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Book The Network Organization

Download or read book The Network Organization written by Anna Moretti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective. The book assumes a novel theoretical angle based on the interpretation of networks as multiple systems, and advances the theory in the realm of network effectiveness and failure. Composed of two parts, theoretical and empirical, The Network Organization clarifies the literature on networks, offering a systematic review, and provides a new perspective on their integration with other streams of research focusing on under-studied issues such as agency, micro-dynamics, and network effectiveness. The second part proposes the analysis of the tourism destination of Venice, with a specific focus on the network between the Venice Film Festival, the hospitality system, and the local institutions. By exploring the pervasion of networks in modern social and economic life, this book will be valuable to students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.

Book Corporate Governance Matters

Download or read book Corporate Governance Matters written by David Larcker and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Governance Matters gives corporate board members, officers, directors, and other stakeholders the full spectrum of knowledge they need to implement and sustain superior governance. Authored by two leading experts, this comprehensive reference thoroughly addresses every component of governance. The authors carefully synthesize current academic and professional research, summarizing what is known, what is unknown, and where the evidence remains inconclusive. Along the way, they illuminate many key topics overlooked in previous books on the subject. Coverage includes: International corporate governance. Compensation, equity ownership, incentives, and the labor market for CEOs. Optimal board structure, tradeoffs, and consequences. Governance, organizational strategy, business models, and risk management. Succession planning. Financial reporting and external audit. The market for corporate control. Roles of institutional and activist shareholders. Governance ratings. The authors offer models and frameworks demonstrating how the components of governance fit together, with concrete examples illustrating key points. Throughout, their balanced approach is focused strictly on two goals: to “get the story straight,” and to provide useful tools for making better, more informed decisions.

Book Corporate Governance and Leadership

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Leadership written by Monique Cikaliuk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element deals with leadership and governance of corporations from the point of view of the board. We expand our understanding of board leadership by focusing on the modern company as a legal person comprised of a capital fund and the relationships among directors, shareholders, management and stakeholders. We propose a model which integrates insights from the fields of leadership and corporate governance and establishes a theoretical link illustrated by empirical findings in three intersections: team leadership on the board, the chair's leadership of the board, and strategic leadership by the board. We maintain this integrative model provides a powerful means to further an understanding of the board as the nexus of leadership and governance. We close this Element by identifying the new research directions that our integrative model opens up. We also identify the implications for practice for those who either serve on boards or provide support to them.

Book Boards  Governance and Value Creation

Download or read book Boards Governance and Value Creation written by Morten Huse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of boards in corporate governance? How should they be structured in order to maximize value creation? This 2007 book looks at the role of boards in a variety of different countries and contexts, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. It explores the working style of boards and how they can best achieve their task expectations. Board effectiveness and value creation are shown to be the results of interactions between owners, managers, board members and other actors. Board behaviour is thus seen to be a result of strategizing, norms, board leadership, and the decision-making culture within the boardroom. Combining value creation, behavioural and ethical approaches to the study of boards, this work offers a systematic framework which will be of value to graduate students and researchers in the field of corporate social responsibility and business ethics.

Book ICMLG2013 Proceedings of the International Conference on Management  Leadership and Governance

Download or read book ICMLG2013 Proceedings of the International Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Governance Structures of Chinese Firms

Download or read book The Governance Structures of Chinese Firms written by Chun Liao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s extraordinary economic growth is inspiring research from a wide spectrum of fields to explain the phenomenon: What are the primary drivers of China’s economic growth? Can it be sustained? Can the Chinese business model be emulated by other countries? What long-term effects will China’s economic growth have on the global economy? In this volume, Chun Liao explores these issues in the context of firms’ governance structures, arguing that China’s dual business system of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises is uniquely suited to the challenges of economic development in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, China’s state-owned enterprises are characterized by state coordination, bank financing, insulation from the stock market fluctuations, and incremental productivity-enhancing innovations, which are similar to the firms in the business systems of coordinated market economies (like Germany and Japan). On the other hand, China’s private enterprises are characterized by private (often family) ownership, hard budget constraints, profit maximization, and more risky radical innovation, which are similar to the firms in the business systems of liberal market economies (like the US and the UK). Based on the state controlling shareholding in the state sector, the boundary between the state sector business system and private sector business system is clear. This dual type system is contrasted with those in liberal market economies and those in coordinated market economies, where only one type system dominates. Drawing from empirical data and industry analysis over the past 15 years, Liao provides unparalleled access to the dynamics of the Chinese economy, including ownership structure, management design, labor-management relations, business infrastructure, capitalization (including role of banks and financial institutions, private investment, and FDI) in both the public and private sectors. In the process, she analyzes both opportunities and challenges that result from China’s dual business system, particularly in regard to innovation, core competitiveness, and sustainable growth in both state strategic technology-based industries and private high technology industries . The result is an approach that sheds new light on China’s economic performance and its rise as a player on the international stage.

Book Strategic Decisions

Download or read book Strategic Decisions written by Vassilis Papadakis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years, there has been growing interest in the process of strategic decision-making among both managers and researchers. Strategic decisions are important for five main reasons: They are large-scale, risky and hard to reverse; they are a bridge between deliberate and emerging strategies; they can be a major source of organizational learning; they play an important part in the development of individual managers and they cut accross functions and academic disciplines. Strategic Decisions summarizes the current state of the art in research on strategic decision-making, with chapters prepared by leading strategy researchers. The editors also present implications for current application and proposed directions for future research.

Book Corporate Governance and Firm Organization

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Firm Organization written by Anna Grandori and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scandals involving large firms, in the USA and elsewhere, have brought into focus the role and conduct of major multinationals. This text looks at issues surrounding the organisation of such companies, and the ways in which it impacts on corporate governance.

Book The SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance written by Thomas Clarke and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent and sustained interest in corporate governance is unprecedented, with the connections between corporate governance and economic performance being emphasized by the World Bank, the IMF and others in the global economic community. In this timely and definitive intellectual analysis of a key discipline, The SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance offers a critical overview of the key themes, theoretical controversies, current research and emerging concepts that frame the field. Consisting of original substantive chapters by leading international scholars, and examining corporate governance from an inter-disciplinary basis, the text highlights how governance issues are critical to the formation, growth, financing, structural development, and strategic direction of companies and how corporate governance institutions in turn influence the innovation and development of industrial and economic systems globally. Comprehensive, authoritative and presented in a highly-accessible framework, this Handbook is a significant resource to those with an interest in understanding this important emerging field.

Book Strategy  Structure and Corporate Governance

Download or read book Strategy Structure and Corporate Governance written by Nabyla Daidj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the 2000s, important changes in external environments have affected the corporate governance practices of firms all around the world. The corporate governance structure in each country develops in response to country-specific factors and conditions. Firms are currently engaged in a variety of dynamic business relationships such as business networks, strategic alliances, and conglomerates especially in high technology sectors. Strategy, Structure and Corporate Governance by Nabyla Daidj, proposes to analyze the main trends and drivers of change in corporate governance of several kinds of organizations: - Large conglomerates. The development of large and complex conglomerate organizations have played an important role in the economy in Japan but also in other countries such as Korea with chaebols, which can be defined as closely intertwined industrial groupings. - Inter-firms networks (districts, clusters etc.); and, - 'Recent' forms of inter-firms networks (business ecosystems). The author examines several case studies and shows how shifts in markets and global competition are reconfiguring transactions within these organizations and are impacting corporate governance systems.

Book An International Comparison of Corporate Governance Models

Download or read book An International Comparison of Corporate Governance Models written by Gregory Francesco Maassen and published by Gregory Maassen. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2018  Part 3

Download or read book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2018 Part 3 written by S. Rao Vallabhaneni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILEY CIAexcel EXAM REVIEW 2018 THE SELF-STUDY SUPPORT YOU NEED TO PASS THE CIA EXAM Part 3: Internal Audit Knowledge Elements Provides comprehensive coverage based on the exam syllabus, along with multiple-choice practice questions with answers and explanations Deals with governance and business ethics, risk management, information technology, and the global business environment Features a glossary of CIA Exam terms—good source for candidates preparing for and answering the exam questions Assists the CIA Exam candidate in successfully preparing for the exam Based on the CIA body of knowledge developed by The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2018 learning system provides a student-focused and learning-oriented experience for CIA candidates. Passing the CIA Exam on your first attempt is possible. We'd like to help. Feature section examines the topics of Governance and Business Ethics, Risk Management, Organizational Structure and Business Processes and Risks, Communications, Management and Leadership Principles, IT and Business Continuity, Financial Management, and Global Business Environment

Book The SAGE Handbook of Family Business

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Family Business written by Leif Melin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades. Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field′s future. The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field. Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies Part II: Major issues in family business studies Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies Part V: Methods in use in family business studies Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.

Book Board Dynamics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Stiles
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-08-12
  • ISBN : 1108985408
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Board Dynamics written by Philip Stiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boards of directors are at the apex of organisational decision-making and so are central in ensuring effective corporate governance. But boards are under increasing scrutiny due to the continuing prevalence of scandals and failures. Boards have been viewed as set up to fail because the demands placed upon them cannot effectively be delivered. In this Element, I examine this tension and look at the board as a working group, one which has an input, a process and an output. Through looking at the board as a group, the dynamics of how boards, and the potential for effective and ineffective operation, are highlighted. I conclude with outlining how the future of board dynamics may evolve.

Book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2017

Download or read book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2017 written by S. Rao Vallabhaneni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILEY CIAexcel EXAM REVIEW 2017 THE SELF-STUDY SUPPORT YOU NEED TO PASS THE CIA EXAM Part 3: Internal Audit Knowledge Elements Provides comprehensive coverage based on the exam syllabus, along with multiple-choice practice questions with answers and explanations Deals with governance and business ethics, risk management, information technology, and the global business environment Features a glossary of CIA Exam terms—good source for candidates preparing for and answering the exam questions Assists the CIA Exam candidate in successfully preparing for the exam Based on the CIA body of knowledge developed by The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2017 learning system provides a student-focused and learning-oriented experience for CIA candidates. Passing the CIA Exam on your first attempt is possible. We'd like to help. Feature section examines the topics of Governance and Business Ethics, Risk Management, Organizational Structure and Business Processes and Risks, Communications, Management and Leadership Principles, IT and Business Continuity, Financial Management, and Global Business Environment

Book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2015  Part 3

Download or read book Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2015 Part 3 written by S. Rao Vallabhaneni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master internal audit knowledge elements for the CIA exam Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2015: Part 3, Internal Audit Knowledge Elements is a comprehensive yet approachable reference that prepares you for the third part of the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination. Brimming with essential concepts and practice test questions, this test prep resource is the most comprehensive of its kind on the market. With each page you will explore key subject areas, including business processes, financial accounting and finance, managerial accounting, regulatory, legal, and economics, and information technology. All of these subject areas are expertly tied to the topic of internal audit knowledge elements, and all ideas—both fundamental and complex—are presented in an easy-to-read yet thorough manner. Holding the designation of CIA will take your career to the next level, as passing the CIA exam speaks volumes about your professional skills and expertise. Leveraging the right study materials when preparing for the CIA exam is critical, as the topics that may be covered on the test are many in number. This resource presents these topics from a student's perspective, providing the details you need to master challenging concepts and practices. Access comprehensive preparation materials for the third part of the CIA exam Explore essential internal audit knowledge elements, including key concepts and practices Answer hundreds of practice test questions to gauge your progress and focus your study sessions Improve your proficiency, understanding, and awareness of key concepts tested by the CIA examination Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2015: Part 3, Internal Audit Knowledge Elements is an invaluable resource for internal auditors, chief audit executives, audit managers, and staff members who are pursuing the CIA designation.

Book ECMLG 2016   Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Management  Leadership and Governance

Download or read book ECMLG 2016 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance