Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
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.
Rogue Banking
A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater...
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).
Payday Lending
Global Growth of the High-Cost Credit Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Payday Lending looks at the growth of the high cost credit industry from the early payday lending industry in the early 1990s to its development in the US as a highly profitable industry around the world.
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.