Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where 'all' includes all humanity and all of life's beings.

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.

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, yet comprehensive guide that can be used to easily communicate effective risk management ideas among the various stakeholders who comprise a nonprofit organization.

Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy.

The fundamental goal of any business is to be different-to be better than those with whom it is competing.

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.

This book advances diagnosis-prognosis models that mark antecedent frames in various commercial forms of communication-annual reports, investigative fiction-Poirot series, Sci-Fi, and advertisements.

This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owned enterprises and demanding better government accountability, transparency and citizen participation.

This book discusses various interactions in the sustainability and development sector.

Few organizations realize a return on their digital investment.

Use an IT Governance strategy to reduce riskAn Introduction for Directors and IT professionalsThe modern organisation is increasingly working within the context of corporate governance.

It has become increasingly clear that promotion of sustainability initiatives by governments and other public institutions alone is not enough to bring about the necessary progress in tackling the 'Grand Challenges' of climate change and inequality.

Companies like Enron, WorldCom, and Siemens have defined the dark side of the corporate world in the 21st century.

Use an IT Governance strategy to reduce riskAn Introduction for Directors and IT professionalsThe modern organisation is increasingly working within the context of corporate governance.

A director's guide to IT governanceThis book is an essential read for those sitting on the board of any organisation that wants to secure its information, its intellectual property and its competitive advantage.

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This book discusses the role of diversity and equity in accounting, management control, governance, and auditing.

Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and related heritage organisations.

Cloud computing is at the vanguard of the Metaverse-driven digital transformation.

This book explores business and governance solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all UN member states in 2015.

QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource (4th edition) offers both practical and thought-provoking articles for the finance practitioner, written by leading experts from the markets and academia.

When is a gift not a gift?

When is a gift not a gift?

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

Shows you the innovative IT governance model developed by the largest consulting firm in the worldThis pocket guide provides you with an insider s detailed description of Accenture s IT governance policy and details its governance structure.

This edited volume contains original papers examining issues concerning the effects of national and international institutional factors on corporate governance and performance.

Research on accounting in LDCs argues that a well-developed corporate governance structure, including accounting infrastructure, would promote economic prosperity.

In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume.

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

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

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

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

Social entrepreneurs greatly differ from other forms of entrepreneurs in terms of judgment capacity, pro-activeness, innovativeness, entrepreneurial virtue.

Social entrepreneurs greatly differ from other forms of entrepreneurs in terms of judgment capacity, pro-activeness, innovativeness, entrepreneurial virtue.

The three pillars of sustainability - Environmental protection, Social sustainability, and Economic sustainability - are well known since the Brunndtland Commission report.

The three pillars of sustainability - Environmental protection, Social sustainability, and Economic sustainability - are well known since the Brunndtland Commission report.

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise.

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise.

This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public-corporate-social-community-faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world.

Corporate Governance in a Nordic Setting focuses on the historical, cultural and political development of the Swedish corporate governance code and model.

This book is designed to illuminate the features of cross-sector partnerships that make them powerful vehicles to drive social change.

This book is designed to illuminate the features of cross-sector partnerships that make them powerful vehicles to drive social change.

In a changing and complex environment currently facing the main challenges of sustainable development, effective management of knowledge, intellectual assets, organizational learning, and talent management are the basis for social innovation and new ways of competition.

After the global financial crisis, the topic of corporate governance has been gaining momentum in accounting and finance literature since it may influence firm and bank management in many countries.

In a developing market economy like India, corporate governance is becoming an integral part of the national agenda towards industrialization, economic reform and financial liberalization.

In a developing market economy like India, corporate governance is becoming an integral part of the national agenda towards industrialization, economic reform and financial liberalization.

Corporate governance is oriented around the values of fairness, transparency and accountability.

Corporate governance is oriented around the values of fairness, transparency and accountability.