Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book helps the organization's top leader gather the information needed to identify opportunities and threats and decide on the appropriate risk response in this uncertain world.

The authors of this important book analyse the pitfalls and risks of doing business in ASEAN countries that are mostly absent in Western markets, covering various strategic, external, operational, and legal-cultural challenges for international companies.

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.

Do ethics pay?

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).

Is your firms board creating valueor destroying it?

Korine reframes the question of succession in family and founder-lead businesses as an issue of entrepreneurial choice, concentrating on the challenge of succession for change as opposed to the traditional focus on succession for continuity.

An introduction to the essential and widely-studied subject of corporate finance, organised around six key ideas.

This book discusses the possibility of corporate professionals-specifically accountants, bankers, and financiers-being influenced by the seventh art, i.

Seit einigen Jahren beschäftigt die Automatisierung beliebiger Prozesse und Prozessschritte mit der RPA-Technologie die Finanzwirtschaft.

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.

This book provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

This book presents research from leading researchers in the European banking field to explore three key areas of banking.

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

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

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

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda.

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

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 provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

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.

The Ethical Leader showcases the necessity and practicality of using an ethics-based business model for competitive advantage and long-term organizational success.

Charts the rise and fall of confrontational hedge fund activism in Japan.

Why has Japan's lost decade become the lost two decades?

Ethical Theory and Business is the authoritative guide to business ethics and CSR, with cutting edge theoretical readings and cases.

There are no commonly accepted theories of change that have been developed for China or countries in transition.

An investigation of the potential and limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the oil and gas sector.

This book presents the current state of knowledge concerning developments in organisational behaviour and human capital management in the new millennium.

This book critically examines shareholder primacy and develops a new theory of shared corporate governance that includes employees.

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

Bringing together a number of leading scholars and pioneering research, this volume explores the links between corporate governance and international business, and demonstrates how corporate governance influences the attractiveness of host countries to inward investors, as well as the internationalization strategies of MNEs themselves.

This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair.

This book provides a detailed assessment of current approaches to transfer pricing in the context of small- and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs), including the newest update of Transfer Pricing Guidelines from 10 July 2017.

This book offers a new framework for analysing government policies relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in multinational corporations: direct and indirect policies for CSR.

This book discusses the tasks and functions of corporate governance in the light of current challenges and the dynamics that arise from a broader approach to company management and the integration of corporate governance with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

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.

This book examines various aspects of changes to business behavior through the lenses of the "e;twin pillars"e; of sustainability - responsibility and governance.

This book highlights the latest research on responsible business and its practical implications for the economy, society, academia, and politics.

The family business becomes much more complex as it goes from the founder to next generations.

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

No boardroom in any industry is safe from new market threats in this time of rapid technological growth.

Human resource (HR) governance is a relatively new construct that has recently begun attracting more and more attention in both research and practice.

This book brings together research works, ideas, critical reviews and strategic proposals encompassing various ethical and corporate governance issues in workplaces and organizations around the globe.

The revised second edition of Measures and Metrics in Corporate Security is an indispensable guide to creating and managing a security metrics program.

This book assembles the world''s most authoritative specialists for a comparative analysis of the enforcement of corporate and securities laws in thirteen national jurisdictions.

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

This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century.