Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Keep shareholders happy and manage for the long term.

Long-term value creation—the board's new agenda.

Edited by Harvard Business School professor Jay W.

Daten sind das neue Gold – doch nur wer sie versteht, veredelt und gezielt nutzt, profitiert wirklich davon.

Shortlisted in the International Business Book category at the Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2025 Finalist in the Leadership - HR and Employee Development category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024 Toxic work culture is driving away 1 in 5 employees at an annual cost of US $44.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

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

Shortlisted in the International Business Book category at the Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2025 Finalist in the Leadership - HR and Employee Development category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024 Toxic work culture is driving away 1 in 5 employees at an annual cost of US $44.

Most books about corporate governance are written for a Western audience.

This book provides an extensive overview of family business-related topics such as context and uniqueness, lifecycle and ownership configurations, conflict management, corporate governance, succession challenges, internationalization, innovation, and socioemotional wealth.

Examining how the livelihoods, health, and well-being of women in Central and West Asia were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, this report assesses responses and considers how the experience can guide gender mainstreaming.

Corporate Governance Failures in Emerging Economies - Evidence from Pakistan provides detailed insights regarding corporate governance practices, legal and regulatory frameworks, drivers of corporate governance codes, levels of compliance and various corporate governance mechanisms in an emerging market context.

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture demonstrates that a new frontier for corporate social responsibility is possible in theory and practice.

Recommended textbook for the Open University's postgraduate information security course and the recommended text for all IBITGQ ISO 27001 coursesIn this updated edition, renowned ISO 27001/27002 experts Alan Calder and Steve Watkins:Discuss the ISO 27001/27002:2022 updates;Provide guidance on how to establish a strong IT governance system and an ISMS (information security management system) that complies with ISO 27001 and ISO 27002;Highlight why data protection and information security are vital in our ever-changing online and physical environments;Reflect on changes to international legislation, e.

El mundo acaba de vivir una amenaza a la vida humana sin precedentes con un impacto profundo en todos los comportamientos.

The book explores how the influence by the corporate sector in the economic interactions globally leads to the international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes.

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

While emerging market economies do not have a mature market structure yet, there is a need for research on corporate governance practices in these economies from different perspectives, including corporate social responsibility.

There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition.

This volume is a compilation of important papers relating to the financial, governance and political economy structures of the region, using a variety of methods and topics.

The governance of companies is of importance to developing countries due to the link between effective corporate governance and economic development.

This book explains how corporate social responsibility is linked to long-term sustainability of an economy and that the activities of an organization should not be only for its self-interest, but must also be honed for the benefit of common good.

The book highlights emerging topics in key areas of corporate governance with special emphasis on traditionally unexplored issues.

This book continues the discussion 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.

This book contains compilation of emerging discourses on responsible leadership for sustainability in uncertain times.

This unique volume expounds on the nature of white-collar crime and examines its relationship with corporate social responsibility, governance and corporate reputation.

This book sets the stage of the evolution of corporate governance, laws and regulations, other forms of governance, and the interaction between data governance and other corporate governance sub-disciplines.

This book continues the discussion on recent developments relating to ethical and sustainable issues in accounting and finance from Volumes I and II, looking into topics such as the importance of good governance in accounting, tax, auditing and fraud examination, ethics, sustainability, environmental issues and new technologies and their effects on accounting and finance, focusing in particular on environmental and sustainability reporting in the oil and gas and banking sectors.

This book explores research that contributes to the current literature on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that experts use to examine social investment.

Japan's fisheries sector is undergoing a major restructuring.

This book focuses on the legal and social aspects of corporate governance through doctrinal and empirical research papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility held at National Law University Delhi in 2018.

This book addresses the Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) project launched by the Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT), a research center at Sabanci University School of Management.

This book provides a platform for discussing 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.

The purpose of this book is to study an unexplored area of corporate governance.

Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members, including the author, bear some responsibility for the highly destructive corporate practices evident throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century.

This book contains compilation of emerging discourses on responsible leadership for sustainability in uncertain times.

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.

The book explores how the influence by the corporate sector in the economic interactions globally leads to the international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes.

This book gives readers a look inside the boardrooms and directors' minds-a desirable but highly challenging task for researchers due to the lack of access to top teams in organizations.

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 continues the discussion 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.

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.

This book delves into corporate governance, sustainability, and information systems related to the aviation sector.

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.

While good data is an enterprise asset, bad data is an enterprise liability.

This book examines the nature of the marketization of corporate boards following the introduction of the split share reform, corporate board and shareholder relations, corporate performance, and risk-taking conduct in China.

This book delves into the concept of data as a critical enterprise asset needed for informed decision making, compliance, regulatory reporting and insights into trends, behaviors, performance and patterns.

This book presents the first broad reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).