Responsible Governance: International Perspectives For the New Era

ISBN-13: 9781606498927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 180 str.

Tom Cockburn; Khosro S. Jahdi

Opis

Leaders must develop new governance models and capabilities if they are to successfully steer their communities through the whitewater rapids of the newly emerging era of social digital connectivity and global dynamic complexity. This new edited book deals with perspectives, debates and case studies illustrating the dynamic complexity of corporate governance in global business now and in future. These are pivotal matters with which leaders and stakeholders must become familiar if they are to be successful in the network age where there are indicators of 'democratization' trends, rising levels of 'shareability' amongst groups of 'prosumers', wider accessibility to information enabling greater scrutiny and accountability or regulation as well as greater surveillance at all organizational levels. With enhanced communication, there are other perceived shifts in political and economic power blocs. This new book indicates specifically how leaders may recognize, review, unlearn old or unhelpful ways of working, the better to reframe the vision and learn new ways to react to these new factors.

Evolving stories of governance and change are being written into the emerging custom and practice of all kinds of organizations today, whether they are global or domestic, startup or blue chip, corporate or government agency. Changing ways of doing business are not new, nor is globalization of business, but the velocity and trajectory of both are rapidly accelerating beyond those seen in previous times. There are increasing concerns and challenges for the boards of directors and other governance systems and processes. They are intended to ensure good stewardship of the diverse organizations in the period following the global nancial crisis. Responsible Governance aims to challenge assumptions and present current debates for readers, grounding the critical issues or descriptions in relevant historical and social contexts as well as suggesting ways forward. Dr Tom Cockburn obtained his rst degree with honors from Leicester University, England, both his MBA and Doctorate were gained at Cardiff University, Wales. Tom is associate fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and is currently director-policy for the Center for Dynamic Leadership Models in Global Business and a senior associate of The Leadership Alliance Inc., headquartered in Canada.