Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Corporate Governance

Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity's bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to...

This volume compiles a collection of case studies and exam assignments together with solutions and additional exercises at the examination level intended for exam preparation and self-study.

Dieses Herausgeberwerk prasentiert erfolgreiche Zertifizierungssysteme und deren Praxisanwendung. Es vermittelt Grundlagen fur die Zertifizierungen von Produkten, Dienstleistungen und Managementsystemen in den Handlungsfeldern Nachhaltigkeit, Okologie, Klimaschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit. Es wird dargelegt, wie Zertifizierungen fur die Umsetzung wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Ziele, die Erhaltung der Umwelt und die Erhohung des Verbrauchervertrauens genutzt werden konnen und welche Voraussetzungen dabei zu beachten sind.

Die Wirtschaft setzt zunehmend auf Zertifikate und...

The asymmetry of responsibilities between management and corporate governance both for day-to-day operations and the board's monthly or quarterly review and evaluation remains an unresolved challenge. Expertise in the area of risk management is a fundamental requirement for effective corporate governance, if not by all, certainly by some board members. This means that along with board committees such as "compensation," "audit," "strategy" and several others, "risk management" committees must be established to monitor the likelihood of certain events that may cause the collapse of the...

Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environment. Its empirical results illustrate that the effect of shareholder engagement depends on the characteristics of the specific blockholder as well as on interrelationships with additional...

Joining a board of directors is a great honour. It enables you to make an enhanced contribution to the success of an organisation but it also involves responsibilities and risks. Where regulation and litigation are concerned, ignorance is not an excuse.

Being a company director requires a different mindset, new skills, a new identity and changed relationships. The New Directors Handbook will introduce you to the roles, responsibilities and risks you should be aware of as a company director, as well as providing you with some tools to help you in your career.