Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
by Lorraine Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century is a wide ranging and ambitious study of why corporate governance is the shape that it is, and how it can be better. The book sets out the emergence of shareholder primacy orientated corporate governance using a study of historical developments...
Comparative Corporate Governance
A Functional and International Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them....
Icarus in the Boardroom
The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them...
Shareholder Primacy and Global Business
Re-clothing the EU Corporate Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
In the context of growing public interest in sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not brought about the expected improvement in terms of sustainable business. Self-regulation has been unable to provide appropriate answers for unsustainable business frameworks, despite empirical...
by Andrew Keay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Within corporate governance the accountability of the board of directors is identified as a major issue by governments, international bodies, professional associations and academic literature. Boards are given significant power in companies, and as a consequence it is argued that they should be...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The events that began with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and Adelphia and continued into the financial crisis of 2008 teach us an important lesson: corporate governance matters. Although it is widely acknowledged that good corporate governance is a linchpin of good corporate performance,...
Corporate Boards in Law and Practice
A Comparative Analysis in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules on the boards considerable differences remain. These differences depend partly on shareholder...
Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
Perspectives on Anti-Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) means that companies must consider multi-stakeholder interests as well as the social, political, economic, environmental and developmental impact of their actions. However, the pursuit of profits by multinational corporations has led...
The Power of Corporate Networks
A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on individual countries or particular time periods, however, making fruitful comparisons over longer periods...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, based on testimony he delivered before Congress, Ralph Nader describes how corporations are picking our pockets, and what we can do to stop them.
While the United States continues to experience unprecedented cuts in social service programs and millions of Americans...
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
Labor’s Last Best Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’...
by Natalia Yakovleva
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Based on the concept of corporate social responsibility, this book analyses modern approaches adopted by mining companies that could minimise negative impacts of mining and enhance positive benefits to corporate stakeholders. Using a case study of two mining sectors (gold and diamond mining) the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. How will global economic integration affect the different systems of corporate ownership and governance? Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined to become the template for a converging global corporate governance...
Corporate Friction
How Corporate Law Impedes American Progress and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Corporate law in the United States requires directors to manage firms in the interests of shareholders, which means never sacrificing profits in service of other stakeholders or interests. In this timely, groundbreaking book, David Yosifon argues that this rule of 'shareholder primacy' is logically,...