Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Initially, introducing compliance functions within the financial industry had been forced by regulatory scrutiny.

The recent financial crisis has created a public outcry over top-executive pay packages and has led to calls for reform of executive pay in Europe and the US.

An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at all levels of experience and expertise This third edition of the bestselling book for nonprofit board members and professionals offers a thoroughly revised and updated resource that answers the most-commonly asked question on board governance.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations.

This book continues the discussion in the first two volumes on the challenges that organizations face in order to implement sustainability, ethics, and effective corporate governance, all of which are important elements of "e;standing out"e; from other companies.

"e;Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us.

This introductory textbook explores the key issues in global business in corporate social responsibility.

Seit einigen Jahren beschäftigt die Automatisierung beliebiger Prozesse und Prozessschritte mit der RPA-Technologie die Finanzwirtschaft.

This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually.

This book begins by analysing the various corporate governance mechanisms explored in the extant literature and determining their effectiveness in enhancing the firm value using multivariate analysis.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

This book illustrates how CSR can be used as a tool to improve corporate governance in organizations and improve the relationship between business and society.

Currently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities.

Become an extraordinary leader.

This book attempts to bridge academic knowledge and practitioner's knowledge regarding the control and coordination of subsidiaries in Japan.

Integrated reporting (IR) has emerged as an accounting change initiative and has rapidly gathered worldwide attention.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an international perspective, the goal being to share ideas and visions for a sustainable future and to provide useful guidelines for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the context of the 2030 "e;Agenda for Sustainable Development"e; released by the United Nations.

Cultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex.

This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history.

Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk deals with the highly timely topic of the Corporate Board and its relationship to risk, both in terms of its management and its creation.

The globalization of financial markets worldwide has progressively pushed toward simultaneous globalization of accounting information.

Using a range of case-studies, this book analyzes corporate governance relationships between several African countries and the international community, providing an ethical assessment of issues surrounding globalization and adherence to external governance mechanisms.

A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

"OKR im Mittelstand: Effizienz und Innovation durch klare Ziele" von James P.

This book reviews the three life-and-death crisis moments that Huawei experienced during its growth and the major transformation process triggered by these crises.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 5th International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (ICFMCF2023), held in the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, in July 2023.

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay.

This book provides a concise and pragmatic introduction to transfer pricing.

This book takes stock of where we are in the practice of central banking and considers implications arising from the ongoing crisis.

Rigorously updated textbook that balances business theory and business practice.

This volume takes a hard look at the soft practice of corporate governance.

Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.

Multinational enterprises have become a main engine of the global economy, technical advancement, and product innovation, playing a pivotal role in the world economy and the global technological revolution.

This title provides clear and readily applicable guidance to corporate board members on the involvement of boards of directors in information technology (IT) governance.

The recent financial crisis has led to a loss of trust in corporate governance and in particular on remuneration practices and the propensity for these to create excessive risk-taking - particularly in the financial sector.

The theory of symbolic management reveals a pervasive pattern of 'symbolic decoupling' - a separation between appearances and reality - at every level of the governance system.

Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization.

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This book examines the emerging trends in vanishing borders of urban local government finance due to uncertain local tax and expenditure regimes.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

A strategic, practical, cost-effective approach to fraud prevention In troubled economic times, the risk of fraud and financial crime increases.

Based on the lives of 28 well-known management academics, this book describes what it means to be an intellectual shaman.

This book addresses the increasing prominence of family-owned business groups and their potential to influence growth and development in the global economy.

It is generally accepted that climate change is happening and that steps need to be taken to alleviate this.