Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment written by Tessa Hebb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative has led to around a third of the world’s financial assets being managed with a commitment to invest in a way that considers environmental, social or governance (ESG) criteria. The responsible investment trend has increased dramatically since the global financial crisis, yet understanding of this field remains at an early stage. This handbook provides an atlas of current practice in the field of responsible investment. With a large global team of expert contributors, the book explores the impact of responsible investment on key financial actors ranging from mainstream asset managers to religious organizations. Offering students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to current scholarship and international structures in the expanding discipline of responsible investment, this handbook is vital reading across the fields of finance, economics and accounting.
Download or read book Droit de la finance alternative written by Jean-Marc Moulin and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La finance est en crise ; mais elle est indispensable à la vie des hommes en société. Cependant, il serait abusif de considérer "la finance" comme un tout homogène. En effet, loin de la finance conventionnelle qui fait la une de l'actualité, il existe une finance dite alternative qui tente de placer et de maintenir l'Homme au centre de son projet et à l'horizon de son ambition. Cet ouvrage, premier du genre, se propose de présenter sous forme d'études réalisées par des spécialistes du droit financier, les manifestations de cette finance alternative, les outils, instruments et techniques juridiques qui existent et qui permettent de concilier finance et humanisme. À travers l'analyse des critères de développement durable ou religieux appliqués à la finance, des monnaies alternatives, du microcrédit, de la notation extra-financière, du mutualisme et du coopératisme en finance, du crowdfunding, des fonds éthiques, du financement associatif, du financement alternatif de l'habitat ou du soutien des collectivités publiques aux entreprises, ce livre fait, en France comme en Espagne, au Royaume-Uni, en Grèce et au Canada, un tour d'horizon complet de ce segment du secteur financier souvent méconnu et qui offre néanmoins aux Hommes de réaliser leurs projets dans la perspective d'un mieux-être collectif. Pour rompre avec l'idée que la finance n'est que spéculation et prédation.
Download or read book A Comparative Look at Regulation of Corporate Tax Avoidance written by Karen B. Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fascinating look at the anti-tax avoidance strategies employed by more than fifteen countries in eastern and western Europe, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and the United States. It surveys the similarities and differences in anti-avoidance regimes and contains detailed chapters for each country surveying the moral and legal dimensions of the problem. The proliferation of tax avoidance schemes in recent years signals the global dimensions of a problem presenting a serious challenge to the effective administration of tax laws. Tax avoidance involves unacceptable manipulation of the law to obtain a tax advantage. These transactions support wasteful behavior in which corporations enter into elaborate, circuitous arrangements solely to minimize tax liability. It frustrates the ability of governments to collect sufficient revenue to provide essential public goods and services. Avoidance of duly enacted provisions (or manipulation to secure tax benefits unintended by the legislature) poses a threat to the effective operation of a free society for the benefit of a small group of members who seek the privilege of shifting their tax burden onto others merely to compete in the world of commerce. In a world in which world treasuries struggle for the resources to battle terrorist threats and to secure a decent standard of living for constituents tax avoidance can bring economies close to the edge of sustainability. As tax avoidance is one of the top concerns of most nations, the importance of this work cannot be overstated.
Download or read book La logistique durable written by MORANA Joëlle and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La mondialisation, la question environnementale et les mutations de la société imposent à chaque entreprise d’être toujours innovante, tant sur le plan technologique qu’organisationnel. La modernisation de la chaîne d’approvisionnement constitue la suite logique de l’évolution de la logistique d’entreprise depuis les années 1950. Cet ouvrage présente les éléments nécessaires à la mise en place d’une logistique durable : - la prise en compte de la dimension économique qui met en exergue les poids et rôle des connexions intra et inter-organisationnelles. C’est la remise en cause des notions de logistique amont, interne, aval, de mutualisation des transports, de prestations logistiques, de traçabilité et de systèmes d’information ; - la dimension environnementale qui s’intéresse à des aspects tels que l’éco-conception, la re-production, la gestion des déchets, la logistique des retours ou encore le transport « vert » ; - la dimension sociale/sociétale qui permet de poser un regard sur les ressources humaines internes et externes. Pour assurer une bonne mesure de la performance, La logistique durable propose l’élaboration d’un tableau de bord logistique.
Download or read book ICT for a Better Life and a Better World written by Youcef Baghdadi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on organizations and society as a whole. Specifically, it examines how such technologies improve our lives and facilitate our work. A main aspect explored is how actors understand the potential of ICTs to support organizational activities and hence, how they adopt and adapt these technologies to achieve their goals. The book collects papers on various areas of organizational strategy, e.g. new business models, competitive strategies, knowledge management and more. The main areas dealt with are new technologies for a better life, innovations for e-government, and technologies enhancing enterprise modeling. In addition, the book addresses how organizations impact society through sustainable development and social responsibility, and how ICTs employ social media networks in the process of value co-creation.
Download or read book Materiality in Institutions written by François-Xavier de Vaujany and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies. Presenting a rich set of theoretical, methodological and epistemological advances on materiality and institutions, it also gives voice to distinctive and diverse perspectives on materiality in institutions, structuring chapters into four major topics: artefacts and objects, digitality and information, space and time, body and embodiment. This book sparks discussion and debate about ontological dimensions of Management & Organization Studies, including post-discursive, visual, phenomenological and material. With a foreword by Professor Thomas B. Lawrence, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Download or read book Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility written by Samuel O. Idowu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008. How have things changed in the practice of CSR? What new opportunities and challenges have arisen? The book reports on an international set of cases and case studies on how CSR is practiced at business and organizations in various countries. It analyzes country-specific and industry-specific issues, as well as general global issues in connection with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The contributions gathered here provide comprehensive information on CSR for both practitioners and researchers around the globe.
Download or read book Finance Reconsidered written by Bernard Paranque and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues the need for a radical break with the methodological individualism that dominates economics, management and finance, asking 'How should we (re)define the concept of value?' and serving as a stepping stone for the rethinking of academic finance.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Economics and Management CIREG 2016 Volume II written by Houcine Berbou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together papers presented at the 3rd Conference of Research in Economics and Management (CIREG) held in Morocco in May 2016. With a focus on the challenges of SMEs and innovative solutions, they highlight the contribution of researchers in the fields of business and management, with all their micro and macro-economic aspects. They shed light on the universal scientific vision of the importance of SMEs with answers relevant to their local context and adapted to their specific national situation. The relevance of SME research lies in its heuristic value of analyzing change, rather than in constructing a category, a particularly useful empirical concept. This third volume is focused on marketing and human resources.
Download or read book Socioecological responsibility and Chinese overseas investments written by Samuel Assembe-Mvondo and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese investment in Africa has increased greatly in recent years. In Cameroon, the years following the last global financial crisis saw a boom in Chinese investments in the rubber industry, in particular in rubber estates belonging to two companies: Sud-Cameroun Hevea SA and GMG HEVECAM. These investments come from Sinochem, one of the largest Chinese state-owned multinationals, and involve the rehabilitation of existing rubber estates, as well as expansion into new areas. Since the initial investment from China, exports of rubber from Cameroon to China increased from almost none to nearly half of total rubber exports in 2011. We conducted research into the nature and extent of Chinas investment in the Cameroonian rubber sector and assessed initial findings through the lens of socially responsible investments (SRI). Overall, the picture shows that the two investments are subject to a number of governance challenges, particularly in relation to land allocations.
Download or read book Board Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility written by S. Boubaker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Choix Solidaires Dans Le March written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the papers discussed at the 2004 Forum on Socially Responsible Consumption and Finance Systems, Public Authorities and Citizens Commitment for Social Cohesion and supplements volume 12 in the series. Published by the Social Cohesion Development Division with the support of the Integrated Project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society"
Download or read book Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility written by Samuel O Idowu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being socially responsible on the part of corporate entities is now no longer an option, it is part of their normal business obligations to all their stakeholders regardless of whether these are primary or secondary stakeholders. Modern societies around the world now expect corporate entities of all shapes and forms to be socially responsible in whatever they do; the “Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility” is a first attempt at bringing together in one book experts' accounts of how corporate entities in twenty independent nations around the world are dealing with the issue of CSR. The world today faces diverse social problems. These become apparent as one moves from one country to the next, interestingly, society now expects corporations to help in finding solutions to these problems. The problem of global warming affects us all; modern corporations can no longer continue to assume that the problem will go away, if nothing is done by them. We can all make a little difference by our actions.
Download or read book Approche de la S curit Par la Coh sion Sociale Propositions Pour Une Nouvelle Gouvernance Socio conomique written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alors que le précédent volume de la collection était plus spécifiquement centré sur les nouveaux rôles de l'Etat dans le contexte de la mondialisation, cet ouvrage examine quelques unes des nombreuses initiatives qui s'inscrivent dans le mouvement citoyen que la société civile développe afin de donner aux décisions économiques un caractère éthique.
Download or read book Corporate Innovation Strategies written by Nacer Gasmi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply the maximization of a companys value over time, undertaken because, in the long run, social and environmental problems ultimately become financial problems. The justification for CSR is therefore associated with representing the nature and role of the company, as well as its purpose. Companies therefore regard CSR as a strategic investment that is part of a proactive, resilient, inclusive approach, based on the creation of shared value. This approach is capable of reducing negative societal impacts of their activities, or inducing positive impacts if they sustain a hybrid culture, all the while improving their competitive advantage. This book presents a theoretical development that analyzes the challenges of CSR strategies based on the creation of shared value. Two case studies are presented, analyzing the different forms of social innovation strategies capable of inducing this shared value creation.
Download or read book Plus intelligent que la m thode de Napol on Hill remettre en question les id es de r ussite du livre Plus intelligent que le diable Volume 14 written by MAX EDITORIAL and published by Max Editorial. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans « Plus intelligent que le diable », Napoléon Hill propose une vision simpliste du succès, l'attribuant uniquement à l'effort et à la volonté individuels. Cette perspective, bien qu'inspirante, ne parvient pas à reconnaître l'ensemble complexe de facteurs qui influencent la trajectoire de chaque individu. Cet ebook vise à démystifier l'idée du succès comme résultat exclusif du mérite individuel, en explorant le rôle de la chance, du contexte social et des opportunités. Chance : un ingrédient sous-estimé La chance, souvent ignorée ou considérée comme une simple coïncidence, est un élément crucial du succès. Les opportunités fortuites, les rencontres inattendues et les événements aléatoires peuvent avoir un impact significatif sur la vie d'une personne. Imaginez un inventeur talentueux qui, par chance, trouve un investisseur prêt à financer son projet. Ou un étudiant qui a accès à un mentor expérimenté. La chance peut être définie comme l'intersection entre la préparation et l'opportunité, et elle ne doit pas être sous-estimée. Le contexte social comme moule du destin Ignorer le contexte social dans l'analyse du succès, c'est nier la réalité des inégalités qui imprègnent notre société. Être né dans une famille aisée, avoir accès à une éducation de qualité et vivre dans un environnement sécuritaire sont des facteurs qui procurent des avantages indéniables. D'un autre côté, grandir dans un contexte de pauvreté, de violence et de manque d'opportunités crée d'immenses obstacles qui peuvent être difficiles à surmonter, même avec de grands efforts individuels. L'erreur du méritocratisme et la nécessité de l'égalité des chances La croyance au méritocratisme , l'idée selon laquelle le succès est le résultat exclusif du mérite individuel, est une erreur qui perpétue les inégalités sociales. Il ignore les disparités dans l'accès aux ressources et aux opportunités qui existent dans la société. Il est nécessaire de reconnaître que les chances de succès ne sont pas égales pour tout le monde et que les politiques publiques promouvant l'égalité des chances sont fondamentales pour construire une société plus juste. Exemples et contrepoints à « Plus intelligent que le diable » Tout au long de l'ebook, des exemples seront présentés d'individus qui ont réussi, mais qui reconnaissent également le rôle de la chance et du contexte social dans leur trajectoire. Nous comparerons ces histoires avec la vision simpliste du « Plus intelligent que le diable », en soulignant les défauts de la perspective méritocratique et la nécessité d'une vision plus globale du succès. Conclusion Le succès ne se limite pas à l'effort individuel et à la volonté. La chance, le contexte social et les opportunités jouent un rôle fondamental dans la trajectoire de chacun. Il est nécessaire de reconnaître les inégalités sociales et de défendre des politiques publiques qui favorisent l'égalité des chances pour construire une société plus juste et équitable. Cet ebook se veut une invitation à une réflexion critique sur la nature du succès. En démystifiant l'erreur du méritocratisme et en reconnaissant l'importance de la chance et du contexte social, nous espérons contribuer à la construction d'une société plus juste et plus inclusive. En savoir beaucoup plus...
