Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

This book provides a unique analysis of the complex relationship between governance and the global commons.

This book provides a unique analysis of the complex relationship between governance and the global commons.

This book demonstrates creative ways law can regulate corporate social responsibility and address governance challenges in national and transnational contexts.

Corporations are the productive engine of market economies.

How do you figure out what to do in a job?

With an ever-increasing number of liability lawsuits, are corporations electing to play it safe rather than risk the uncertainties accompanying innovation?

This book examines corporate social responsibility theories and models in the context of developing countries.

This book examines corporate social responsibility theories and models in the context of developing countries.

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, Fourth Edition provides a real-world view of this fast-evolving field, reviewing and analyzing recent innovations and developments.

The increasingly crucial role of companies' non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting.

This book examines the Indian mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its implementations in various individual organizations.

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 provides an insight in the phenomenon of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), including the various forms of corporate restructuring.

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.

In this book we capture and explore different aspects of value in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

This book systematically defines and analyses the rise of China's innovation system and Chinese corporate governance model.

This book discusses the role of grant-making foundations in supporting local communities, and how effective governance can contribute to greater success of the social projects they finance.

This book presents a study of cooperatives as a two-layer entrepreneurial model, and analyzes cooperative enterprises.

Exploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms.

This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world's largest rescue company, Falck.

This trusted handbook for nonprofit board service is newly revised and includes new case studies and even more tips and ideas from the trenches of nonprofit board work.

Named one of the Best books of 2024: Business by the Financial TimesAn indispensable guide to help companies navigate the new era of ethical challenges and risks in a volatile global landscape.

This book provides useful tools and information to help readers understand the key factors involved in organizing, structuring and managing a company in China.

This is the first book to furnish a root cause of the low valuation of Japanese listed companies by using, as qualitative evidence, unique global investor surveys, which are rarely available for Japanese companies.

Social and environmental issues are more important than ever and consumers are committed to supporting change.

Take control of your data for a more intelligent, responsive businessProactive management of your corporate information has never been more important.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist** An accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.

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 Manager's Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing and Managing a Successful Assets Protection Program, Second Edition, guides readers through today's dynamic security industry, covering the multifaceted functions of corporate security and providing managers with advice on how to grow not only their own careers, but also the careers of those they manage on a daily basis.

This book examines how consumers are protected on the online marketplace in the context of ASEAN countries.

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).

The Best of Peter F.

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.