Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training
by Pietro Previtali
The aim of this book is to examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organisations to a change in accreditation standards, with specific reference to the vocational educational and training (VET) sector and ethical standards. In particular, the authors analyse the Italian experience regarding a new accreditation standard recently adopted in the Region of Lombardy. Although based on a national experience, this innovative approach to accredita...
This book analyses the effect of biological risk on business and management by considering case studies from Malaysia, Lebanon, and G20 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering a wide range of topics, such as effects of virus risk on corporate sustainability, COVID-19 and CSR activities, governance practices and regulations for derivative products in emerging markets, risk management during a pandemic, and AI applications in the health sector, this book assists top management in redesign...
This book attempted to analyze the issues raised by the chronicity of the Covid pandemic and its governance. The author analyses, the information resources mobilized to combat the pandemic in industrialized countries and pays particular attention to the operational mechanism. The analysis sought to clarify the modalities of operation of the crisis system managing, while at the same time looking at the decision-making mechanisms. The main lines of analysis retained are: the piloting and managemen...
Corporate Governance in Italy (De Gruyter Studies in Corporate Governance)
The contribution of this book is to provide useful insights regarding the current development of the Italian corporate governance code through an international comparison. Compliance with the code may reveal interesting practices by boards towards a more sustainable corporate value creation path. Ethical behaviour by directors, inclusivity and executive compensation linked to ESG issues may strengthen the crucial role played by corporate governance and businesses against firm sustainable develop...
Price-Forecasting Models for Global X Cleantech ETF CTEC Stock (Alexander Fleming)
by Ton Viet Ta
Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance (Contributions to Management Science)
by Alex Manzoni and Sardar M N Islam, Professor
In the global knowledge economy, corporate governance, organisational behaviour and performance of the supply chain are becoming increasingly important aspects of the evaluation of an enterprise. The subject of this book is the development of a contemporary organisation behaviour performance measurement (OBPM) model for enterprises in the modern economy. The fields of organisation behaviour and supply chain management are integrated with an Open Socio-Technical Systems theory of management and t...
Are your internal audits adding value? Organizations hoping to comply with any of the International Standards for management systems (e.g. ISO9001, ISO27001) must carry out internal audits. However, the requirements set down by accreditation bodies for auditor courses make little distinction between internal and external audit programs. As a result, many organizations instruct their internal auditors using resources designed for external auditors. Such internal audit programs often fail to devel...
Towards a Functionally Humane Organisation
by Amita Srivastava and G. P. Rao
Enterprise Governance (Whitemarsh Data Management)
by Michael M Gorman
Kompendium Der Unternehmensfuhrung
by Joachim Schneider, Tom Kulms, and Andreas Roehder
Dieses Kompendium beschreibt wichtige Grundlagenkenntnisse in Bezug auf das Management von Unternehmen. Anhand von zahlreichen Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis erklart das Buch z.B. Kostenrechnung, Bilanzen, den Shareholder Value oder auch wichtige Management-Methoden. Verstandnisfragen mit dazugehoerigen Loesungen zu jedem Themenblock dienen der Festigung und Vertiefung der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse. Das Buch richtet sich insbesondere an Studierende und Absolventen eines Ingenieurstudiums.
A step-by-step guide to running a successful IT project Few businesses could function effectively without their IT systems. At the same time, they depend on IT for more than their day-to-day operations. Companies must constantly innovate in order to remain competitive and keep up with ever-changing customer requirements; IT projects deliver these innovations. The IT project manager is the person responsible for implementing the project and realising the objectives it was designed to achieve. A...
International Security Programs Benchmark Report: Research Report
by Bob Hayes and Kathleen Kotwica
From corporate corruption and the facilitation of money laundering, to food fraud and labour exploitation, European citizens continue to be confronted by serious corporate and white-collar crimes. Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions t...
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were unique only in their size and scale. Government programmes, designed to meet the needs of business, are not just everyday, they are everywhere and they are essential. Just as social welfare protects citizens from the cradle to the g...
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development: An Integrative Perspective