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  • Healthcare Infrastructure, Resilience and Climate Change

    Preparing for Extreme Weather Events

    by Virendra Kumar Paul, Abhijit Rastogi, Sumedha Dua, Chaitali Basu ...
    This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • When Principles Pay

    Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line

    by Geoffrey Heal ...
    Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by positioning itself as the green car company par excellence. These trends suggest that antisocial ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edited by Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Global Handbook of Impact Investing

    Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society

    Edited by Elsa De Morais Sarmento, R. Paul Herman ...
    Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world.The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Financial Supervision in the 21st Century

    Edited by A. Joanne Kellermann, Jakob de Haan, Femke de Vries ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The financial crisis prompted financial supervisors to take a critical look at their own performance. The "toolkit" available to supervisors is considerably more varied than it was a few years ago. Supervision has become more forward-looking, taking into account also soft controls, such as ‘conduct and culture’, corporate governance, and business models of financial institutions. This collection ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organizations

    by Marc Jegers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    This is the first book of its kind to bring together the microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organizations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organizations by instead focusing on both theoretical and empirical work. Jegers begins by considering definitions of non-profit organizations before ex ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Advances in Crowdfunding

    Research and Practice

    Edited by Rotem Shneor, Liang Zhao, Bjørn-Tore Flåten ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety of geographies and sectors, and explores the perspectives of fundraisers, backers, platforms, and regulators. Gathering insights from a wide range of influential researchers in ... Read more

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  • Achieving Regulatory Excellence

    by Jim Ellis ...
    Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Impact Investing

    Instruments, Mechanisms and Actors

    by Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl, Barbara Scheck ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics. Specifically, it will introduce the concept of impact investing within the broader field of social finance as well as the relevant actors, present current financing instruments and the various tools to assess ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Corporate Governance

    Recent Developments and New Trends

    Edited by Sabri Boubaker, Bang Dang Nguyen, Duc Khuong Nguyen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The current crisis has rocked the financial system worldwide and has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the existing regulatory regime. Thousands of firms have gone bankrupt and many financial institutions were bailed out by governments. The effects of the crisis have shaken emerging and developing markets alike and have not spared neither small nor large businesses.Many scholars and practitioners ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmental Social Governance

    Managing Risk and Expectations

    by Karlheinz Spitz, John Trudinger, Matthew Orr ...
    Increasingly, companies are being judged by their performance in terms of Environmental Social Governance (ESG). But exactly what does it mean, and what should be done about it? While much ambiguity exists, it is no longer sufficient to negotiate the environmental assessment process successfully. ESG is an ongoing process that spans the entire life cycle of a company and its operations.This book ... Read more

    $68.99 USD