Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Design thinking is widely recognized as an alternative approach to innovation, but it can be challenging to implement, often conflicting with organizational structures, cultures, and processes.

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, yet comprehensive guide that can be used to easily communicate effective risk management ideas among the various stakeholders who comprise a nonprofit organization.

This book provides a critical assessment of the development of the Stewardship Code 2020, which sets out principles regarding the role of institutional investors in corporate governance.

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation appears at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natural resources depletion, and significant failure of governments and global businesses to attend to worldwide social problems.

A nuanced justification of what types of diversity initiatives are most useful for corporations, and how they should be implemented.

In order to avoid another Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco, company directors have assumed a bold and independent role in the boardroom, monitoring the actions and day-to-day operations of the CEO.

The Complete Business Process Handbook is the most comprehensive body of knowledge on business processes with revealing new research.

The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined.

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.

The book provides a comprehensive, comparative treatment of the development of New Investment Funds (NIFs)-private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds-and their impact upon labour and employment.

The virtual work world is upon us.

An invaluable resource for owners, board members, executives and advisors, showing how ownership and management interact to shape a firm''s strategy.

The substantially revised second edition of the Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date.

In this newest book on the Policy Governance approach to board leadership created by John Carver, Caroline Oliver gives readers practical, hands-on tools for getting the most from the system in the day-to-day operation of their boards.

The book examines the market reaction to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements over a period from 2003 to 2015.

This research report presents the findings of a broad survey of corporate security programs conducted by the Security Executive Council's Security Leadership Research Institute (SLRI).

This book proposes digitalization as a promising direction for green growth and sustainable development of the economy of Central Asia.

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.

This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation.

This book continues the discussion from Volume I on the risks organizations face in order to succeed with a special focus on the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 virus crisis.

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.

This volume, inspired by and dedicated to the work of pioneering investment analyst, Jack Treynor, addresses the issues of portfolio risk and return and how investment portfolios are measured.

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

This book brings together diverse ideas on selected facets of globalisation and transitions in globalisation.

Japanese corporate governance and managerial practice is at a critical juncture.

Focusing on the dichotomous and comparative analysis of the legitimacy, paradigm, and operating frames of bank governance and its reproduction in the new financial regime following the global financial crisis, this book examines in depth how corporate governance in bank institutions is legitimized, justified, and delivered in diversified financial models and their influences on the Chinese banking industry.

Since its opening up and economic reforms in 1979, China has undergone tremendous economic growth and social development, with a ten percent real gross domestic product growth per year on average through 2013.

In a book businesswomen can rally around and use as a manual, an expert in female board representation shows what it takes to get nominated to a corporate board and become a productive and respected member.

No matter how hard employees work, an organization is in real trouble if strategic decisions are not made effectively.

The current global economic environment is defined by unprecedented uncertainty, a premium placed on knowledge, and the threat of future talent scarcity.

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

An interdisciplinary and international study addressing conflict of interest in different spheres and at different levels of governance.

How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.

Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation.

In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.

The practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Middle East is explored in this volume, through a unique compilation of data and perspectives from authors living and working in the region.

A nuanced justification of what types of diversity initiatives are most useful for corporations, and how they should be implemented.

Everybody has a plan - until they don't.

Fundamentals of Risk Management provides a comprehensive introduction to enterprise risk for students and risk professionals, with tools and tips, expert insights and coverage of key developments in an ever-evolving field.

Local government has rapidly become both more important and more complex and the quality of municipal management is becoming more significant every day as local governments deal with a vast array of organizational and community challenges.

This book analyses how China's firms in the consumer electronics (CE) sector have developed their business strategy and corporate governance during the reform process.

In the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective.

In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.