Rethinking Corporate Governance

The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders from expropriation. This book takes a broader perspective by showing that investor protection is a necessary, but not sufficient, legal condition for the efficient separation of ownership and contro…

IT Governance Developing a successful governance strategy

The effective use of information technology is now an accepted organisational imperative - for all businesses, across all sectors - and the primary motivation; improved communications and commercial effectiveness. The swift pace of change in these technologies has consigned many established best practice approaches to the past. Today's IT decision makers and business managers face uncertain…

TOWARDS A RADICAL METAPHYSICS OF SOCIALISM

François Laruelle’s non-Marxist reading of Marx, executed in Introduction au non-marxisme, is accomplished by allowing Marx’s text to speak for itself, without placing it into the history of philosophy.1 A non-philosophical reading of Marx operates with the “use-value” of concepts that have been radicalized to expose their unilateral correlation with the effect of the real. In non-phi…

Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism

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Corporate Governance Principles

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Routledge Handbook of Democratization

Four decades ago, there were few democratically elected governments outside Western Europe and North America. Non-democracies had various kinds of authoritarian, unelected governments, including, military, one-party, no party and personalist dictatorships. From the mid-1970s, there was an unexpected, not regionally specific, shift from unelected to elected governments – a process of democrati…

Gender and the Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats are the UK’s third party at Westminster: they currently have fifty-seven MPs, less than 10 percent of the House of Commons. Despite the fact that they are currently in coalition govern- ment with the Conservatives, their third party status is reflected in the relative lack of attention paid to the party, hence less is known about the party’s organisation, policies and …

The Invisible Constitution of Politics

This book’s focus on meanings of norms, frictions between interpreta- tions and subsequent conflicts among international actors reflects a sign of the times of extending social practices beyond the boundaries of modern nation-states. It is likely to be lost on those who are not part of the process. In turn, those who participate in global travel and discussion usually neither move in large …

THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

“Maidan” is how the residents of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, usually abbreviate the name of their city’s main plaza, Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). In recent times this name has also come to connote a space of popular protests and people power in general. “Maidan” is a Turkic word for a square, and Ukrainians likely borrowed it from the Crimean Tatars or other Turkic-spe…

Piety and politics: the right-wing assault on religious freedom

On January 23,2003, Falwell told me on CNN's Crossfire that if I really read the Bible I'd be a conservative. I told him I did read it, and to prove it I'd be happy to come down to his church in Lynchburg, Virginia, any Sunday and preach at all of his services. Falwell replied, "I wouldn't trust you to preach the gospel out on the corneL" Even Bob Novak, the curmudgeonly conservative cohost of…

Civil Litigation in a Globalising World

There is a wide array of fundamental and important principles of civil justice. The main suggestion has been that the leading principles of civil justice might usefully be arranged under these four corner-stones of civil justice: Access to Legal Advice and Dispute-Resolution Systems; Equality and Fairness between the Parties; A Focused and Speedy Process; and Adjudicators of Integrity. Jurists …

Human Rights Protection in Global Politics

The 2005 World Summit recognized the responsibility to protect. In one sense, this might be considered a normative revolution: a sign that the international human rights regime has reached a middle stage in a ‘lifecycle’ that has the potential to end in states’ internalization of the obligations of human rights protection (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998). In another sense, however, this was…

Uncommon Goods

It has been a productive challenge to write an introductory book on contemporary readymade practices that would appeal to a broad and critical audience. Despite its accruing history and heavily validated art historical pedigree, the readymade can still be mystifying to art viewers. I wanted to write a book that would address this—not by simply rehashing its history with new little twists, but…

BASTARDS OF UTOPIA

The book you hold in your hands forms one panel in a broader Bastards of Utopia triptych. In addition to this written ethnography, there are two documentary film projects: a traditional feature documentary and an online inter- active documentary. Instructions on how to purchase the feature documentary are available at www.bastardsindex.com. The interactive, or “remixable,” version of the …

POLITICS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

The aim of this book is to explore the chang- ing nature of politics in the developing world in the twenty-first century. Both ‘politics’ and the ‘developing world’ are concepts that require fur- ther elaboration and which are discussed more fully below. By politics, we mean broadly activities associated with the process and institutions of gov- ernment, or the state, but in the context…

Good Regulation, Bad Regulation

Before discussing the pros and cons of regulation in general and financial regulation in particular, we have to understand what regulation is all about and what forms it takes. Although there are arguments for and against regulation in general (hence against and for deregulation), some arguments are type-specific. For example, environmental regula- tion is motivated by the desire to protect hum…

Global and ReGional PRoblems

In this book we will propose new interdisciplinary directions for the study of global and regional problems and the interactions between these two scales. Today contemplating and addressing global and regional problems are bread and butter activities for many professionals interested in ‘international’ matters broadly conceived: academic analysts in several disciplines and fields, practisin…

Parochial Global Europe

n November 1992, European Union (EU) and United States trade negoti- ators met in the US President’s official guest house to resolve outstanding differences on domestic support for agriculture. The resulting Blair House Agreement paved the way for the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whose rules govern global trade. Decisions taken around the world about whether to cultivate ge…

Global Governance and Regulatory Failure

Did global governance through transgovernmental networks lead to regulatory failure that caused the Great Recession? And, if yes, should we enhance global cooperation to prevent future crises or focus on the national level? In 2005, bank supervisors from industrialised nations – within the transgovernmental network of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – agreed to harmonise their …

Simulation and a theory of organizational behavior

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Theories of Ethics

This is a book about ethics, about right and wrong, and about good and bad in human life. But can we really tell moral right from wrong? Morality, many people think, is not like sci- ence, which deals in facts, but a matter of values, about which we can only have personal opinions. According to this point of view, there aren’t any moral facts, and this explains why people disagree so much ove…

The Data Quality Imperative in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

More than ever, organizations require trusted, high quality data to satisfy governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Organizations are discovering that poor quality data has a significant impact on their ability to support business processes, comply with industry regulators, and to make accurate decisions and are raising the visibility of data quality activities within their enterpri…

The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services From Regulation to Innova…

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Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics is one of my three texts on applied ethics that is now being pub- lished by Wiley-Blackwell. The idea behind each of the books, in general, is to present some of the most pressing questions in applied ethics through a mixture of classic essays and some new essays commissioned precisely for these volumes. The result is a dialogue that I think readers will find enriching. …

Experimental Ethics

Academic philosophy has experienced a major upheaval in the last decade. Venturous young philosophers, psychologists, and economists have begun to challenge the traditional stance that philosophy is an undertaking best pursued from the safety and calm of an arm-chair. Instead, they took the gloves off and tried to bring philosophical ques- tions to the experimental laboratory. To date, more th…

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle came to Athens in 367 BCE at the age of 17, to go to university. ‘University’ in this case meant the Academy, the philosophical school founded by the great Plato, who himself had been a disciple of Socrates. Athens was the cultural centre of the Mediterranean, and its citizens might have had two reasons for not being immediately impressed by the young Aristotle. He came from the f…

RISK MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INVESTMENT BANKING: THE ROLE OF CHI…

Abstract This paper focuses on the defining the role of CRO in corporate governance and to show the interrelation between the way of CRO subordination and performance of investment bank. The sample consists of observations over a period of 2011 for 29 biggest investment banks (by amount of assets) implementing world-wide investment activity. The banks are originated in the USA (8), Eastern …

Stakeholder Theory

We begin this chapter by outlining the problems that stakeholder theory was originally conceptualized to solve and the “basic mechanics” that we believe underlie the development of the theory during the last thirty years. We turn in the next sections to the arguments of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, Michael Porter, and Oliver Williamson, often cited as opponents of stakeholder theor…

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

Information governance (IG) has emerged as a key concern for business executives and managers in today’s environment of Big Data, increasing information risks, colossal leaks, and greater compliance and legal demands. But few seem to have a clear understanding of what IG is; that is, how you defi ne what it is and is not, and how to implement it. This book clarifi es and codifi es these d…