Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book offers a new, nuanced, and comprehensive look at how CSR is practiced and disclosed in terms of corporate transparency, sustainability, and accountability, from the perspective of developing and emerging economies.

Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.

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.

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Stu Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie Die Komplexität von IT-Landschaften und ihr Management fordern insbesondere Großunternehmen seit Jahrzehnten heraus.

Christina Woitzik untersucht den Grad an Berücksichtigung von Nachhaltigkeitsregeln in der Unternehmenspraxis, wobei sie den Fokus auf die Berichterstattung legt und die Berichtsinhalte bezüglich bestimmter Unternehmenscharakteristika analysiert.

The recent financial crisis has created a public outcry over top-executive pay packages and has led to calls for reform of executive pay in Europe and the US.

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena.

Sebastian Frericks examines, based on a qualitative content analysis, the factors that lead large German listed companies to downfall.

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

It is estimated that there are over five million incidents of fraud and two million cyber-related crimes committed annually in the UK costing approximately 193 billion with organisations losing 183 billion per year.

Fundamentals of Risk Management provides a comprehensive introduction to enterprise risk for students and risk professionals, with tools and tips, expert insights and coverage of key developments in an ever-evolving field.

Die aktuelle Rechtspraxis der aktienrechtlichen Vorstandshaftung lautet: Der Vorstand haftet streng, aber selten.

​Katharine Wirsching untersucht mittels einer Meta-Analyse, inwiefern Definition und Operationalisierung des Familieneinflusses das Ergebnis von Performancestudien deutscher Familienunternehmen in einem internationalen Vergleich bedingen.

This book offers readers a deeper understanding of the Cyberspace, of how institutions and industries are reinventing themselves, helping them excel in the transition to a fully digitally connected global economy.

This book examines corporate reform in Japan by focusing on corporate governance and the employment system.

The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of the early 2000s.

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

This book explains the law and regulation of global economic governance, focusing especially on international business.

Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance (SPNPG) publishes double-blind peer reviewed articles in a growing area of governance research.

Presents a worldwide survey of public and private enforcement of securities law for misrepresentation on financial markets and compensation of investors'' losses.

This book presents the latest evidence on, and new approaches to, the development of Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging and established economies.

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Critical Thinking Applied to Business Management (Volume 2) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

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

Huge losses very nearly destroyed Lloyd's, a revered British institution, the world's largest insurance market.

Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives.

Presents a worldwide survey of public and private enforcement of securities law for misrepresentation on financial markets and compensation of investors'' losses.

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

What is the social licence to operate, and what are its ethical risks and promises?

Green business is here.

"e;John Zinkin's new book on Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance is a welcome addition for board members and senior management on how to improve corporate governance in the post-crisis period.

This Element explores in detail the active involvement of the board in the purpose and strategy of the corporation.

This Element explores in detail the active involvement of the board in the purpose and strategy of the corporation.

There is a crisis of trustworthiness in business and corporate integrity.

"e;This book creates the concept of "e;enterprise organization engineering"e; by introducing the paradigm of tissue engineering in life science into enterprise organization research.

A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family.

The words of business leaders matter.

This book focuses on the federalization of corporate governance in the United States from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

A timely evaluation of rapidly globalizing governance mechanisms in China and Japan.

Social Media Ethics Made Easy takes an in-depth look at the risks of social, digital and mobile media marketing without structured policies.

The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisation and the emergence of markets, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This book provides an insight in the phenomenon of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), including the various forms of corporate restructuring.

An interdisciplinary and international study addressing conflict of interest in different spheres and at different levels of governance.

Die Konkurrenzfähigkeit der Bundesliga in den internationalen Wettbewerben des europäischen Profifußballs ist ein vieldiskutiertes Thema.

Innovation is changing.