This Palgrave Pivot aims to build a bridge between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable finance in financial markets. It investigates classic CSR topics in the light of a modern conception of sustainability. The first part emphasizes four relevant topics in the CSR panorama of...

How should investors manage portfolios during crises? This question has surfaced since the 2008 global financial crisis, which is the latest of a series of shocks that began in the early 1970s. While crisis situations offer opportunities to outperform markets or to be engulfed by them, little...

Das kapitalnachfragende Unternehmen als Finanzkommunikator -- Institutionelle Investoren als Adressaten der Finanzkommunikation -- Finanzkommunikation in kommunikationstheoretischer Perspektive -- Unternehmen, Kommunikation und Information: ein Zwischenfazit -- Die...

Narratives of the Global Financial Crisis -- Multi-Level Complexity: The 21st Century Financial System -- US Policy Responses to the Crisis -- Knowledge Asymmetries and the Idea of Knowledge-Based Regulation -- Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: A Theoretic Framework.

Japanese Management in Change -- The Perceived Development and Unperceived Decline of Corporate Governance in Japan -- Empirical analysis of the influence of outside directors on Japanese firm performance -- The Social Roles of Japanese Companies under the "New Public" Policy -- Formation of the...

Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension systems in the face of demographic change. This study, however, also takes into account distributional effects involved in pension system structures. Theoretical,...

Over time, the responsibility for providing for a financially secure retirement has shifted more towards the individual. A number of implicit assumptions about perspectives, behavior, and individual choices underlie this shift. These assumptions presume that individuals are well-informed and...