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“eric w orts”

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  • The Ethics of ESG

    Critically Assessing the Environmental, Social and Governance Movement

    Edited by Valentina Gentile, Eric W. Orts, Andreas Rasche, Alan Strudler ...
    In recent years, new forms of investment have been created to direct funds towards companies performing well according to predefined environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators. This volume addresses moral, political, and legal questions about the legitimacy of ESG as a management and investment strategy. Some chapters argue that ESG strategies should focus on creating real-life impacts ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Moral Responsibility of Firms

    Edited by Eric W. Orts, N. Craig Smith ...
    Individuals are generally considered morally responsible for their actions. Who or what is responsible when those individuals become part of business organizations? Can we correctly ascribe moral responsibility to the organization itself? If so, what are the grounds for this claim and to what extent do the individuals also remain morally responsible? If not, does moral responsibility fall entirely ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • The Shareholder Value Myth

    How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

    by Lynn Stout ...
    An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how ... Read more

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  • Liquidated

    An Ethnography of Wall Street

    by Karen Ho ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Capitalism and Crises

    How to Fix Them

    by Colin Mayer ...
    The world is encountering multiple crises - climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution. Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them - how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist system. We have failed to understand the key institution ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Finance Ethics

    Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

    by John R. Boatright ...
    Series Book 11 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practiceCompiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines.It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • Institutions and Economic Theory

    The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

    by Eirik G. Furubotn, Rudolf Richter ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political science. In addition to updated references, new material includes analysis of parallel developments in the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory

    Investing That Matters

    by Jon Lukomnik, James P. Hawley ...
    Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now showing its age. MPT has no mechanism to understand its impacts on the environmental, social and financial systems, nor any tools for investors to mitigate the havoc that systemic risks can wreck on their portfolios. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management

    Economic Value Analysis

    by Manuel Becerra ...
    Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization. Because the firm is the critical unit of analysis in strategy, we need to define what firms are, how they create value, and what their organizational boundaries are in order to understand their overall performance. However, this must be done ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • The Economics of Entrepreneurship

    by Simon C. Parker ...
    This second edition of The Economics of Entrepreneurship is an essential resource for scholars following the current state of this fast-moving field, covering a broad range of topics in unparalleled depth. Designed to be used both as a textbook for specialist degree courses on the economics of entrepreneurship, and as a reference text for academic research in the field, the book draws on ... Read more

    $67.29 USD

  • The Mechanisms of Governance

    by Oliver E. Williamson ...
    This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated. Transaction cost ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Why Does College Cost So Much?

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD