Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system-be it a car, a building, or a chemical plant-can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use.

This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system-be it a car, a building, or a chemical plant-can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use.

Business success depends on the ability to build trust.

Business success depends on the ability to build trust.

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books.

The main objective of this book is to provide both academics and practitioners with a global vision of the evolution of internal auditing in a fast-changing business landscape driven by digital transformation.

Responsibly led boards of directors make it possible for modern companies to survive and prosper under conditions of change.

Responsibly led boards of directors make it possible for modern companies to survive and prosper under conditions of change.

All corporate entities, from the largest multinational conglomerate to the smallest tennis club, need effective governance.

All corporate entities, from the largest multinational conglomerate to the smallest tennis club, need effective governance.

This book presents a comprehensive and expert-led insight into the role, types, practises and determinants of corporate narrative reporting (CNR).

This book presents a comprehensive and expert-led insight into the role, types, practises and determinants of corporate narrative reporting (CNR).

The first introductory practical guide of its kind, this book brings together principles of corporate governance, investor stewardship and enterprise sustainability in the context of institutional investment.

The first introductory practical guide of its kind, this book brings together principles of corporate governance, investor stewardship and enterprise sustainability in the context of institutional investment.

Little has been published on accounting standards in Japan and how they have developed.

Leaders - whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector - take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level.

Leaders - whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector - take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of African Business, this book delves into contemporary issues in business and business knowledge development in Africa.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of African Business, this book delves into contemporary issues in business and business knowledge development in Africa.

This book investigates why the convergence of Japan's bank-centered financial system to an American-style capital market-based model has lost steam since the mid-2000s, despite financial deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s.

This book investigates why the convergence of Japan's bank-centered financial system to an American-style capital market-based model has lost steam since the mid-2000s, despite financial deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s.

Corporate governance developed to maintain the accountability, stability, and performance of corporations.

Corporate governance developed to maintain the accountability, stability, and performance of corporations.

The Rules of Project Risk Management, 2nd Edition, provides practical experience-based guidance to support the delivery of effective project risk management.

The Rules of Project Risk Management, 2nd Edition, provides practical experience-based guidance to support the delivery of effective project risk management.

A compelling mix of reputation management, crisis leadership and the role of politics in business, this book provides unique practical steps that leaders can take to protect their reputations and those of the organisations they head in an ever more open social media-led world.

This book is aimed at contemplating and reflecting on future course of action for businesses in order to become more resilient.

This book is aimed at contemplating and reflecting on future course of action for businesses in order to become more resilient.

This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective.

This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective.

While there is a vast amount of literature examining firm's networks from an industrial organization perspective, the financial implications of networking remain underexplored.

While there is a vast amount of literature examining firm's networks from an industrial organization perspective, the financial implications of networking remain underexplored.

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation.

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation.

Supply Chain Management and Corporate Governance: Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory and Robust Optimisation is the first innovative, comprehensive analysis and analytical robust optimisation modelling of the relationships between corporate governance principles and supply chain management for risk management and decision-making under uncertainty in supply chain operations.

This book explores the intricate world of strategic management.

Academic Health Science Centers are complex organizations with three principal functions: the education of the next generation of health professionals; the conduct of biomedical and clinical research that leads to new treatments and approaches to disease; and the delivery of comprehensive and advanced patient care.

Academic Health Science Centers are complex organizations with three principal functions: the education of the next generation of health professionals; the conduct of biomedical and clinical research that leads to new treatments and approaches to disease; and the delivery of comprehensive and advanced patient care.

Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national competitiveness and it is not only complex-requiring cooperation and coordination among many stakeholders-but it also involves high risk due to uncertainty.

Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national competitiveness and it is not only complex-requiring cooperation and coordination among many stakeholders-but it also involves high risk due to uncertainty.

This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India.

This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India.

Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level, as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation, regulation, international standards and good practice guidance.

Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level, as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation, regulation, international standards and good practice guidance.

The Internet is making our daily lives as digital as possible, and this new era is called the Internet of Everything (IoE).

The Internet is making our daily lives as digital as possible, and this new era is called the Internet of Everything (IoE).

Current models of corporate citizenship largely consider business as one coherent entity.