Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance

Presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. This book covers concepts such as: board leadership and structure, boardroom decision-making, board task performance, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation boards in small and medium-sized firms, board diversity and women directors.

Exploring the reasons behind corporate misbehaviour, this book answers the question of whether reforms are sufficient to prevent scandals from occurring. This book sheds light on questions regarding the feasibility of independence and impartiality of boards of directors and external auditors as monitors and gatekeepers in corporate governance.

Explores several national corporate governance reform experiences from around the world and offers an explanatory theory with regard to national systems of corporate governance. This book also underlines corporate governance as a management tool and principle.

An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed. This book uses a systemic approach to develop a global picture of the theoretical foundations of corporate governance, mainly by putting the emphasis on its double dimension: internal and external.

A work on the green transformation of business in major sectors including government, finance, energy, and retail. It explores different solutions to sustainability including ethical approaches, alternative environmental strategies, corporate responsibility, and carbon reductions.

Aimed at academics, post-graduate students in business and management, reflective practitioners, standards or policy developers, those in governance roles and others in need of a detailed knowledge of the spectrum of project related governance in organizations, this book will help develop a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the subject, their interaction, and implications for implementation. This allows for understanding and developing of both generic and idiosyncratic governance structures, such as those needed in project-based organizations.

Enhancing Board Effectiveness seeks to examine the conceptualization and role of the board in a variety of contexts and articulate solutions for improving the effectiveness of the board.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been developed into a crucial corporate and organizational issue around the world. It has been incorporated within various sectors, countries and includes many types of activities and dimensions.

This book, including contributions from world recognized experts in the sphere of corporate governance presents a number of international corporate governance systems; comparing and contrasting the experiences of several countries across the world.

Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability offers a concise and definitive book on the green transformation of business. The book examines the dramatic changes in business values and strategies that have taken place in recent years in response to the sustainability imperative. Government, industry, academic and science leaders spell out the green future for business.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has developed into a crucial corporate and organizational issue around the world. It has been incorporated into various sectors and countries, and includes many types of activities and dimensions. It is a common notion that organizations are more inclined today to broaden and shift their performance focus from short-term goals towards long-term social, environmental, and value-added perspectives.Under the framework of corporate governance, organizations and companies are motivated to promote fairness, transparency, ethics, and accountability in their transactions, while concurrently maintaining enhanced standards of governance. This means that organizations and corporations must align their activities with community aspirations which is an issue falling within the sphere of CSR. Increased attention has been placed on the organizations regarding their approach towards the needs of various stakeholders. However, a crucial issue that this book attempts to address is the association, intersection, and inter-relationship between governance and CSR within the EU region, which are not adequately established in the existing literature. The book will show that governance and CSR are highly connected. With the purpose of studying the association of CSR with legal, managerial and empirical aspects of governance in corporations and not-for-profit organizations, in various sectors of the economy, the book also intends to provide useful policy implications, as well as to offer constructive directions for future research.This book will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students in the fields of CRS and governance, organizational theory, marketing management, business ethics and human resource management.