Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

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

This thesis examines the role of informal employee networks and their potential positive contributions to a successful implementation of disruptive organizational change.

Answers to the 12 most common and critical questions about corporate giving In this groundbreaking resource, Weeden shows how to strategically plan, manage and evaluate corporate contributions.

This book explains how corporate social responsibility is linked to long-term sustainability of an economy and that the activities of an organization should not be only for its self-interest, but must also be honed for the benefit of common good.

Compliance has long been identified by scholars of white-collar crime as a key strategic control device in the regulation of corporations and complex organisations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked about innovations of the present.

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

A detailed critical evaluation of the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

This book criticizes prevailing corporate law in the United States and articulates reforms aimed at making corporations more socially responsible.

This book presents a series of studies on organizations across Europe, displaying new perspectives on institutional resilience of affected governance structures during crisis.

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking.

Macroeconomic turbulence and volatility in financial markets can fatally affect firm's performance.

Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by men, and most people still work in occupations dominated by one sex.

The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010.

This professional guide presents an extensive overview of the German family enterprise landscape, with a special focus on its structure and diversity.

The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

Keep shareholders happy and manage for the long term.

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, entrepreneurship has never been more vital.

Plastics have long been considered useful, providing such economic advantages as reduced cost and social benefits like increased hygiene and the preservation of food.

Boards That Dare offers actionable solutions to help board directors, chairs and CEOs move away from outmoded thinking and practices.

Corporate social responsibility is becoming rapidly embedded into the strategic planning and operational processes of all organizations, while at the same time our understanding of what is meant by this phenomenon continues to develop and to be extended beyond the domain of the corporate into that of all other organizations.

This introductory textbook explores the key issues in global business in corporate social responsibility.

Illustrates the importance of corporate responsibility by integrating wealth creation and human rights.

The first volume of the series aims to give an outline of the state of the art and the most recent research being done on public and non profit governance at the international level (with particular emphasis in Europe).

A valuable interdisciplinary resource examining the concept and effectiveness of CSR as a tool for sustainable development in emerging markets.

The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast.

Asset management Standards discussion's main focus on governance issues matches the established structural components of the Asset Management Standard's systematic classification.

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.

Corporate Social Disclosure focuses on China and Japan as two countries for critical observations of the latest CSD issues.

Security Awareness – was ist das eigentlich und brauche ich das überhaupt?

Use the information presented in this book to implement an end-to-end compliance program in your organization using Microsoft 365 tools.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

For some years now, the automation of any number of processes and process steps using RPA technology has been keeping the financial sector busy.

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 embarks on a research journey that focuses on the processes of economic and social value creation in the 21st century.

The authors propose that corporations be able to hire other corporations to provide board services.

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

This book continues the discussion on the challenges that organizations face in order to implement sustainability, ethics, and effective corporate governance, all of which are important elements of "e;standing out"e; from other companies.

This edited collection emerged from the need to know how business schools in Asia are inculcating responsible management.

Business firms are ubiquitous in modern society, but an appreciation of how they are formed and for what purposes requires an understanding of their legal foundations.

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss.

This book provides a deep understanding of state-owned multinationals (SOMNCs) and their role in global business.

This book provides a rich collection of essays discussing and showcasing the transformation of businesses around the world towards sustainability and responsibility.

Discusses the nature of corporate groups and networks, and provides arguments for rules extending liability beyond insolvent entities.