Corporate Governance is a text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world.
Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s.
This text explains why the existence of "special status corporations" inhibits the Japanese prime minister's efforts to implement structural reforms.
Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s.
The world's financial landscape is transforming as economies become increasingly... Læs mere
Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity... Læs mere
This book analyzes the new trends in capital flows to emerging markets since the Asian crisis, their determinants and policy implications. and what can be done on the source countries to encourage larger more stable capital flows to developing countries.
The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer.
Dramatic changes in market conditions, budgetary constraints, the evolving nature of risk within the financial organization, as well as the requirements of increasing regulation in the global market place have resulted in a totally different environment for risk systems.
Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets. The key focus of the book is the emerging domestic and international emissions trading schemes, project based trading programmes, and the developing greenhouse gas markets.
This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and... Læs mere
The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in Sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed.