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Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
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Dirty gold :how activism transformed the jewelry industry
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has fund…
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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The econometrics of corporate governance studies
A vast theoretical and empirical literature in corporate finance considers the interrelationships of corporate governance, takeovers, management turnover, corporate performance, corporate capital structure, and corporate ownership structure. Most of the studies look at two variables at a time. In this book, Sanjai Bhagat and Richard Jefferis argue that from an econometric viewpoint, the proper …
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- 9780262268424
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- 1 online resource (x, 114 pages)
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When things don't fall apart :global financial governance and developmental f…
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers…
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- 9780262344043
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 372 pages)
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The small worlds of corporate governance
The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom and who will stand by whom in times of crisis. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks on corporate behaviour and governance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301572
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 388 pages) :illustrations
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Government's place in the market
In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295987
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- 1 online resource (83 pages).
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Privacy on the ground : driving corporate behavior in the United States and E…
"Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter regulation -- to put …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages).
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Management :inventing and delivering its future
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
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- 9780262277334
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) :illustrations
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Restoring trust in American business
"This book examines the failure of "gatekeepers"--Corporate directors, regulators, auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and business journalists - to stand between corporate misconduct and the public interest. Prominent scholars and corporate leaders argue that market pressures have made gatekeepers too focused on financial self-interest at the expense of the public good. Stronger professiona…
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- 9780262278560
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The Origin of the Capitalist Firm
The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual claim to entrepreneurs can provide a better overall incentive; a hidden information model demonstrates th…
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