This paper examines corporate governance and Climate Change risk management of transport industry in Hong Kong. This exploratory case study aims to investigate how the board of directors of an organization in the transport sector is addressing Climate Change risks through governance practices....

This document describes the current business operating environment, identifies the socio-economic reasons that make corporate controls mandatory for the current organizations (private, public, etc.) all over the world, and a methodology for designing corporate strategic and operational control...

I show that in a global market for corporate control straightforward profit maximization, not maximizing a weighted sum of profits and sales, is the dominant solution of the game if management assigns decisions on output and the input of productive factors to different departments within the...

Corporate Purpose as a Competitive AdvantageVicente Salas-FumásUniversity of Zaragoza March 2023AbstractThere is a widely held belief that capitalism delivers superior social outcomes if the reason why corporations come into existence, their purpose, is to create social value rather than to...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, die betriebswirtschaftlichen Anforderungen an ein Risikomanagement darzustellen und mit den nationalen und internationalen (teilweise gesetzlichen) Anforderungen sowie Prüfungsstandards zu vergleichen. Dabei ist zu untersuchen, ob bereits mit der...

Even though small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) were believed not to proceed beyond exporting in their internationalization routes, we can observe new types of co-operation intensive entrepreneurial firms – so-called “micromultinational enterprises” (mMNEs) – entering the global...

In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...

IT-Compliance bezeichnet einen Zustand, in dem alle die IT des Unternehmens betreffenden und verbindlich vorgegebenen bzw. als verbindlich akzeptierten Vorgaben nachweislich eingehalten werden. Damit stellt IT-Compliance einen auf den IT-Einsatz im Unternehmen spezialisierten Teilbereich der...

We investigate the influence of non-executive outside directors on firms' innovative performance for a sample of 1,393 listed firms in the EU - 15 member states plus Norway and Switzerland in the period 2005 to 2010. Our results show that the fraction of non-executive outside directors on the...

Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...