Corporate category: 1876 books
by Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Once a main-street shopfront dispensing tonics and extracts, Morris & Dickson Co. now competes with major players in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. Since 1841 presents an in-depth case study of a family business that has weathered wars, fires, recessions, and the sudden death of four chief...
Minority Shareholders
Law, Practice, and Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This well-established and authoritative work is the most detailed reference source on the law relating to minority shareholders. As more and more legal emphasis is put on corporate governance, and as the influence of shareholder activism continues to grow, practitioners increasingly need a source...
by Michael J. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation not to commit atrocities or human rights...
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures—some more legal...
Company Directors
Duties, Liabilities, and Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This is a new edition of the established authority on the law relating to directors of companies incorporated under the UK Companies Acts. The new edition features all important developments in the law including the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 which improves transparency (including...
by Brandt Brereton, Jared Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This book is largely written in a Frequently Asked Question and Answer format augmented by the historical context for Employee Stock Ownership Plan law, basic corporate finance mathematics used in ESOPs and also has a section of “plays” i.e. common business scenarios with text and illustrations showing...
by Ser-Huang Poon
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
For PhD finance courses in business schools, there is equal emphasis placed on mathematical rigour as well as economic reasoning. Advanced Finance Theories provides modern treatments to five key areas of finance theories in Merton's collection of continuous time work, viz. portfolio selection and...
Risk Culture
A Practical Guide to Building and Strengthening the Fabric of Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Risk Culture is a practical volume devoted to the qualitative aspects of risk management, including those that should be firmly embedded in the corporate culture. Through descriptions, examples and case studies, the book analyzes weak and strong cultures and proposes a series of structural and behavioral actions to strengthen a company's culture.
by Itzhak Venezia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This volume presents lecture notes for a course in behavioral finance, most suitable for MBA students, but also adaptable for a PhD class. These lecture notes are based on the author's experience in teaching behavioral finance classes at Bocconi University (at the PhD level) and at the Academic College...
Re-Imagining Offshore Finance
Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar strengths...
Allianz
The Company History 1890-2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On February 5, 1890, the First District Royal Court of Prussia in Berlin entered a new enter prise into the corporate trade register: the „Allianz Versicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft“. 125 years later, Allianz is one of the largest international financial services prividers. This book tells the...
A New Brand of Business
Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Charles Coolidge Parlin was considered by many to be the founder of market research. Working for the dominant Curtis Publishing Company, he revolutionized the industry by providing added value to advertisers through information about the racial, ethnic, and regional biases of readers and consumers....
The Derivative Action in Asia
A Comparative and Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This in-depth comparative examination of the derivative action in Asia provides a framework for analysing its function, history and practical application and examines in detail how derivative actions law works in practice in seven important Asian jurisdictions (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea,...
Transmission Channels of Financial Shocks to Stock, Bond, and Asset-Backed Markets
An Empirical Model
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Researchers, policymakers and commentators have long debated the patterns through which adverse shocks in a few markets may quickly spread to a range of apparently disconnected financial markets causing widespread losses and turmoil. This book uses modern linear and non-linear econometric methods...