Corporate boards : managers of risk, sources of risk / / edited by Robert W. Kolb and Donald Schwartz

• Pubblicazione: Chichester ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.155; 658.422
• Soggetto topico: Boards of directors; Corporate governance; Risk management
• Altri autori: KolbRobert W. <1949-> SchwartzDonald E. <1930->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CORPORATE BOARDS; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I A Factual Basis; 1 The Relationship Between Boards of Directors and their Risk Management Organizations: Are Standards of Best Practice Emerging?; Part II Is Risk Management by Corporate Boards Even Possible?; 2 Risk Management, Chaos Theory, and the Corporate Board of Directors; 3 Anti-Social Norms, Risky Behavior; 4 Time-Inconsistent Boards and the Risk of Repeated Misconduct; 5 Discussion; Part III Board Structure and the Management of Risk; 6 Theories of Governance and Corporate Moral Vulnerability ; 7 Mitigating the Exposure of Corporate Boards to Risk and Unethical Conflicts8 Supervisory Board and Financial Risk-Taking Behaviors in Chinese Listed Companies; 9 Discussion; Part IV Corporate Boards and the Management of Specific Risks; 10 Entity-Level Controls and the Monitoring Role of Corporate Boards; 11 Do Corporate Boards Care About Sustainability? Should They Care?; 12 Executive Risk Taking and Equity Compensation in the M&A Process; 13 Discussion; Part V Corporate Boards, Risk Management, and the Ethical Firm; 14 The Ethics of Risk Management by a Board of Directors ; 15 Assurance and Reassurance: The Role of the Board16 Risk Disclosure and Transparency: Toward Corporate Collective and Collaborative Informed Consent; 17 Discussion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk deals with the highly timely topic of the Corporate Board and its relationship to risk, both in terms of its management and its creation. Utilizes a multi-disciplinary perspective which draws on the fields of economics, law, business ethics, and corporate social responsibilityFeatures a range of topics including the role of corporate boards in overseeing increasingly complex risk management techniques and the ethical dimensions of corporate board behavior in managing risk Of interest to students, scholar
• Titolo autorizzato: Corporate boards
• ISBN: 1-282-29203-X; 9786612292033; 1-4443-1588-9; 1-4443-1589-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910877395703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Loyola University Series on Risk Management