Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book gives readers a look inside the boardrooms and directors' minds-a desirable but highly challenging task for researchers due to the lack of access to top teams in organizations.

Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective.

Is your firms board creating valueor destroying it?

In this book world-renowned experts present a timely investigation of the prospects for reformed market-regulation after the financial crisis.

Evolving stories of governance and change are being written into the emerging custom and practice of all kinds of organizations today, whether they are global or domestic, startup or blue chip, corporate or government agency.

Corporate activities are not only drivers of economic growth but also key actors of the changes towards more sustainable markets and environment as well as inclusive development.

This book explores the regulatory challenges of public company shareholder activism.

Lean Management wird inzwischen weltweit in nahezu allen Branchen erfolgreich angewendet und beschränkt sich, wie bereits gesagt, nicht mehr nur auf fertigende Prozesse (Lean Production), sondern bezieht auch andere Geschäftsbereiche ein, wie etwa die Instandhaltung (Lean Maintenance) oder die Geschäftsprozesse (Lean Administration).

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

Over the years, the education sector has witnessed substantial transformations and developments, driven primarily by the rapid growth of technology and inventive pedagogical approaches.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving dynamics in modern banking, emphasizing how digitalization and optimization are reshaping operational frameworks, fundamentally altering institutional structures, and introducing new risks and opportunities.

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

Women Directors analyzes the Italian law on gender quotas in boards as a vital opportunity for the country and a key international case.

This book analyzes shifting international taxation strategies in pursuit of tax nomads, individuals and companies who minimize their tax obligations among multiple countries.

Consider a world in which efficiency and innovation coexist.

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

Contemporary management studies usually focus on positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance.

In the 5th edition of this successful book Martin Hilb presents an innovative and integrated approach to the theory and practice of corporate governance.

This book takes stock of where we are in the practice of central banking and considers implications arising from the ongoing crisis.

Actuarial Principles: Lifetables and Mortality Models explores the core of actuarial science: the study of mortality and other risks and applications.

This book highlights critical challenges for business in a world where corporate responsibility has gone global.

Das Lehrbuch ermöglicht einen schnellen Einstieg in (wirtschafts-)ethische Grundlagentheorien sowie in die moralische Verhaltensökonomik, die angesichts weitreichender Unternehmensskandale zunehmend in den Fokus akademischer Lehrpläne rückt.

It is generally accepted that the three pillars of sustainability - economic, environmental, and social - are crucial, and must be addressed if we are to achieve sustainability in the future.

This management book is published in association with the Institute of Management and Leadership (ILM).

This book advances diagnosis-prognosis models that mark antecedent frames in various commercial forms of communication-annual reports, investigative fiction-Poirot series, Sci-Fi, and advertisements.

The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast.

Uta Christina Zentes analysiert in diesem Buch, welche wesentlichen Elemente ein Programm zur Korruptionsprävention enthalten muss, um regulatorisch vollständig zu sein.

This book provides insights into identifying and dealing with possible corporate tax risks.

This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication.

Written from a governance perspective, this book brings together pension fund management and operation.

Der Sammelband enthalt 23 Beitrage ausgewiesener Wissenschaftler und Praktiker des In- und Auslands zur Entwicklung institutioneller Anleger (Banken, Versicherungen, Investmentfonds, Pensionsfonds usw.

The revised new edition of the must-read guide for executives provides comprehensive coverage of topics in corporate governance by leading subject-matter experts The Handbook of Board Governance is the marketing-leading text on public, nonprofit, and private board governance.

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.

A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.

In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate.

Der schleichende Niedergang der Credit Suisse hat erneut vor Augen geführt, wie bedeutend eine auf nachhaltigen Erfolg ausgerichtete Corporate Governance für alle Unternehmen ist.

The Innovative Dinosaur offers a detailed roadmap for traditional organizations facing the existential threat of digital disruption.

Explores how corporations can rebuild trust through organisational and regulatory design across interlocking themes.

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

This book analyses various aspects of social responsibility, corporate responsibility, sustainability and governance.

This book provides comparative perspectives on the purpose of the modern company, its role in society and its regulation.

This book explores the regulatory challenges of public company shareholder activism.

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Idea Generation to Business Plan Formulation 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.

Corporations are the productive engine of market economies.

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