E-CF the European E-Competence Framework
Corporate Social Responsibility and Company Performance
by Mohammed Nizamuddin
Integral Community Enterprise in Africa (Transformation and Innovation)
by Anselm Adodo
At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed status. Yet the more the aid poured in, the poorer African countries became. The devastating effec...
Deliver exceptional results from your IT department using Agile approaches. Agile methodologies and practices have been proven over the past two decades to increase the relevance, quality, flexibility and business value of software solutions. The IT departments of many large and successful organizations (including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and BT) have all delivered productivity gains through the adoption of Agile approaches. It worked for them, but will it work for you? Everything you want to k...
Handbook of Research on Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship
by Jonas Gabrielsson
Issues and challenges surrounding corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms remain relatively unexamined. The Handbook of Research on Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship brings together leading academic experts within their specific fields to examine the most important issues surrounding corporate governance in various entrepreneurial settings, including start-ups, owner-managed firms, fast-growing firms and IPOs. The Handbook also considers how corporate governance and board leadershi...
The Dark Side 2
This second collection of outstanding shortlisted contributions from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Interest Group of the Academy of Management (AOM) Dark Side" case-writing competition continues to go where other business case studies fear to tread. There are very many case studies of business best practice when engaging with social, environmental and ethical issues. But when educators look for resources to illustrate to students the more typical examples of bad – let alone scandalous –...
This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system. The third industrial revolution saw citizens, companies, and the economy acting in functional networks rather than in static ones, making top-down governing ever more difficult. Despite this, society systems created in the wake of the second industrial revolution linger on and must adapt to the globalized, digitized reali...
Operation Managers Are Like Pineapples. Tough On The Outside Sweet On The Inside
by Tbo Publications
More than three million people serve on boards and audit committees in the U.S. alone. But huge risks come with these coveted jobs. SEC scrutiny is at an all-time high, with boards and audit committees now held liable to for acts of fraud and other corporate malfeasance—even if they had no knowledge of wrong-doing in the organization.This essential guide mitigates the risks and dramatically increases the effectiveness of boards and audit committees by uncovering 10 crucial steps every governing...
The Corporate Governance Handbook best practices is not intended to replace good corporate legislation but to supplement legislation such as the Companies Act. The Companies Act is statutory law whereas corporate governance best practices including govern
Cryptocurrency Risk and Governance Challenges (Routledge Advances in Risk Management)
by Marizah Minhat, Mazni Abdullah, Nazam Dzolkarnaini, and Noor Sharoja Sapiei
This book provides an interdisciplinary critical perspective regarding risk, uncertainty and governance challenges of cryptocurrencies. It considers the perspectives of several disciplines including accounting, cybersecurity, cyberlaw, economics, ethics, finance, financial regulation, Shariah (Islamic) law and technology. Different from other books on a similar topic, this book's in-depth analysis and critical discourse on cryptocurrency risk categories are supplemented by research evidence ga...
The IT4IT(TM) Reference Architecture, Version 2.0 - A Pocket Guide
by Alex M. Andrew
Consejos para consejos
by Gustavo Manuel Vergara Alonso and Julio Rodriguez Diaz
The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naive user. While providing introduction to the concept, it shows the status of E-Governance in India through various measures, and its progress through different case studies. The historical development of E-Governance around the world and its rise in few developed and developing nations have also been discussed. The book also elaborates the establishment of E-Governance in India in detail and then compares the progress...
30 Key Questions That Unlock Management
by Brian Sutton and Robina Chatham
Let's be honest. No matter how good we are at our jobs, we're constantly being pushed for more. The challenge to do things more effectively and efficiently, more productively and profitably, is always hovering over us. We go on training courses, read training manuals and study self-improvement books. Is this just another self-help guide, filling our minds with good ideas and theories that are too difficult or time-consuming to put into practice? No. This book is different. Real issues 30 Key Que...
ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is an international standard for information security management systems (ISMSs). Closely allied to ISO/IEC 27002:2005 (which used to be known as ISO17799), this standard (sometimes called the ISMS standard) can help organisations meet all their information-related regulatory compliance objectives and can help them prepare and position themselves for new and emerging regulations. Information is the lifeblood of today s organis-ation and, therefore, ensuring that information is...