Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Corporate Governance

"Board Games: Straight Talk for New Directors and Good Governance" is an essential resource for any current or aspiring board director. It identifies the issues directors are most likely to face in today's rapidly changing, potentially hazardous business environments, offering candid, well-informed insights that address emerging issues, potential conflicts, and real-board situations. Readers will learn how to be more effective, more informed, and more diligent directors committed to the shareholders' best interests even if that mindset challenges the interests of current management....

Sport governance has become an increasingly widespread subject for research and teaching in sports studies. This engaging and accessible textbook examines the governance of sport organisations in a changing political, legal, financial and socio-cultural context. It explains how sport organisations are governed, explores the issues and challenges faced by those governing sport today, and looks ahead to how sport can be governed better in the future.

Covering sport at all levels, from community organisations and national governing bodies to international organisations such as the IOC and...

Sport governance has become an increasingly widespread subject for research and teaching in sports studies. This engaging and accessible textbook examines the governance of sport organisations in a changing political, legal, financial and socio-cultural context. It explains how sport organisations are governed, explores the issues and challenges faced by those governing sport today, and looks ahead to how sport can be governed better in the future.

Covering sport at all levels, from community organisations and national governing bodies to international organisations such as the IOC and...

The corporate governance structure of Japan has exhibited a large change from the second half of...

Probably the core characteristic of a bill of lading is that the original bill of lading must be presented at the port of destination for a consignee to be entitled to delivery of the goods and for the carrier to get a good discharge of its delivery obligation by delivering the goods to said consignee. This notion is accepted virtually worldwide, but the more precise content of the "presentation rule" differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Furthermore, and of importance, the legal basis establishing the "presentation rule" differs.

With the technological advances...

Progressive Commercialization of Airline Governance Culture analyses the transition of the airline sector from the not-for-profit nation-bound public utility model towards a profit-oriented globalized industry. It illustrates how legal, political, historical and cultural factors have shaped the corporate governance in the airline sector, and describes how these factors influence economic decisions and performance. The unique feature of the book is that the subject is consequentially discussed from the perspective of airline governance culture. This approach links the examination of legal...

Unternehmer und Geschaftsfuhrer mittelstandischer Unternehmen werden zunehmend mit Fragen zu ethisch-moralischen Grundsatzen, Corporate Social Resposibility und Nachhaltigkeit konfrontiert. Wie sieht ein ethisch korrektes Unternehmen aus? Wie geht man gerecht und zukunftsorientiert mit seinen Mitarbeiter um? Wo ist die Grenze zwischen ehrlichem Marketing und greenwashing ? Ist der ehrbare Kaufmann auch heute noch ein Leitbild? Dies sind nur wenige der Uberlegungen, die taglich aufkommen.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Uberblick uber die Grundsatzlichkeiten des ethischen...

This book offers an original perspective on EU financial law in the area of retail investor protection by conducting comparisons both externally (to international proposals) and internally (among EU law sectors and specific instruments in relation to one another). In so doing, this study represents a valuable addition to the literature on retail investor protection in the EU.