Canadian Business Press

The individual essay will be based on current or recent events in the world of corporate
governance. The topic for 2014 is a comparison of corporations, and will require that you use the
required readings, and that you supplement these readings with articles from the Canadian
Business Press (Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Toronto Star, Canadian Business, MacLeans).
The essay is a minimum of 5 pages in length, and a maximum of 10 pages of text, plus a
maximum of 5 pages of figures and tables, as necessary. As with all my projects the essay will
focus on recommendations with a future focus.

This assignment is a large part of the grade relative to the number of pages, so you need to bring
your best work to this project. There should be a logical flow to the paper, with no “filler” or
irrelevant material added. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence that expresses the main
idea being discussed in the paragraph, and a concluding/transition sentence that summarizes the ,
plus several

Steps

1. Your paper will compare corporations from two countries: Canada plus a comparator
country from the list of chapters in the Morck 2005 book, availabile on NBER.org on
corporate governance around the world.
2. Pick two publicly-held corporations to compare. One corporation should be in
Canada and one in your comparator country.
3. The corporations should be comparable in terms of industry and size
4. Everything in your paper must be future-focused – i.e. from January 2014 forward
five years.
5. You will need to justify your claims with logic, using the Toulmin model.
6. Introduction : Establish your Claim
a. Which publicly-held corporation is more successful? How does the country’s
system of corporate governance contribute to that success?
i. This is your claim, part 1: X Corporation is more successful than Y.
ii. This is your claim, part 2: The successful corporation is more
successful because of {a, b, c, etc.} aspects of its country’s corporate
governance system.
b. Compare the two countries sup support your claim about the features that
contribute to the success. Explain why {a, b, c} are important contributors to
X Corporatin’s success. This create a warrant and backing for your claim.
c. Discuss qualifiers, or situations that might alter {a, b, c}’s impact on
Company X.
d. Conclude
i. summarize the factors about the country that make Corporation X
more successful.
ii. discuss the implication for Canada’s system of corporate governance,
and whether Canada’s reliance on Family Controlled Firms is good
policy for the future
7. The future focus comes into the conclusions, and in that you need to look at the
current system of corporate governance.
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