Investors, consumers, clients and partners care deeply when they think that companies are associated poor labour practices, as can be seen from the attention paid to concerns around Apple's association with Foxconn or companies who are perceived to not pay their fair share of taxes like the controversy in Europe over Starbucks, and most recently, McDonalds.
So do huge online corporations such as Google, Amazon and Facebook that behave perfectly legally – nothing they do is criminal – but are still perceived to be paying absurdly low amounts here.
The literature on measuring corruption suggests that corruption can be studied through the measurement of perceived corruption, as well as perceived willingness to pay bribes and bribe payments [ 43].
Clients are charged according to their perceived ability to pay, with white customers paying more than black ones.
For all the criticisms of Android's high levels of piracy and a perceived reluctance to pay for games by its users, sheer scale is turning Google's OS into a significant handheld gaming platform.
Eliminate variations in health care, e.g., due to unconscious and conscious cost considerations, reimbursements, and patient insurance coverage or perceived ability to pay. 6.
However, the non-transparent pricing policies revealed that the perceived willingness to pay varied depending on the elements of the services.
The perceived price to pay for being wrong extends well beyond the walls of our crania.
For those who are impatient or lacking substantial interest in public policy, this works to answer the need, or perceived obligation, to "pay attention" to politics.
"Many performing arts schools these days try to assess need as they audition kids and make some of their decisions based on perceived ability to pay".
