Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book brings together works written by academics from all over the world on all aspects of business history: accounting history, management history, economic history, audit history, tax history, financial history, and professional history.

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.

Business, Economics and Legal scholars have all argued about the theoretical importance of annual general meetings in assessing business shareholder relations and wider issues of corporate governance, but often without knowing how the AGM functions in practice.

The corporation is the most complex model of organizing economic activity.

Susanne Schübel untersucht den Prozess der altersbedingten Unternehmensübergabe aus einer verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Perspektive.

This book demonstrates creative ways law can regulate corporate social responsibility and address governance challenges in national and transnational contexts.

The Challenge of Sustainability: Corporate Governance in a Complicated World reviews the evolution of five types of corporate governance and their different sustainability objectives.

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.

This casebook demonstrates how companies can design and execute corporate sustainability strategies into their overall business strategy to achieve sustainable transformation.

This book analyses innovations of structuring corporate groups and regulatory limitations of group transparency and proposes Systems Thinking as solution.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

What are we to make of the power that corporations wield over people in modern society?

An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at all levels of experience and expertise This third edition of the bestselling book for nonprofit board members and professionals offers a thoroughly revised and updated resource that answers the most-commonly asked question on board governance.

This book shows how the Rana Plaza disaster led to voluntary labour governance initiatives based on a model of transnational industrial democracy.

This book systematically defines and analyses the rise of China's innovation system and Chinese corporate governance model.

Das Werk veranschaulicht, wann eine Verantwortlichkeit und damit Haftung für das Verhalten von Geschäftspartnern droht, die Korruptionsverstöße anstelle eines Unternehmens begehen.

A concise and pithy reference guide that gives busy decision makers everything they need to know about management communications to get the right results for their business This book provides you with all the powerful, practical and accessible guidance you need to transform the effectiveness of communication within 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.

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

Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society.

The cascading effects of globalization in the form of changing business environment, economic uncertainties and economic meltdown have brought about a plethora of unprecedented challenges for industry and organizations across the globe in recent years.

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

This book provides an easy, but comprehensive and rigorous access to the main concepts, terminology, methods and procedures of risk analysis intended for all those involved in the EU policy and regulatory decision making on risks.

This casebook demonstrates how companies can design and execute corporate sustainability strategies into their overall business strategy to achieve sustainable transformation.

​In diesem Fachbuch gibt Hermut Kormann 20 Wegleitungen zur Beiratsarbeit.

This book provides an extensive overview of family business-related topics such as context and uniqueness, lifecycle and ownership configurations, conflict management, corporate governance, succession challenges, internationalization, innovation, and socioemotional wealth.

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.

By drawing up a model of the internal communication system of Bangladeshi ready-made garment factories, Helene Blumer identifies the existence and intensity of its communication flows.

This book gives an overview of the most important theories on Corporate Governance, investigating the myth and the reality of it.

This book explores theoretical and empirical perspectives on corporate governance and sustainability and reflects upon India's three decades of corporate governance reforms.

Everybody has a plan - until they don't.

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

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

This book explores different dimensions of the field of corporate governance and social responsibility.

This volume takes a hard look at the soft practice of corporate governance.

"OKR im Mittelstand: Effizienz und Innovation durch klare Ziele" von James P.

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

Leadership Scaffolding discusses the practicalities for middle managers of leadership - providing readers with the framework or scaffolding to being an effective manager.

This book presents empirical evidence on the convergence of financial and management accounting in the Italian context.

This volume examines the word that's on everybody's lips in business, in government and in society - sustainability.

Directors: Improve Board Performance The Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers current and aspiring board members essential up-to-date governance guidance that blends rigorous research-based information with the wisdom found only through practical, direct experience.

This book breaks the boundaries of the single enterprise, proposing the symbiotic business model, and discussing business model design engineering as well as other new concepts, methods and ideas.

A major international study on corporate governance and Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in twenty-one countries.

Few organizations realize a return on their digital investment.

This book takes into consideration the development of different forms of populism in various countries with democratic political systems over the past two decades.