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  • If You're So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid?

    Ethics, Inequality and Executive Pay

    by Alexander Pepper ...
    In the past 30 years, senior executive pay has increased dramatically in the UK, US and other developed countries, causing much debate and, at times, public outrage. In this book, Alexander ('Sandy') Pepper argues that this soaring inflation in high pay is the result of a market failure, leading to inefficient pay practices that are replicated across industries. Individual company's renumeration ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's a Company For?

    A Problem in Business Ethics (or...when Socrates met Milton Friedman)

    by Alexander Pepper ...
    Is the job of a company director simply to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible for shareholders? Do businesses have obligations to employees, other stakeholders, and society as a whole? And, most pressingly of all, do they have any responsibility for the environment, for social inequality, and to sustain fair competition in a world dominated by mega-corporations?In this book, ... Read more

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  • Navigating the 21st Century Business World

    Case Studies in Management

    Edited by Dorottya Sallai, Alexander Pepper ...
    Case studies have long been an integral part of business and management education. As artificial intelligence transforms teaching and learning, they are assuming even greater importance. Cases provide the opportunity to learn from real-life scenarios, equipping students with the analytical skills required to critically examine data, apply theory, and interpret complex situations in what is an ... Read more

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  • Agency Theory and Executive Pay

    The Remuneration Committee's Dilemma

    by Alexander Pepper ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay. It argues that while Jensen and Meckling (1976) were right in their analysis of the agency problem in public corporations they were wrong about the proposed solutions. Drawing on ideas from economics, psychology, sociology and the philosophy of science, the author explains how standard agency theory has contributed to ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts

    by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins ...
    A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly ... Read more

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  • The Fish Rots From The Head

    The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

    by Bob Garratt ...
    As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal ... Read more

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  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

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  • Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Quantification in Global Public Policy

    by Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and ... Read more

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  • Simple Tools and Techniques for Enterprise Risk Management

    by Robert J. Chapman ...
    Your business reputation can take years to build—and mere minutes to destroyThe range of business threats is evolving rapidly but your organization can thrive and gain a competitive advantage with your business vision for enterprise risk management. Trends affecting markets—events in the global financial markets, changing technologies, environmental priorities, dependency on intellectual property ... Read more

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  • Management Accounting Change

    Approaches and Perspectives

    by Chandana Alawattage ...
    Written by two experienced lecturers, this is the first student-centered textbook to bridge the technical and theoretical aspects of management accounting change. Packed full of pedagogical features, including mini-cases, learning outcomes, key terms, article summaries, key concept boxes, real-world cases, chapter summaries and further reading suggestions and resources, it is clear and accessibly ... Read more

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  • Corporate Governance

    Principles and Issues

    by Donald Nordberg ...
    Offering a fresh look at the commonly accepted view of what constitutes good governance, Donald Nordberg explores the contexts of board decisions and draws upon his academic research and years of business and financial journalism in Europe, North America and Asia to provide a distinctive and pertinent contribution to the literature on corporate governance. The book:- Features 21 detailed case ... Read more

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  • Markets

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    Series series Economy and Society
    Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and anthropology, and systematically investigates the different forms of markets we encounter daily in our social lives.Aspers starts by ... Read more

    $21.00 USD