Authors:Keith P. Ambachtsheer, D. Don Ezra,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: value, stakeholders, creating, excellence, fund, pension
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-04-09
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0471246557
ISBN-13: 9780471246558

"This is a landmark book on pension fund management. All those with a stake in building pension wealth will profit from this commonsense and clearly readable guide to improved pension fund performance." —Burton G. Malkiel author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Princeton University. "This is not just another book of theory about how pension funds should be managed, or about how one expert thinks an appropriate asset allocation should be determined. . . . There is keen analysis by Messrs. Ambachtsheer and Ezra, both of whom are veter

Author: Kenneth Omeje
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: security, nigeria, conflict, oil, stakeholders, stakes
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2006-03
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754647277
ISBN-13: 9780754647270

Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producing country. Oil generates enormous wealth but also extensive and devastating conflict in the country. "High Stakes and Stakeholders" critically explores the oil conflict in Nigeria, its evolution, dynamics and most significantly, the interplay and consequences of high stake politics for the reproduction and persistence of the conflict. It presents a conceptual anatomy of state-oil industry-society relations and demonstrates how the embedded material interests and accumulation patterns of different stakeholders underlie, shape and complicate both the

Author: Carolyn Kneese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Keywords: public, stakeholders, perspectives, calendar, school, balancing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-01-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1578868793
ISBN-13: 9781578868797

Balancing the School Calendar is a compilation of perspectives and research reports from those who have experienced the urgent necessity of reorganizing time to effectuate better learning situations for students. Chapter authors have implemented, studied, or contemplated school calendar change and the results of the change.

Authors:Anne Lawrence, James Weber,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: public, policy, ethics, stakeholders, society, business
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2007-02-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073530174
ISBN-13: 9780073530178

BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: Stakeholder Relations, Ethics and Public Policy by Lawrence and Weber has continued through several successive author teams to be the market-leader in its field. BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, 12e highlights why government regulation is sometimes required as well as new models of business-community collaboration. The authors believe that businesses have social (as well as economic) responsibilities to society; that business and government both have important roles to play in the modern economy; and that ethics and integrity are essential to personal fulfillment and to business suc

Author: Frank Buytendijk
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: stakeholders, lead, industry, align, people, leadership, practices, motivate, performance
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0071599649
ISBN-13: 9780071599641

Why do so many scorecard projects fail? Why do managers treat information as a source of power to be protected, instead of an asset to be exploited? Clearly there has to be a better way of managing perfomance. After witnessing countless initiatives fail, Oracle thought leader and former Gartner analyst Frank Buytendijk challenges conventional wisdom on the best practices of performance management and developed a new framework that predicts and improves organizational behavior--which in turn maximizes business performance both inside and outside an organization.. . In Performance Leadership,

Author: Mord Bogie
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: power, stakeholders, governance, corporations, american, horses, myths, churchill
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-02-28
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 1567200737
ISBN-13: 9781567200737

The large public corporations powering the U.S. economy--Churchill’s Horses, in Bogie’s metaphor--are underachievers, and all of us are paying the price. Why? The reasons are shrouded in the myths that these corporations use to mask their great power and disguise the interests it serves. Myth: the shareholders who own a public corporation control it by electing the directors who govern it. Anti-Myth (fact): shareholders of a public corporation don’t elect the directors, and the directors don’t govern the corporation. Shareholders don’t even own the corporation in

Authors:William B. Werther Jr., David Chandler,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: global, environment, stakeholders, responsibility, corporate, social, strategic
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-11-11
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 141291373X
ISBN-13: 9781412913737

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment provides faculty and students with a comprehensive, stand-alone text to support traditional and innovative courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Integral to the book’s unique format is the real-life "mini-case-study" approach across the spectrum of CSR topics, backed by Internet accessible references. Adopting a stakeholder approach to CSR, the content and format of this sourcebook defines CSR within the global communications environment in which multinational corporations operate today.