Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society
A Study in Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society traces and accounts for the debates and discussions between law and economics scholars and mainstream legal scholars, management theorists, and economic sociologists. This is done in detail to demonstrate that the shareholder welfare society was built from...
Guaranteed Pure
The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became...
Directors' Decisions and the Law
Promoting Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company. The UK Companies Act 2006 codified directors’ duties for the first time and describes the director as the ‘most likely to promote the success of the company...
The Black O
Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In 1988 several white managers of the Shoney’s restaurant chain protested against the company’s discriminatory hiring practices, including an order to blacken the “O” in “Shoney’s” on minorities’ job applications so that the marked forms could be discarded. When the managers refused...
The Factory in a Garden
A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a...
Global Perspectives on Frameworks for Integrated Reporting
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Organizations rely on annual reports to communicate their value and create a sense of corporate community. Assessment of these communications is integral in determining the amount of relevant information disclosed. Global Perspectives on Frameworks for Integrated Reporting: Emerging Research and Opportunities...
by Kevin Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
If you work in business, the chances are you have fallen under the poisonous spell of business bullsh*t and jargon. Very few of us seem able to avoid 'reaching out', or 'walk the talk', or 'shifting paradigms' or 'think outside the box'. No longer solely the province of management consultants, investors...
Outsourcing the Board
How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this groundbreaking work, Stephen M. Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson change the conversation about corporate governance by examining the origins, roles, and performance of boards with a simple question in mind: why does the law require governance to be delivered through individual board members?...
Employee Participation in Governance
A Legal and Ethical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
The rights of the employee and the themes of employee ownership and participation have been central, recurring themes as the body of Catholic Social Thought has developed. There is now a unified corpus of official Catholic teaching that focuses the resources of moral theology and natural law theory...
Bosch
History of a Global Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Bosch is a company with a rich history. It stands for important trends of the modern world, such as the motorization of transport or the electrification of the household, and was one of the pioneers of globalization. Its founder Robert Bosch was as well known for his liberal views as he was for the...
Independent Directors in Asia
A Historical, Contextual and Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The rise of the independent director in Asia is an issue of global consequence that has been largely overlooked until recently. Less than two decades ago, independent directors were oddities in Asia's boardrooms. Today, they are ubiquitous. Independent Directors in Asia undertakes the first detailed...
The Enlightened Capitalists
Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs...
Opening Strategy
Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Strategy is becoming more 'open' - more transparent and more inclusive. Opening Strategy tells the story of how corporate strategists and strategy consultants have worked since the middle of the last century to open up the strategy process. First strategic planning, then strategic management, and...
International Corporate Public Affairs Management
Politische Kommunikationsnetzwerke Multinationaler Unternehmen
Language: German
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Das Buch erstellt einen analytischen Bezugsrahmen für die Erfassung und Evaluation kommunikativer Einflussbeziehungen von Unternehmen. Bislang mangelte es an perspektivischer Vielfalt, theoretischen Fundierungsmöglichkeiten und geeigneten Instrumenten zur Rekonstruktion und Analyse des komplexen...