Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Nowadays, sustainability is one of the main pillars for organizations' revamp and growth.

Sentencing guidelines impose tough penalties for health and safety and environmental offences: how can you avoid them?

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

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of inclusive, sustainable development, emphasizing the critical need to integrate the perspectives and needs of people with disabilities and marginalized communities into the global sustainability transition to a sustainable future.

Nearly four million companies incorporated in the UK allow their constitution or company rule book to be dictated by the standard Articles of Association.

Pour tous les entrepreneurs et ceux qui sont en voie de le devenir, ce livre offre un accès privilégié à la vision et aux secrets d'entrepreneurs bien établis.

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

This book critically examines shareholder primacy and develops a new theory of shared corporate governance that includes employees.

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.

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

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an international perspective, the goal being to share ideas and visions for a sustainable future and to provide useful guidelines for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the context of the 2030 "e;Agenda for Sustainable Development"e; released by the United Nations.

This element presents tools and frameworks that develop the organizational evolution perspective on strategy-making.

Corporate Governance Failures in Emerging Economies - Evidence from Pakistan provides detailed insights regarding corporate governance practices, legal and regulatory frameworks, drivers of corporate governance codes, levels of compliance and various corporate governance mechanisms in an emerging market context.

Dieser Band legt dar, wie Compliance in der Sportbranche gelebt wird und wie sie theoretisch einzuordnen ist.

A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what risk management is, and how you can develop a successful strategy for your company.

Momentum is your greatest ally – with it you can do anything, without it you will stall.

Dieses Buch beschreibt, welche typischen Fälle von Bilanzmanipulationen auch im Alltag von Konzernen und KMUs vorkommen können, durch Mitarbeiter und Dienstleister.

Why are employee ownership and participation vital for the well-being of individuals, corporations and the economy?

Establishing a corporate governance strategy that promotes the efficient use of organisational resources is instrumental in the economic growth of a country, as well as the successful management of firms.

Presents a new model of boards of directors, focused on purpose, strategy and culture, to successfully navigate corporate disruptions and crisis.

The governance of the modern corporation is broadly understood as the mechanisms, relations, and processes for balancing the interests of stakeholders.

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

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance.

This book takes a fresh look at current issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) with a special focus on emerging economies.

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the key topics and emerging themes in private sector corporate governance.

Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members, including the author, bear some responsibility for the highly destructive corporate practices evident throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century.

This book explores the evolving field of management accounting change (MAC), with a particular focus on the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of performance measurement systems (PMS).

Having gone through an accelerated parliamentary process, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 came into force on 26 June, 2020 having been given Royal Assent on the 25 June, 2020.

This comprehensive study examines the global strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), the strategic evolution and the categories of their subsidiaries in China based on 150 MNCs.

In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate.

Samuel Mansell critiques the principles of stakeholder theory, proposing instead a qualified version of Friedman''s shareholder theory.

Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics compared to developed economies.

This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

This book examines the Indian mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its implementations in various individual organizations.

In order to fill up the significant inadequacy of literature on the role of female executives' within Chinese enterprises, the book, for the first time, systematically investigates both the negative and positive consequences of female executives' participation in corporate governance under the background of China, with the theoretical purpose of identifying the roles of female executives in corporate governance practices, and the practical purpose of making full use of the positive effects of female executives' participation, while minimizing the potential negative consequences of female executives' participation.

In-depth analysis of the derivative action in Asia – a critical part of Asian corporate law and governance.

Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality.

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving dynamics in modern banking, emphasizing how digitalization and optimization are reshaping operational frameworks, fundamentally altering institutional structures, and introducing new risks and opportunities.

This book attempts to establish an inter-disciplinary discourse evaluation framework to analyze multi-dimensional discursive features along 4 dimensions in Chinese and American banks' CSR reports: sentiment, readability, CSR keyword, and visualization.

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.

No boardroom in any industry is safe from new market threats in this time of rapid technological growth.

This book presents a set of models, methods, and techniques that allow the successful implementation of data governance (DG) in an organization and reports real experiences of data governance in different public and private sectors.

A nuanced justification of what types of diversity initiatives are most useful for corporations, and how they should be implemented.

This book explores the evolving field of management accounting change (MAC), with a particular focus on the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of performance measurement systems (PMS).

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