Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on company law, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills.

Corporate Governance is a text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world.

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

IT security risks are constantly changing, so how do we stay ahead?

Argues that the global, informal process supervising the financial system is an overlooked form of international governance that actually works.

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

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

This book connects decentralization technologies with the world of finance and financial services.

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

Data is fundamentally changing the nature of businesses and organisations and the mechanisms for delivering products and services.

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

Corporations are the productive engine of market economies.

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 proposes three normative frameworks pertaining to risk-measurement, disclosure and governance using expert opinion and data from the top 429 non-financial companies (of the NIFTY 500 index) over a 10-year period.

A strategic, practical, cost-effective approach to fraud prevention In troubled economic times, the risk of fraud and financial crime increases.

Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors.

In order to avoid another Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco, company directors have assumed a bold and independent role in the boardroom, monitoring the actions and day-to-day operations of the CEO.

This book outlines the core concept of the theory of mixed oligopoly and presents recent results that have arisen in a mixed oligopolistic market.

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

This book focuses on microeconomic foundations of capital structure theory.

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

This book discusses how taxation can contribute to a sustainable economic development.

Business Sustainability Factors of Performance, Risk, and Disclosure examines sustainability factors of performance, risk and disclosure.

An essential foundation for any lawyer or law student, businessperson, or scholar interested in feminism''s applications to corporate law.

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

Reconceptualises the general meeting, controlling shareholders and institutional investors as fiduciaries in four leading common law Asian jurisdictions.

Daten sind das neue Gold – doch nur wer sie versteht, veredelt und gezielt nutzt, profitiert wirklich davon.

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership.

This book presents the changing face of social responsibility, showing how it has grown to encompass governance, becoming a vital part of various aspects of human endeavor.

Of those in management education who debates whether business ethics should be taught as a stand-alone course or in an embedded manner, most recommend combining both approaches for optimal results.

Commercial Contracts for UK Companies: Formation to Exit helps business owners and directors to recognise key legal and compliance issues at an early stage, enriching the level of discourse between the business and its advisers.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book explains the role of private law in governing markets.

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.

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

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance.

This book gathers selected contributions from the 10th Annual Conference of the Global Corporate Governance Institute, held in Sibiu, Romania on June 12 - 14, 2024.

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

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 5th International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (ICFMCF2023), held in the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, in July 2023.

This book contributes to growing literature on the role of business groups in the development of corporate sector and contains perspectives from the Indian economy.

No matter how hard employees work, an organization is in real trouble if strategic decisions are not made effectively.

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.

Am Fallbeispiel der Volkswagen AG Nachhaltigkeit werden erstmalig auf der Grundlage eines sozialtheoretisch inspirierten Mehrebenen-Analysemodells die Wahrnehmungen und Zuschreibungen von Unternehmensverantwortung (Corporate Responsibility) durch 33 nichtmarktliche Stakeholder aus den drei Bezugsgruppen Wissenschaft und Forschung, Politik und Verbände sowie NGOs untersucht.

This book offers up-to-date insights into the theory and practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability management.

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

Provides detailed analyses of CSR in the cement industry and in regulatory policies adopted by the central government in India.

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