This book responds to key issues in strategic management control by studying the interplay between ethics, social and environmental performance and governance.
This book focuses on the restructuring of distressed businesses, emphasizing the need for new financing during the restructuring process as well as during relaunch, and examines the role of law in encouraging creditor confidence and incentivizing lending.
Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines whether qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs), through their shareholder activism, have a meaningful positive impact on the corporate governance of firms listed on the mainland Chinese stock market.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2018, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2018.
This book discusses the concept of sustainability valuation, a method in which corporate social responsibility (CSR) among other factors is embedded in the cash value of a given firm.
More extensive regulations, new technologies, and new means of communication have significantly changed the financing landscape for startups and small to medium-sized companies (SMEs).
This volume features a selection of contributions presented at the 2018 Wroclaw Conference in Finance, which cover a wide range of topics in finance and financial economics, e.
This book focuses on the regulatory aspect of retail investor protection in the context of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the Indian securities market.
In a business climate marked by escalating global competition and industry disruption, successful mergers and acquisitions are increasingly vital to the growth and profitability of many corporations.
This book illustrates the application of the economic concept of stochastic dominance to option markets and presents an alternative option pricing paradigm to the prevailing no arbitrage simultaneous equilibrium in the frictionless underlying and option markets.
This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.
Corporate governance, a subject that a few decades ago escaped the attention of all but a handful of academics and shareholders, has gradually become a central concern worldwide.
This book uses the building blocks of modern capital market theory, including behavioural finance, as the point of departure for an analysis of hidden ethical content in the contemporary research into capital markets.
This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis.
This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow.
Filling a gap in existing literature on revenue management systems, this book explores the use of business strategies which are specifically designed to have a positive impact on economic and financial efficiency.
This book is designed to meet the needs of CFOs, accounting and financial professionals interested in leveraging the power of data-driven customer insights in management accounting and financial reporting systems.
This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value.
With M&As in the RIA space increasing, many firms are rapidly changing hands with little to no expert guidance on how to successfully execute a merger or acquisition.
This book explores the evolution of the banking sector and the financing tools it fosters, addressing the impact of new regulations and the ensuing opportunities for financial institutions, firms, and individuals.
*Winner of the 'Research of the Year' award at the 2025 Sport Positive Awards*This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity.
The must-read summary of Zeynep Ton's book: "e;The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits"e;.
Sustainable finance involves making investment decisions that consider not only financial returns, but also environmental, social, and governance factors.
This textbook discusses supply chain management and provides a comprehensive overview of all the key activities and issues of supply chain and logistics functions as an integrated discipline.
This book explores the much talked about but less understood issue of sustainability reporting, in a global context, linking it to the application of blockchain and other emerging technologies.
In the "e;More than Moore"e; era, performance requirements for leading edge semiconductor devices are demanding extremely fine pitch interconnection in semiconductor packaging.
This book explains and illustrates each of the requirements for a nontaxable corporate division and the methods for mitigating the tax consequences when those requirements cannot be satisfied.
Digitale Transformation und Nachhaltigkeit haben sich auch in der Finanzwirtschaft zu zentralen Themenfeldern in Forschung und wissenschaftlicher Diskussion entwickelt und haben in der Finance-Literatur auch ihren festen Platz gefunden.
This book offers managers a complete analysis of the various issues of credit risk management for trade credit financing instruments supported by applications to various types of markets and presents an analysis on risks associated with trade credit in supply chains.
The Value Imperative is about understanding and creating value to become more prosperous, otain higher levels of success as a business and as a person, and become a better executive, manager, and leader.
