Palgrave Macmillan: 11161 books
The Value Imperative
Harvesting Value from Your IT Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures...
by G. Tily
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book argues that Keynesian economists have betrayed Keynes' theory and policy conclusions, and that the world has been misled about those policies. Keynesians have focused attention on policies for dealing with effects of economic failure as they arise, whereas Keynes was concerned with the cause and then the prevention of economic failure.
by D. Capocci
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
One-stop-guide to the hedge fund industry, investment and trading strategies adopted by hedge funds and the industry's regulation. For anyone with an interest in investing or managing funds, it presents everything practitioners need to know to understand these investment vehicles from their theoretical underpinnings, to how they work in practice.
by R. Girasa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Corporate Governance and Finance Law is designed to educate students, researchers, and practitioners on the legal aspects of corporate financial markets within the United States, the Eurozone, and China.
The Family Business Guide
Everything You Need to Know to Manage Your Business from Legal Planning to Business Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
A practical guide to best and worst practices for family businesses - from drawing up incorporation documents to succession planning to selling the business. The book also includes examples from actual court cases and presents these lessons in an accessible manner. Sample legal agreements are included which help to avoid some of the major risks to the family business.
by Felix I. Lessambo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book covers a broad range of the most challenging topics in US international taxation laws before breaking into separate discussions of the issues related to both inbound and outbound taxes. Real examples and selected seminal cases are analysed at the end of each chapter to simplify even the...
Global Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice for Sustainable Economic Development
International Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a comparative study of international practices in bankruptcy law, providing perspectives from a variety of specialisms including practitioners, lawyers, bankers, accountants and judges from the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Singapore.
Sharing Profits
The Ethics of Remuneration, Tax and Shareholder Returns
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Any decision by a company regarding the use of profits to pay tax, remuneration or shareholder returns has ethical implications. Sharing Profits reviews high-profile ethical issues facing companies in how profits are used, and proposes a framework for understanding the ethical implications of decisions.
Strategy, Value and Risk
A Guide to Advanced Financial Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Updated and revised, the third edition frames strategy as delivering firm value in both the short and long term while maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. These issues are examined through industry evolution, the rise of the information economy, financial analysis, corporate and quantitative finance, and risk management concepts.
Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers
An Empirical Study of Defense Lawyers and White-Collar Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers examines the role of lawyers in court cases involving white-collar crimes, revealing fresh insights into the relationship between a lawyer's stature and a case's potential verdict.
From Saviour to Guarantor
EU Member States’ Economic Intervention During the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
State guarantees commonly function as financial panacea, allowing states to consolidate banking systems and create intergovernmental funds. Rules surrounding state guarantees were relaxed during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, allowing states to use them for financing small and medium-sized enterprises...
by Diana Leat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book discusses a series of related but independent challenges faced by philanthropic foundations, drawing on international, contemporary and historical data. Throughout the world, private philanthropic foundations spend huge sums of money for public good while the media, policy-makers and the...
Public Sector Accounting and Auditing in Europe
The Challenge of Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The book provides an overview of the governmental accounting status quo in Europe by analysing the public sector accounting, budgeting and auditing systems in fourteen European countries. IT sheds light on the challenges faced by European countries as they move towards adoption of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).
by S. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This book examines the cognitive, social and behavioural skills that leaders need to have within their capability portfolio and how this can be applied to drive a diversity agenda in their organizations. The book presents LEAD³ - an analytical tool that offers an integrated change management process to build leadership and diversity capability.