Managing Administration and Control: A Legal Framework Comparison of Australia and Netherlands for Woolworths Group's Expansion

MANAGING
ADMINISTRATION AND
CONTROL

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Administration management and control is the process or activity which involve starting
and running a business by following all the public and government rules and regulations. This
report will discuss and compare the legal framework of the Australia and Netherland country
(Debus, 2018). The present report is in the form of business proposal to the board of directors
which define the viability of expansion of Woolworths Group Company to Netherland country.
For this, various aspects of law will be discussed in this study such as contracts, employment,
intellectual property and agency. This presentation will help the board of directors of
Woolworths Group to decide whether expanding the business in Netherland is viable for the
company or not. Apart from this, it will also discuss the legal issues in more depth along with
how these issues affect the Woolworths Company’s expansion strategy. Lastly, the description
will also cover the comparison in matrix format to make it more clear and viable.
MAIN BODY
Woolworths is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores founded in 1924.
Today it is the largest super market chain with huge amount of market share and specialises in
groceries along with doing business in other products as well such as health and beauty,
household products, baby supplies, etc. The firm operates 995 stores all across the Australia
relies on 115,000 team members in all of their stores (Rutherford, 2018). The Woolworths
provide their consumers with superior quality of services, value, range and convenience. This is
one of the most innovative retailers and extremely able to understand that their consumers are
looking for simple and new ways to shop. Now the firm wants to expand their business activities,
they are going to start their functioning within the Netherland. In order to start new business
activities along with certain considerations related to legal framework, the firm have to follow
legal rules and regulations to run their business in proper and without any kind of error manner.
It has been well known concept that while starting any kind of business or run any business
organization, the firms have to follow certain rules and regulations to make their business work
in most effective ways. The laws and legislation are different in their own terms such as in
Australia they follow some other rules and regulations while on the other hand, in Netherland the
Woolworths have to follow some other rules and legislations in order to run their establishment
effectively. When entering into any contract it is important to recognise and understand the legal

system which governs the contract both in its formation and in case of even any kind of disputes.
The difference between the laws and legislations has been discussed below with the help of
matrix format which highlights the differences among them in fruitful methods:
Elements Australian Law Netherland Law
Contract Law Australian contract law are
particularly based upon the
English common law rather
than on any other codified or
ruling law. The major and
primary principle of
Australian contract law is
freedom of contract under
which all the other parties are
at independence to strike
whatever good deal they
would like to have or choose.
Under Australian contract law,
with limited exceptions, those
who are not parties to a
contract can never bound by it.
This is known as the privity
rule. By the similar kind of
token, contracts can generally
only be compulsory by parties
to the contract. Where the
third party creates a trust level,
that third party may be able to
enforce the contract. If ant
firm or corporation is
registered under the
Corporations Act 2001, its
Netherland follows the Dutch
contract law which is mainly
found in the Dutch Civil Code.
It creates an internal part of
the general law of compulsion.
Within this agreement, the two
or more parties creates in each
party a duty to do or not do
something along with the right
of performance of the other
party’s duty or a remedy for a
breach. For outside companies
such as foreigners who try to
conduct business activities in
their business transactions in
the Netherland, accessing
information about Dutch
Contract Law that can be
challenged (Hertogh, 2018).
Under the Dutch Contract
Law, the acceptance is a
declaration on the part of the
offeree addressed to the
offeror, which creates consent
of the offeree to their terms of
offer. Under this contract law,
acceptance must comply with