Governance risks in organizations : a clinical approach with tools for decision-making / Rodolfo Apreda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apreda, Rodolfo.

Series:

Global economic studies series.

Government procedures and operations

Global Economic Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance.

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this book is to get the reader acquainted with the basic features that run through the fields of corporate, public and global governances; to introduce the new subject of Governance Risks, within the context of organizations in a global economy; to provide a set of tailor-made tools and make them operational, so as to cope with governance risks. It also provides a clinical approach to diagnose and treat governance failures, the incremental cash-flow model that strongly articulates with the clinical approach, the index of governance performance, from which the metrics of governance risks evolves eventually. This book conveys a self-contained treatment based on step-by-step learning, from the basics of the subject through building blocks that deal with tools for decision-making, and ending up with the Governance-Risk Scoreboard.

Contents:

On the nature and scope of corporate governance in the global economy

A clinical approach to governance

Governance risks

Performance and the risks of governance

Global financial instability and opaque governance

The governance-risk scoreboard.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 12, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62257-284-X