Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so often fail. By studying why the auditors and members of a board of directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company's financial state of affairs, this provocative book explores a serious problem in the system of reporting financial information.
This book is unique in that it draws together various strands of the literature on corporate governance, accounting, law, cognitive...
Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This book tells why...
The last Asian financial crisis, coupled with the western series of corporate scandals, has caused investors and citizens to doubt mangers' ability to guarantee credible financial information about organizations. Consequently, legislators all over the world have come to realise the necessity of legislating in the area of corporate governance.
This book explores several national corporate governance reform experiences from around the world (including Canada, China, the United States, and the European Union) and offers an explanatory theory with regard to national...
The last Asian financial crisis, coupled with the western series of corporate scandals, has caused investors and citizens to doubt mangers'...
This book presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. Boards of directors are receiving increased interest in the business world as well as among academic audiences however few contributions integrate corporate governance and organizational behavior. In this book a research stream about value-creating boards is introduced.
Boards of directors have during the recent decades mostly been studied within a framework of corporate governance where the interests of external investors are emphasized. This book aims to go further and explore actual...
This book presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. Boards of directors are receiving increased int...
Looking at the governance of resources companies in China, this book tackles contemporary issues of resource security and environmental change which are closely related to the depletion of the world's natural resources.
Looking at the governance of resources companies in China, this book tackles contemporary issues of resource security and environmental change which a...
An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed. In this book, Ahmed Naciri examines these two core aspects or the latest buzzword in business and management theory.
Internal aspects include ownership structure, the board of directors and committees, internal control, risk management, transparency and financial reporting. External aspects can either be market-oriented, or can take the form of credit ranking, and/or social requirements. Due to the original orientation of the...
An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succ...
Bringing together leading academics, scientists and engineers, government leaders, and business executives to consider the central issues involved in the transformation toward sustainability, Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability offers a concise and definitive book on the green transformation of business in major sectors including government, finance, energy, and retail. Different solutions to sustainability are explored including ethical approaches, alternative environmental strategies, corporate responsibility, and carbon reductions.
Bringing together leading academics, scientists and engineers, government leaders, and business executives to consider the central issues involved in ...
