP said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The SACP believed that less emphasis should be placed on promoting a profit-maximising, labour-exploiting formal economy, and more emphasis on assisting households and communities to foster sustainable livelihoods, and "buttress themselves from the depredations of ... cruel market forces". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
By the same token an economic system that is dependent on high growth -- based largely on profit-maximising shareholder companies -- must be seen as outmoded. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
Sam noted the 13,000km link need not be built on profit-maximising principles such was the need for better global broadband traffic between New Zealand and elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [ZDNet Australia] Reference
The money, the fame, and the adulation are impossible for the new star to ignore, especially one that is a profit-maximising corporation beholden to the shareholders. From Wordnik.com. [MacBytes.com] Reference
Second, Islamic merchants were not just traders but rational capitalist investors who traded, invested and speculated in global capitalist activities for profit-maximising ends. From Wordnik.com. [Le Monde diplomatique - English edition] Reference
As I explore in Reinventing the Firm, businesses that are not subject to the pressure of external shareholders or private equity funds can be considered profit-making, but not profit-maximising. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
With its mania for privatisation, this agenda hollows out the core functions of the state, it sells off the remnants of a deliberating public sphere to profit-maximising financial investors, and subordinates culture and education to the interests and moods of sponsors who are dependent on market cycles. From Wordnik.com. [signandsight.com] Reference
Efficient the views of those actually making employees, non-equity financiers individual and corporate values. resource allocation facilitated by decisions will be important. (possibly the state) are likely to Critical theorists would single out the profit-maximising behaviour. dominate. values that underpin capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"These monopoly capitalists continue to structure the economy in their narrow profit-maximising interests. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"These realities are not necessarily nor primarily the consequence of government policies but of the heartless, profit-maximising capitalist-dominated economy in which we find ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Bundling is usually a profit-maximising strategy for a producer that enjoys substantial market power. From Wordnik.com. [Adrian Monck] Reference
'waterbed' effect, then are consumers of the 'free' product kidding themselves. (water bed effect refers to regulation of one of the prices of a multiproduct firm that causes one or more of its other unregulated prices to change as a result of the firm's profit-maximising behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Resonance Partnership Blog] Reference
Worse, despite its mission as a socially-oriented, rather than profit-maximising, agency. From Wordnik.com. [Malaysia independent news] Reference
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