After each major corporate scandal, new suggestions for combatting fraud emerge from regulators and industry professionals. Despite changes to guidelines for firms’ corporate governance, augmented protection for whistle blowers, and enhanced cybersecurity measures, evidence documents an
alarming increase in the prevalence and severity of corporate fraud. The rapidly changing laws aimed at curbing corporate fraud sometimes lag behind the changing sophistication of fraud schemes.
Corporate Fraud Exposed discusses the motivations and drivers of fraud including agency theory, executive compensation, and organizational culture. It examines fraud’s consequences for various firm stakeholders and its spillover effects to other corporations, the political environment, and
financial market participants, including those who participate via crowdfunding platforms.
This book provides a fresh look at this intriguing but often complex subject. It skillfully blends the contributions of a global array of scholars and practitioners into a single review of some of the most important topics in this area. Given its broad scope, this practical and comprehensive title
should be of interest to anyone curious about corporate fraud.
Fiona Christie, Marilena Antoniadou, Kevin Albertson, Mark Crowder
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Exploring contemporary challenges and opportunities for the realisation of Decent Work, this edited collection reviews the origins of the concept and helps to demonstrate its working in practice. Using a Decent Work lens to explore the realities of eroding work conditions in typical and atypical
work, the analyses presented here argue that urgent action is required to address these issues for the benefit of individual workers, and society as a whole.
Prepared by researchers and collaborators associated with the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, this volume provides insights from an exceptional blend of authors presenting high-quality research from multiple disciplines including economics,
labour market studies, organisation studies, sociology, psychology, career development and education. These unique and wide-ranging contributions position Decent Work as valuable to important questions about the future of work, and emerging interdisciplinary research about work.
Addressing changes to today’s work and employment relationships – including the roles of governments, employers, and trade unions – this volume offers suggestions for how public and private sector policy and practice can support the realisation of Decent Work, while also theorising
the concept’s contested nature, and exploring urgent and practical possibilities to secure fair and decent working lives for all.
Globalization, competition and recession have created an overwhelming pressure on organizations to deliver growth. This has often resulted in tough performance targets being pushed down the line. Hard-hitting management may deliver short-term results but in the longer term key people burn out or
leave, and business performance falls back. Designing the Purposeful Organization explains how to implement a more enlightened and authentic leadership style that aligns people's strengths to the delivery of a compelling future.
Designing the Purposeful Organization draws on a unique framework that helps leaders manage the eight elements essential for high performance: purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character, results, success and talent. It moves beyond the boundaries of transactional performance (pay me X and
I'll deliver Y) to a purpose-centred performance that releases talent, creativity and engagement.
It features case studies from Google, Whole Foods Market, the NHS and the London 2012 Olympics and is ideal for practitioners in organization development, senior HR managers and business leaders.
This book demonstrates how business performance can be inspired beyond boundaries by aligning people to a compelling purpose.
The capabilities leaders are required to demonstrate have changed and will no doubt continue to do so. As there is no change without learning, their development experiences are critical. Too many development programmes are preoccupied with defining what leaders should learn, but 'content' is
conditioned by dynamic circumstances and in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) organizational world, it is rapidly out of date.
Developing Leaders For Real: Proven approaches that deliver impact presents chapters from international experts analysing approaches to leadership development that have actually delivered results, capturing how executives at all levels really learn to become better organizational leaders.
The chapters:
• Share with developers how to create contexts for learning that enable leaders to develop the capabilities needed to thrive in the fast-paced business environment
• Provide examples of formal processes of development which have worked in practice
• Demonstrate the need for experiential involvement, self-reflection, and a holistic approach
Developing People and Organisations introduces and explores concepts relevant to the learning outcomes for the optional units in CIPD's Level 5 Intermediate qualifications in human resource development (HRD) and organisational design and development. It provides a practical and accessible exposition
of key theories informing the professional practice of HRD so students can explain and analyse the organisational context of HRD practice and describe, compare and critically evaluate a range of theories and approaches. Written and edited by CIPD-accredited experts in the field and mapped to CIPD's
HR Profession Map, Developing People and Organisations covers key topics such as organisation design and development, developing coaching and mentoring in organisations, meeting OD needs and developments in HRD. It includes reflective activities, annotated further reading, a glossary and case
studies to encourage the application of theory to a practical working environment. Online supporting resources include an instructor's manual, additional case studies, multiple-choice questions and annotated web links.
Thomas Gegenhuber, Danielle Logue, C.R. Bob Hinings, Michael Barrett
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This volume contains two Open Access chapters.
Digital transformation is permeating all domains of business and society. Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory explores how manifestations of digital transformation requires rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. Showcasing a collaborative forum of
organization and management theory scholars and information systems researchers, the authors enrich institutional theory approaches in understanding digital transformation.
Advancing institutional perspectives with an agenda for future research and methodological reflections, the chapters delve into digital transformations in relation to institutional logics and technological affordances, professional projects and new institutional agents, institutional infrastructure,
and field governance. This volume deepens our understanding of the pervasive and increasingly important relationship between technology and institutions and the response of existing professions to the emergence of digital technologies. Moreover, the authors offer a cutting-edge analysis of how new
digital organizational forms affect institutional fields, their infrastructure, and thus their governance.
Diversity in Action: Managing Diverse Talent in a Global Economy examines one of the most important and topical issue related to diversity management, namely implementing effective strategies for managing diverse talent groups. Highlighting both theoretical issues regarding diversity management and
their practical implications, Marina Latukha’s wide ranging collection investigates how different management practices focusing on diverse talent groups are realised in order to provide systematic assessments on existing diversity challenges.
Diversity in Action uniquely features diversity within diversity as the main topic within its analysis. Content covers different types of employees in its focus of diversity management practices in global economies. Groups explored in relation to human resource and talent management practices
include but not limited to management of different generations and migrants and diaspora’ representatives employed in modern organizations. There is also discussion of gender-focused initiatives to present the dialog about female talent management and the way it influences organizational
results.
Diversity in Action highlights the latest development in relation to strategies and practices on diversity management, providing specific examples of how different talent diverse groups should be involved in organizational business processes and effectively managed.
Pamela L. Perrew, Peter D. Harms, Chu-Hsiang Daisy Chang
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Volume 18 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being is focused on the stress and well-being related to Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses. This volume focuses on entrepreneurial and small business owners; stress, health, and well-being as it relates to personal, work, and success
outcomes. The literature linking stress with entrepreneurship and small business has been somewhat scattered to date in that stress has been treated as an antecedent of decisions to create new ventures, a frequent outcome experienced by entrepreneurs and small business owners (or self-employed
businesses), and a moderator of the entrepreneurial process. We attempt to resolve some of the inconsistences theoretically and to better frame future research in this important area of study. We have seven chapters that cover topics from theory-building to context in small businesses to utilizing
resources. We have divided our seven chapters into three sections. In the first section, we include three chapters that examine new theories, frameworks and future research agendas in entrepreneurship. In the second section, we have two chapters that examine contexts, specifically, heterogeneity
and non-family membership in small businesses. In the final section, we have chapters that examine the important role of resources in entrepreneurship. We believe this volume offers critical analyses of research on stress and entrepreneurship as well new frameworks for future research.
Robert N. Eberhart, Michael Lounsbury, Howard E. Aldrich
£87.50
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The second of two volumes bringing together researchers from an array of disciplines including sociology, organization theory, strategy, and organizational behaviour, Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings addresses the question of how entrepreneurship has transformed from an
organizing activity into an ideology that is changing society.
The authors investigate how the transformed meanings of entrepreneurship are causal in new social phenomenon such as organizational misconduct and driving inequality, but also how it may offer a promise to resolve those issues.
Examining into the role of organizations in society, Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world.
Robert N. Eberhart, Michael Lounsbury, Howard E. Aldrich
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The first of two volumes bringing together researchers from an array of disciplines including sociology, organization theory, strategy, and organizational behaviour, Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives addresses the question of how entrepreneurship has transformed from an
organizing activity into an ideology that is changing society.
The authors investigate the transformation of entrepreneurship into a social phenomenon, leading to an understanding of how entrepreneurship is shaping the acceptance of inequality, new employment relationships, changed understandings of social outcomes, altered policies, and social precarity.
Examining the role of organizations in society, Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world.