Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book brings together works written by academics from all over the world on all aspects of business history: accounting history, management history, economic history, audit history, tax history, financial history, and professional history.

Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Critical Thinking Applied to Business Management (Volume 2) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Recent Conceptualizations of Critical Thinking (Volume 1) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

Crony Capitalism in India provides a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the important topic of crony capitalism, filling an important gap in the market.

This book integrates corporate governance, corporate finance and accounting to formulate sound financial management strategies.

Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society.

In-depth analysis of the derivative action in Asia – a critical part of Asian corporate law and governance.

A number of truly disruptive events have occurred in recent times, from the financial crisis and the pandemic to political conflict with broad ramifications for international business conduct.

Islamic Finance and Corporate Governance: Synergies for Sustainable Growth explores the intersection of Islamic financial concepts and corporate governance practices, with the objective of promoting long-lasting economic expansion.

It is the year 2017 and gender equality and women thriving in work place without fear of sexual harassment or discrimination is the #1 unsolved social issue of our time.

An essential guide for board members and executives who need to understand the impact of digital on their thinking and decision making Duty of Care: An Executive's Guide for Corporate Boards in the Digital Era offers a much needed guide for board directors and leaders who need to get up-to-speed and close their digital knowledge gap in order to make the right decisions about digital technology investment and deployments.

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.

Rigorously updated textbook that balances business theory and business practice.

This book explains the law and regulation of global economic governance, focusing especially on international business.

This book brings together research works, ideas, critical reviews and strategic proposals encompassing various ethical and corporate governance issues in workplaces and organizations around the globe.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the interaction between ESG strategies and value creation.

Corporate strategy expert Prakash Sethi takes an in-depth look at global structures and how regulation works from a corporate perspective, providing case studies of several industries and governments who have begun implementing voluntary codes of conducts, including Equator Principles, ICMM, and The Kimberly Process.

Effective risk management allows opportunities to be maximized and uncertainty to be minimized.

Direkte Demokratie hat aus dem Armenhaus Europas das beste Land der Welt gemacht.

This volume contains contributions from the Journee de droit de l'entreprise co-organised by the Centre for Business Law of the University of Lausanne (CEDIDAC) and the Enterprise for Society Centre (E4S) - a joint venture of the University of Lausanne, IMD and EPFL -, on 25 May 2021.

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

What should senior managers do in the face of the unrelenting change that confronts them today?

Over recent decades corporate governance has developed an increasingly high profile in legal scholarship and practice, especially in the US and UK.

Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives.

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR.

This is the first book offering a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of the emerging business and human rights field.

This book addresses the growing interest among policymakers, practitioners and academics in the evolution and the future implications of social, environmental and sustainability accounting.

This book is intended for human resources management academics, researchers, students, organizational leaders and managers, HR Practitioners, and those responsible for helping support employees in the 21st-century workplace.

A new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field!

The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments.

An analysis of the different ways in which power operates within modern corporations.

This book presents a variety of discussions from different countries about regulations and applications of ethics in business practice.

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership.

Takes readers through an in-depth examination of many leading industrialized nations and identifies both the drivers that propel corporations towards convergence and the major impediments that stand in the way of convergence.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Presents a worldwide survey of public and private enforcement of securities law for misrepresentation on financial markets and compensation of investors'' losses.

This book provides novel insight into the governance of banks and looks at regulatory measures for strengthening bank stability.

This book presents the latest evidence on, and new approaches to, the development of Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging and established economies.

This book critically examines shareholder primacy and develops a new theory of shared corporate governance that includes employees.

This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure.

This new edition of The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs builds on the success of the first edition (2005) by comprehensively updating and enhancing the material and structure, setting a new standard for the practitioner and student of the global public affairs discipline.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked about innovations of the present.

The book provides a thorough analysis of how the private sector can play a role in the Responsibility to Protect.

Co-creation, a strategy inspired by product and service design, would stimulate public innovation, improve governance and reinvigorate our democracy.