Corporate Governance

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

The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast. As such, this literature provides an unparalleled resource for studying the interaction...

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance. Hardly any corner of European financial markets remains untouched b...

The book provides a comprehensive, comparative treatment of the development of New Investment Funds (NIFs)--private equity, hedge funds, and sovere...

The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has brought the issues of the size, risk, and regulation of banks to the attention of a wide audience. It...

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took thi...

Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by me...

No longer only the domain of corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has now become a serious concern for many firms and ...

As financial markets grow ever more complex and integrated, households must make increasingly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible economic...

The 'personal' was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a 'professional manner' entailed the suppression of private life and fee...

This book discusses the role of electronic governance in least developed countries (LDCs) within the context of public finance management and servi...

The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language...

Corporate social responsibility is now an established agenda for large companies, with a new profession emerging that engages in the social and env...

Indigenous peoples have historically gained little from large-scale resource development on their traditional lands, and have suffered from its neg...

The 2008/9 crisis in global commercial debt markets exposed glaring deficiencies in corporate and regulatory operational and strategic risk managem...

This third collection of outstanding contributions from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) continues...

The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty ...

A compelling look at the B Corp movement and why socially and environmentally responsible companies are vital for everyone’s future—"a valuable gui...

Project governance, investment governance, and risk governance precepts are woven together in Self-Service Data Analytics and Governance for Manage...

There has never been so much pressure on nonprofit boards of directors to achieve a level of accountability that meets public and stakeholder expec...

THE PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIP The Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership offers a resource that shows how to achi...

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...

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management - one must be able to function reliably ...

Corporations are expanding their performance to both financial economic performance (ESP) and non-financial environmental, ethical, social and gove...

While many sectors have been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, e-retailing is one of the booming sectors during this period. Actually, the e...

Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas...

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince th...

So, You Wanna Build an Institution!Both our work and private lives require us to build new institutions or renovate old ones, from launching a busi...

This book positions risk management as a key element in successfully managing a nonprofit organization. Risk management in nonprofits has several u...

In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, bus...

Every organization will experience a crisis. Some will be mild; others will be severe. All will experience the unexpected. Few will experience th...

Today’s solutions are social and technical. We have the technical feasibility; it’s already in place and evolving. The social will to create new no...

The modern market-based economy generates wealth, but it lags on well-being; it has mastered efficiency, but struggles with equity; it boasts size,...