Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book discusses and analyses fraud and corruption cases from many industries including construction, finance, pharmaceutical, transport, retail, medical, health, communication, education and military.

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

Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis the prevailing economic development model based on an assumption of unlimited resources and, therefore, unlimited growth has been increasingly put into question by academics, policy-making agencies and even industry leaders themselves.

This book gives an overview of the most important theories on Corporate Governance, investigating the myth and the reality of it.

This book transposes the 'free-energy principle', as espoused by the neuroscientist Karl Friston, to strategic governance, and forming the new concept of Free-Energy Governance (FEG).

Transfer pricing is considered a new and complex concept in terms of guidelines and regulations.

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.

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

Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties?

This book delivers the essential concepts and theoretical perspectives of corporate governance and board busyness.

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 book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States.

With the transition into the Knowledge Economy, a formidable series of new challenges arise within the corporate governance space.

This book is an in-depth study of how to promote integrity and avoid fraud & corruption in the work of international organisations, in particular multilateral development banks, such as the European Investment Bank, World Bank, Asian/Inter-American/African Development Banks and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Entering developing markets, companies are challenged by various cultures and widespread corruption.

The aim of this edited volume is to bring together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

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

Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in industry.

Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics compared to developed economies.

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.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

Establishing a corporate governance strategy that promotes the efficient use of organisational resources is instrumental in the economic growth of a country, as well as the successful management of firms.

"e;How are business models purposeful designed and structured?

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.

This book addresses a selection of major topics in family businesses, namely 'managerialization' and 'professionalization', succession, internationalization, access to financial markets, and how governance and control systems can help family firms respond to common problems inherent in the business.

This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history.

Connecting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Corporate Governance (CG) is a 21st Century challenge.

This book illustrates how CSR can be used as a tool to improve corporate governance in organizations and improve the relationship between business and society.

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

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 examines corporate governance through a holistic lens that integrates financial, social and environmental goals, e.

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

Today's financial sector faces multiple challenges stemming from ecological, societal, and technological risks such as climate change, political extremism, and cyber-attacks.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an international perspective, the goal being to share ideas and visions for a sustainable future and to provide useful guidelines for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the context of the 2030 "e;Agenda for Sustainable Development"e; released by the United Nations.

Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality.

This book presents a comprehensive study on how twenty-three countries have approached the issue of company groups.

This book makes a valuable contribution to innovation management in the form of an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary international approaches.

This title provides clear and readily applicable guidance to corporate board members on the involvement of boards of directors in information technology (IT) governance.

This volume is divided into three major parts, each of which symbolizes a new virtuous circle that is added to the previous one in order to foster the dissemination of humanistic management (HM) among corporations and social institutions.

This book examines key methodological and organizational questions with regard to assessing the quality of internal audits.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the Cyberspace, of how institutions and industries are reinventing themselves, helping them excel in the transition to a fully digitally connected global economy.

This book seeks to understand the investigation and settlement of employer/employee disputes within companies.

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

This book provides a concise and pragmatic introduction to transfer pricing.

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

More than 80% of the financial assets in the United States fall under the purview of a trustee.

This book discusses the implementation of sustainability in corporate governance mechanisms since 2013 and assesses how much the role of the Board of Directors has changed as a result.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually.