Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly heated topic since the 1980s.

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

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise.

People increasingly want to support businesses that operate with a moral code; businesses they know, like and trust.

This text remains the only book to analyse corporate internal investigations on an international level, covering the applicable law in each jurisdiction and providing guidance on how an integrated international investigation should be conducted.

The presence of sound corporate governance in a financial institution is important in maintaining the confidence of both the market and the public.

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This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, providing a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of challenges to corporations.

Leading international commentators consider the growing globalisation of crime control and its implications for national and local developments and practices.

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.

A multi-disciplinary 2010 book that focuses on how social, organisational and policy systems manage the anticipation of risks in contemporary societies.

A truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective.

Green business is here.

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.

This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and economic conditions that determine levels of shareholder participation, and the implications of variation in investor rights.

"e;Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dollar tech companies.

Globalization has changed the nature of many markets.

This book introduces and develops Contract Governance as a new approach to contract theory.

Presents a new comparative theory to explain the divergence between governance systems of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

This book seeks to explain the nature of discrimination and exclusion and why these are so prevalent in our societies.

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

On the backdrop of the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, and the emergence of multi-stakeholder-driven voluntary regulation, this timely collection places special emphasis on India and explores its international voluntary sustainability standards.

This book provides a critical analysis of existing enterprise risk management models and practices and proposes innovative solutions to address the challenges associated with implementing enterprise risk management strategies.

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

This book proposes a solution to the ''too big to fail'' problem that will help to prevent future financial crises.

There is a crisis of trustworthiness in business and corporate integrity.

A distinctive and direct guide to legitimacy in business, focusing on the new benchmark of a 'Social License to Operate'.

Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across all continents.

New industrial centres are emerging in the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), where large numbers of plants have been constructed in recent years, creating many manufacturing jobs.

This proceedings book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on risk and risk management.

Directors: Improve Board Performance The Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers current and aspiring board members essential up-to-date governance guidance that blends rigorous research-based information with the wisdom found only through practical, direct experience.

In our present state of disconnect and loss, Connected Capitalism offers us a deeper and more satisfying approach to both work and life.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER A complete resource to show you get ahead as a manager faster by gaining a clearer understanding of risk management.

An essential guide to understanding the dynamics of a startup's board of directors Let's face it, as founders and entrepreneurs, you have a lot on your plate getting to your minimum viable product, developing customer interaction, hiring team members, and managing the accounts/books.

Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

Social entrepreneurs greatly differ from other forms of entrepreneurs in terms of judgment capacity, pro-activeness, innovativeness, entrepreneurial virtue.

Filip Reyntjens''s book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front.

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.

Business and Education in the Middle East brings together academic and business expertise in order to come up with long-term strategies that will have a great effect on the university performance and governance.

Strategic Financial Management Casebook strategically uses integrative case studies-cases that do not emphasize specific subjects such as capital budgeting or value based management-to provide a framework for understanding strategic financial management.

This book explains  the politics of thirty years of 'market reform' in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual.

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.

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.

A comprehensive reference work that explores recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries.

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods.

This volume examines the word that's on everybody's lips in business, in government and in society - sustainability.

This book is designed to illuminate the features of cross-sector partnerships that make them powerful vehicles to drive social change.

This edited book aims to analyze gender perspectives within the context of sustainable development, providing a comprehensive overview of the phenomena that characterize both public and private organizations.