Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
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.
Entrepreneurial Excellence in the Knowledge Economy
Intellectual Capital Benchmarking Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how to achieve entrepreneurial excellence in the knowledge economy and offers them ICBS - a methodology for strategy check-up of organizations in the knowledge economy context.
The Future of Leadership Development
Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The current financial crisis highlights the need to rethink business leadership and the role of business schools in helping firms develop the leaders of the future. This book brings together the perspectives of deans of top international business schools, and the views of CEOs and senior business leaders.
Boards Under Crisis
Board action under pressure
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
An innovative, research-based review of how boards make decisions during crises – designed to offer insight and accessible theories for invested senior management facing crises situations. This book gathers recent and historical research on boardroom decision making from the field and business literature to review crises, TMT and decision making.
Boardroom Secrets
Corporate Governance for Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Boardroom Secrets focuses on the, processes, and behaviours for a board of directors to ensure good governance. The book focuses on behavioral aspects of governance such as how to evaluate and process information provided to the board, how to critically question without de-motivating, and how to balance interests of different stakeholders.
Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis
A Survey on Italian SMEs
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book focuses on the relationship between business strategy and competition among Italian SMEs in the aftermath of the economic crisis. First examining business strategy and competitive advantage in a broader sense, Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis goes on to analyse...
Integrated Reporting
A New Accounting Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book is a timely addition to the fast-growing international debate on Integrated Reporting, which offers a holistic view of the evolution and practice of Integrated Reporting. The book covers the determinants and consequences of Integrated Reporting, as well as examining some of the most relevant...
Global Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice for Sustainable Economic Development
General Principles and Approaches in the UAE
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
How an economy handles financial and business distress has a major impact on confidence in business, the availability of investment, the cost of credit, and economic growth. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 and its aftermath was a catalyst to legal reform in the field of bankruptcy and restructuring...
by J. Floreani, M. Polato
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This book is an economic analysis of the stock exchange industry. The authors draw on theories from micro- and industrial economics to provide a detailed analysis of the industry structure, the strategic behaviour of key participants and the performance of stock exchanges.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics.
Global Governance and Regulatory Failure
The Political Economy of Banking
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The author provides a theoretical framework of the global political economy of banking regulation and analyses the policies and politics of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He demonstrates how global governance has contributed to the onset of the Great Recession and continues to increase the likelihood of future global financial crises.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This volume introduces readers to recent developments in the fields of board of directors and corporate social responsibility. It also provides new insights and perspectives on corporate governance practices in different countries.