Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and 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.

The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast.

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothingand yet you are somehow happy.

Aspirational business book based on interviews with over 75 leading American CEOs.

A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models Drawing on both her extensive experience founding and directing social enterprises and her interviews with sustainability leaders, Melissa Scanlan provides a legal blueprint for creating alternate corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members, including Certified B Corps and benefit corporations.

FT Briefing on Talent Management is your short, results-focusedguide to the principles, behaviours and actions that underpin any successful talent management strategy and provides the practical and accessible guidance to attract, develop and retain talent in your business.

A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what operational risk is, and how you can manage it.

A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what operational risk is, and how you can manage it.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER A complete resource to show you get ahead as a manager faster by gaining a clearer understanding of risk management.

The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity.

Experts offer strategies for managing people in technocentric times.

Practical advice for redesigning “big, old” companies for digital success, with examples from Amazon, BNY Mellon, LEGO, Philips, USAA, and many other global organizations.

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.

What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.

How non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool.

How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.

In The Cyber Crisis Handbook, you'll discover how to prepare your organisation for cyber security attacks and threats.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety.

"e;Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us.

Shareholder activism in Korea, led by a civil society organization, has been commended by Western economists.

Asset management Standards discussion's main focus on governance issues matches the established structural components of the Asset Management Standard's systematic classification.

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

How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s?

An up-to-date look at the latest thinking on Corporate Governance, capturing the wealth of experience of some 60 company secretaries in the world's top companies, whose job it is to make corporate governance work.

This book reports on foreign investments in transitional economies and the corporate governance of international strategic alliances in China.

Economic studies which examine the financing patterns of firms, particularly in emerging markets seldom consider the market environment in which they operate.

Corporate Governance in the US and Europe provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the most recent developments in corporate governance.

Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK is a cross-national study of business elites and corporate governance in France and the UK.

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

This volume introduces readers to recent developments in the fields of board of directors and corporate social responsibility.

An introductory guide to finance and the financial markets, designed to help professionals and students understand the complex finance industry.

Examining the regulatory issues of fostering technological innovation and its applications this book combines legal, economic and administrative science perspectives.

This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way.

The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined.

The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government.

Looks at the bigger picture, and the future trends that are going to affect the global business world over the next few years.

In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods.

Good governance is key to the sustainability of organizations and improving quality of life for all.

Corporate strategy expert Prakash Sethi takes an in-depth look at global structures and how regulation works from a corporate perspective, providing case studies of several industries and governments who have begun implementing voluntary codes of conducts, including Equator Principles, ICMM, and The Kimberly Process.

Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations.

Explores how companies engage in CSR activities, how their corporate identity determines the way in which they perceive the stakeholders and, as a result, engage in dialogue-based relations with them.

In The Woman's Place is in the Boardroom the authors put the business case for more women on company boards.

In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle.

This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics.

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

Green business is here.

Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance explores the fragility of the banking system, corporate governance, and the increasing securitization of corporate finance.