Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

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

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes.

The Truth About What Nonprofit Boards Want is a must read for every executive and fundraiser who wonders how to attract and retain passionate and generous board members.

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.

In our present state of disconnect and loss, Connected Capitalism offers us a deeper and more satisfying approach to both work and life.

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

The book covers the broad area of Corporate Governance (CG) and its constituents.

Disruptive change has clearly intensified in today's fast-paced business world.

The recent financial crisis has led to a loss of trust in corporate governance and in particular on remuneration practices and the propensity for these to create excessive risk-taking - particularly in the financial sector.

Based on extensive practical and academic experience this textbook explains how the real world of corporate governance works.

Virtually all enterprises are regulated.

This book offers a guide, for companies, pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors, on how to commence the legal, governance, and financial strategies needed for effective climate mitigation and adaptation, and to help distribute the economic benefits of these actions to their stakeholders.

IT Security governance is becoming an increasingly important issue for all levels of a company.

Across the world, organizations continue to be damaged and brought down by systemic non-compliance or the misdeeds of a few, and newspapers abound with examples of corporate and NGO scandals and crimes.

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The Rise of the Uncorporation covers the history, law, and finance of unincorporated firms.

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.

The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders.

The current global economic environment is defined by unprecedented uncertainty, a premium placed on knowledge, and the threat of future talent scarcity.

The past two decades has witnessed unprecedented changes in the corporate governance landscape in Europe, the US and Asia.

This conference volume discusses the findings of the iCAB 2024 conference that took place in Sun City, South Africa, on June 27-28 2024.

Initially, introducing compliance functions within the financial industry had been forced by regulatory scrutiny.

The recent financial crisis has created a public outcry over top-executive pay packages and has led to calls for reform of executive pay in Europe and the US.

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.

"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.

This introductory textbook explores the key issues in global business in corporate social responsibility.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

This book illustrates how CSR can be used as a tool to improve corporate governance in organizations and improve the relationship between business and society.

Currently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities.

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This book attempts to bridge academic knowledge and practitioner's knowledge regarding the control and coordination of subsidiaries in Japan.

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.

Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk deals with the highly timely topic of the Corporate Board and its relationship to risk, both in terms of its management and its creation.

Using a range of case-studies, this book analyzes corporate governance relationships between several African countries and the international community, providing an ethical assessment of issues surrounding globalization and adherence to external governance mechanisms.

A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 5th International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (ICFMCF2023), held in the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, in July 2023.

This book takes stock of where we are in the practice of central banking and considers implications arising from the ongoing crisis.

Rigorously updated textbook that balances business theory and business practice.

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

Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.

This title provides clear and readily applicable guidance to corporate board members on the involvement of boards of directors in information technology (IT) governance.

The theory of symbolic management reveals a pervasive pattern of 'symbolic decoupling' - a separation between appearances and reality - at every level of the governance system.

Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization.