Corporate Finance category: 1651 books

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Corporate Conspiracies

How Wall Street Took Over Washington

by Richard Belzer, David Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

From New York Times–bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America. Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by American corporations. The bestselling...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

This book is the first of its kind in focusing on the enforcement of corporate and securities laws, both public and private, a relatively understudied but critically important issue for the development and health of global capital markets. The book has a special focus on the young system coming into...
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Creating Corporate Sustainability

Gender as an Agent for Change

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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

This compelling volume considers three significant modern developments: the ever-changing role of women in society; a significant and growing dissatisfaction with current dominant understandings of corporate governance, corporate law and corporate theory; and the increasing concern to establish sustainable...
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Unstoppable

The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010

The economic importance of the non-profit sector is growing rapidly in the USA and Europe. However, the law has not kept abreast with its development. The European Court of Justice has extended certain freedoms of the EC Treaty to non-profit organisations, and more case law is expected to follow in...
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Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Governance

Legal Aspects, Practices and Future Directions

by Shuangge Wen
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Rising defaults in the financial market in 2007, the current widespread economic recession and debt crisis have added impetus to existing doubts about companies’ governance, and cast new light on future trends in shareholder-oriented corporate practice. Taking account of these developments in the...
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Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity

Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity

by Aaron A. Dhir
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The lack of gender parity in the governance of business corporations has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board...
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by James M. Anderson, Ivan Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

This report addresses the use of criminal sanctions to control corporate behavior—prosecutions both of corporations and of employees for actions taken on corporations’ behalf. The authors describe the current state of the use of criminal sanctions in controlling corporate behavior, describe how...
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Reset

Business and Society in the New Social Landscape

by James Rubin, Barie Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

As consumers, our access to—and appetite for—information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting as 24/7 auditors...
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Legal Approaches and Corporate Social Responsibility

Towards a Llewellyn’s Law-Jobs Approach

by Adaeze Okoye
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

From the late 20th Century, a catalogue of high profile disasters and controversies has drawn attention to the changing relationship between corporations and society. This is taking place against the context of globalisation and this change has become the driving force for demands that corporations...
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The Changing Nature of Corporate Social Responsibility

CSR and Development – The Case of Mauritius

by Renginee Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increasingly been promoted as an important mechanism for furthering economic and social development goals in developing countries. In such an optimistic climate, questions arise as to whether CSR can bear the weight of the increasing expectations being heaped...
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by Rosa Chun, Rui Da Silva, Gary Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005

This unique book written by four world leaders in reputation research, presents the latest cutting-edge thinking on organizational improvement. It covers media management, crisis management, the use of logos and other aspects of corporate identity, and argues the case for reputation management as...
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The Art of Corporate Success

The Story of Schlumberger

by Ken Auletta
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

A revealing portrait of one of the world’s finest, yet most opaque, companies—and the quiet genius who made it thrive Ken Auletta set out to locate one of the world’s most prosperous businesses and explain its formula for success. He searched for an enterprise with a vivid chief executive...
Cover of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
by Jane Gleeson-White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers...
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