Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors

Italian banks and financial intermediaries are subject to extensive regulation which has evolved throughout the country's history.

This is the first book to examine the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society which relies increasingly on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats.

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership.

The book explores the theoretical and empirical issues relating to the interaction between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by Indian companies.

This book presents a series of studies on organizations across Europe, displaying new perspectives on institutional resilience of affected governance structures during crisis.

Written from a governance perspective, this book brings together pension fund management and operation.

The battle to preserve the environment is only just beginning - organisations and governments cannot underestimate the public outcry for cleaner environments and an end to increases in global warming.

A truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective.

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

Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in industry.

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance.

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership.

Macroeconomic turbulence and volatility in financial markets can fatally affect firm's performance.

In diesem Buch zeigen zwei Experten, wie Berater erfolgreich Finanzdienstleistungsunternehmen aufbauen und positionieren.

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the legitimacy, accountability, authority, and effectiveness of non-state actors and standards.

Integrated reporting (IR) has emerged as an accounting change initiative and has rapidly gathered worldwide attention.

The contemporary issue of the Anglo-American corporate vale model is short-termism.

This book is designed to support shop-floor executives and practicing professionals who are willing to check and strengthen their skills in designing good governance mechanisms, effective implementation schemes and in fine-tuning as may become necessary.

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

In the boardroom, executive and non-executive directors must frequently make decisions balancing competing interests and conflicting moral norms, with their actions impacting employees, customers, shareholders, and society at large.

The increasingly crucial role of companies' non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting.

This book is an in-depth study of how to promote integrity and avoid fraud & corruption in the work of international organisations, in particular multilateral development banks, such as the European Investment Bank, World Bank, Asian/Inter-American/African Development Banks and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Due to the growing importance of IT-based innovations, contemporary firms face an excessive number of proposals for IT projects.

It is apparent that all forms of organisation have governance requirements and procedures but too often we just consider governance in a corporate environment.

This management book is published in association with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity.

A comprehensive guide to transforming boards and achieving best-practice governance in any organisation.

"Nachhaltige Führung: Strategien zur Integration von Nachhaltigkeit und Gewinn" von Linda V.

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

The book discusses the various aspects of diversity of corporate boards in terms of gender, age, nationality, tenure, education, experience and personalities.

Comparative study of withdrawal remedies in four jurisdictions to offer solutions to shareholder conflicts in small and medium enterprises.

From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises.

In "e;Leadership for a Living Planet,"e; Linda V.

Rigorously updated textbook that balances business theory and business practice.

The Innovative Dinosaur offers a detailed roadmap for traditional organizations facing the existential threat of digital disruption.

Things will always go wrong in organisations.

Actuarial Principles: Lifetables and Mortality Models explores the core of actuarial science: the study of mortality and other risks and applications.

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership.

In the boardroom, executive and non-executive directors must frequently make decisions balancing competing interests and conflicting moral norms, with their actions impacting employees, customers, shareholders, and society at large.

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in public pressure on the accountability of business organizations.

New industrial centres are emerging in the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), where large numbers of plants have been constructed in recent years, creating many manufacturing jobs.

This book continues the discussion on recent developments relating to ethical and sustainable issues in accounting and finance from Volumes I and II, looking into topics such as the importance of good governance in accounting, tax, auditing and fraud examination, ethics, sustainability, environmental issues and new technologies and their effects on accounting and finance, focusing in particular on environmental and sustainability reporting in the oil and gas and banking sectors.

Over the course of the last 70 years, asset managers?

Today, a large proportion of the world's states are under authoritarian governments.