Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book deals with the highly complex but exciting subject of corporate fraud and corruption, which has since become the cops and robbers game of the 21st century: accounting fraud, embezzlement, bribery and many other forms of corruption and non-compliance cause turmoil between board members, supervisory board members and managers, while economic crime and corruption cause damages amounting to billions every year.

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations.

Over the past years, we have heard and read plenty about how executives should behave more responsibly in the light of corporate governance.

Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World's Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with constrained R&D budgets.

The key questions that need to be asked in every corporate governance analysis are 'who is running the firm' and 'how is accountability ensured'.

This book addresses the increasing prominence of family-owned business groups and their potential to influence growth and development in the global economy.

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

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.

This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught.

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

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.

The volume contains 23 articles by international experts, both scholars and practioners dealing with the development of institutional investors (such as banks, insurances, investment companies, pension funds etc.

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Move past the ESG culture wars and make better choices for your business.

This volume, inspired by and dedicated to the work of pioneering investment analyst, Jack Treynor, addresses the issues of portfolio risk and return and how investment portfolios are measured.

Corruption often flourishes in times of uncertainty and crisis.

Conventional economic and accounting systems have been exposed by the limitations of market-driven mechanisms, where public services, education and healthcare have been subordinated to profit, exacerbating the inequalities between people and countries.

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.

The globalization of financial markets worldwide has progressively pushed toward simultaneous globalization of accounting information.

This book introduces readers to the main types of corporate sustainability practices.

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.

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.