Business Strategy and Sustainability
Business Strategy and Sustainability

Author: Guler Aras

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1780527365

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There are many aspects of sustainability which might be considered to reflect Brundtland's three pillars of economic, environmental and social sustainability. Others of course have different definitions which include such things as governance or supply chain management. This title addresses this debate.

A Primer on Corporate Governance
A Primer on Corporate Governance

Author: Cornelis A. de Kluyver

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1606490052

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This book is a primer on corporate governance for executives. It is designed to guide you to become an effective participant by discussing corporate governance from both a macro- and micro-perspective. Historical data and examples including the recent scandals that have torn the fabric of capitalism pave a pathway to the principal challenges facing today's boards, and how to successfully manage them. This book is your guide; using well-known examples throughout history to illustrate the key points you need to succeed. It is not a bashing of corporate Americas.

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation
Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

Author: Iván Blanco

Publisher: Ed. Universidad de Cantabria

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 8481028770

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Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.

Three Essays on the Times and Work of Tomás de Mercado
Three Essays on the Times and Work of Tomás de Mercado

Author: Francisco Gómez Camacho

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 8490129002

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The purpose of this edition is to provide an English translation of three essays about Tomás de Mercado’s book, Deals and Contracts of Merchants and Traders. This translation has been made from the 1569 edition of the book published in Salamanca. The book was later the object of new editions and it was expanded by two more chapters, with an Italian translation appearing in 1571. However, an English edition had never been made before. The 1569 edition is composed of four Books: the first dedicated to merchants and their contracts, the second to currency and loans, the third to usury and the fourth to the question of the obligation of restitution when a reprehensible action is committed.

Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance

Author: R. I. Tricker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1351751239

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This title was first published in 2000: The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The topics covered in this volume include the purpose of the corporation, the board of directors, the role of shareholders, and more contemporary developments like hedge fund activism, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the development of corporate governance law in what perhaps will become the dominant world economy over the next century, China. The editor has written an introductory essay which briefly describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The papers which have been selected present what the editor believes to be some of the best and most representative studies of the subjects covered. As a result the volume offers a rounded view of the contemporary state of the some of the dominant issues in corporate governance.

Compliance & Conviction
Compliance & Conviction

Author: Curtis J. Crawford

Publisher: XCEO, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780976901914

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Examines the complexities of corporate governance, addressing how challenges that affect corporate directors also impact stakeholders.