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Financial Accounting: Development Paths and Alignment to Management Accountin…
This book presents empirical evidence on the convergence of financial and management accounting in the Italian context. The author provides an overview of the development paths of financial accounting including its evolution, role of non-financial, forward looking and voluntary disclosures, and internal determinants such as corporate governance and business culture. The author uses the premises…
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- 978-3-319-18723-5
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- IX, 143
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- Contributions to Management Science
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Finance-Led Capitalism
In Finance-Led Capitalism , bestselling author and economist Robert Guttmann provides a new conceptual framework to assess the dominate role of modern finance within the workings of our contemporary economic system. This lively and provocative read will challenge some of the core beliefs about modern finance and the world economy.
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- 978-1-137-52989-3
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- V, 268
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The International Dimensions of Democratization in Egypt
This book purports to examine the international dimensions of the democratization process in Egypt in the post Cold War era; a theme which acquired significance at the academic and policy-oriented levels in light of the growing internationalization of reform arrangements in the Arab world in post 9/11 and the greater involvement of external powers in Arab politics following the Arab Spring upri…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-16700-8
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- XVI, 179, 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
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The International Criminal Court and the End of Impunity in Kenya
The period immediately following Kenya's 2007 presidential election left a shocking trail of atrocities, with over 1,000 people dead and countless thousands left victimised and displaced. In response, the International Criminal Court began a series of investigations and trials, promising no impunity for even the highest ranking perpetrators. When the country's president and vice-president were …
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- 978-3-319-10729-5
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- XV, 267, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Springer Series in Transitional Justice
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The Influence of Human Rights on International Law
This volume discusses the impact of human rights law on other fields of international law. Does international human rights law modify other fields of international law? Contributions focus on possible spillover effects of human rights on international economic or international criminal law. Does international human rights law have a streamlining effect on international law as a whole? This migh…
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- 978-3-319-12021-8
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- XI, 248
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- Springer Cham
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The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more int…
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- 978-3-319-11767-6
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- X, 252
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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The Quest to Cyber Superiority
Further, the book demonstrates how a nation’s technological advancement may not necessarily lead to cyber-superiority. It covers cybersecurity issues with regard to conflicts that shape relationships between major economies, and explains how attempts to secure the cyber domain have been hampered by the lack of an international consensus on key issues and concepts. The book also reveals how so…
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- 978-3-319-40554-4
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- XXIV, 240
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The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
This work is an assessment of how to manage risk in property transactions in the context of the move from paper-based to electronic conveyancing (eConveyancing). In particular the focus is on risks that impact on title registration, and the security, protection or lack thereof that this registration offers to land owners, third parties and property claimants. The impact is the extent to which a…
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- 978-3-319-10341-9
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- XV, 316, 7 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
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The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts
This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts. Anti-corruption is one of the preeminent issues in the modern global commercial order and is tackled with the help of criminal law and contract law in different ways in different countries. The reports included in this volume, from very diverse part…
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- 978-3-319-19054-9
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- XIV, 446, 1 b/w illustrations
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- Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
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