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Contents: 1. Introduction / Victoria K. Wells, Diana Gregory-Smith and Danae Manika -- 2. Multiple domains and categories of employee green behaviours: more than conservation / Deniz S. Ones, Brenton M. Wiernik, Stephan Dilchert and Rachael M. Klein -- 3. Green human resources management / Cristina E. Ciocirlan -- 4. Individual antecedents of pro-environmental behaviours: implications for employee green behaviours / Brenton M. Wiernik, Deniz S. Ones, Stephan Dilchert and Rachael M. Klein -- 5. Disentangling voluntary pro-environmental behaviour of employees (VPBE) - fostering research through an integrated theoretical model / Regina Hahn and Felix Ostertag -- 6. Environmental considerations as a basis for employee pro-environmental behaviour / Angela Ruepert and Linda Steg -- 7. Between- and within-person variability in employee pro-environmental behaviour / Hannes Zacher and Megan J. Bissing-Olson -- 8. Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong, / Yu Ha Cheung and Alicia S. M. Leung -- 9. Dare to care in environmental sustainability context: how managers can encourage employee pro-environmental behavior / Pascal Paillé -- 10. Leadership and employee pro-environmental behaviours / Bilal Afsar, Asad Shahjahan and Imad Shah -- 11. A virtuous cycle: how green companies grow green employees (and vice versa) / Thomas A. Norton, Stacey L. Parker, Matthew C. Davis, Sally V. Russell and Neal M. Ashkanasy -- 12. Organisational and employee symbolic environmental behaviours: an integrated multi-level framework / Lei Yang, Danae Manika and Frances Bowen -- 13. Motivation towards 'green' behaviour in the workplace: facilitating employee pro-environmental behaviour through participatory interventions / Paul C. Endrejat and Simone Kauffeld -- 14. A socio-motivational perspective on energy conservation in the workplace: the potential of motivational interviewing / Amelie V. Güntner, Florian E. Klonek and Simone Kauffeld -- 15. Enabling employees and breaking down barriers: Behavioural infrastructure for pro-Environmental behaviour / Simon Lockrey, Linda Brennan Karli Verghese, Warren Staples and Wayne Binney -- 16. Workplace energy use feedback in context / Niamh Murtagh, Birgitta Gatersleben and David Uzzell -- 17. The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations / Peter Bradley, Shane Fudge and Matthew Leach -- 18. Embedding pro-environmental behaviour change in large organisations: perspectives on the complexity of the challenge / Terry Tudor and Cleber Dutra -- 19. Measuring and tracking pro-environmental behaviour among university employees / John Callewaert and Robert W. Marans -- 20. Spillover of pro-environmental behaviour / Caroline Verfuerth and Diana Gregory-Smith -- Index.

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation schemes, board structures and shareholder activism. Further, it reviews some of the most important regulatory changes introduced since the latest financial crisis and highlights their impact on the annual reports of the banks under analysis. Lastly, the book assesses and compares major banks in Brazil and Germany with special emphasis on the aspects mentioned above, revealing surprising similarities between the banking systems of these otherwise disparate countries.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Towards an Evidence-Based Active Ageing Strategy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Use of AAI for Policymaking -- 1.3 Subnational Adaptations of the AAI -- 1.4 Comparative Analysis of Active Ageing -- 1.5 Methodological Improvements in Measuring Active Ageing -- 1.6 Use of Active Ageing Index in Non-EU Countries -- References -- Part I: Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies Active Ageing Index and its Potential -- 2: Are Societies with a High Value on the Active Ageing Index More Age Integrated? -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Conditions for Cross-age Interaction -- 2.2.1 Laws and Policies -- 2.2.2 Settings -- 2.2.3 Controls -- 2.3 Cross-age Interaction and Ageism -- 2.4 Method -- 2.4.1 Data -- 2.4.2 Measures -- 2.4.3 Analytical Strategy -- 2.5 Results -- 2.5.1 AAI and Settings Enabling Cross-age Interactions -- 2.5.2 Determinants of Cross-age Friendships -- 2.5.3 Cross-age Friendship and Ageism -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Expected, Evaluated, Perceived, Valued and Prevalent Social Roles of Older People: Are They by Consent? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Demography-Related Context and Roles Older People Are Expected to Play in Actively Ageing Societies -- 3.3 Social Roles in Higher Age -- 3.3.1 The Active Ageing Index as an Evaluation of Role Performance on the National Level -- 3.3.2 Roles to Play: As "Society" Sees It -- 3.3.3 Preferred Roles: From the Perspective of Older People Themselves -- 3.4 Expected, Evaluated, Perceived and Valued Roles: Are They by Consent? -- 3.5 Roles Played -- 3.6 Conclusions and Discussion -- References -- 4: The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methods, Data and Variables -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- References.

In public discourse in the United States, small businesses are lauded as drivers of the economy and keys to economic growth, while "big business" is often vilified. Even in the face of evidence that larger firms are proven to be more likely to stimulate economic growth, American public policy favors small businesses through measures such as lowering taxes or regulatory requirements for firms under a certain number of employees. The authors trace the anti-big business sentiment back to its roots in the early founding of our nation. While the Jeffersonian ideal of every citizen being self-employed made sense for a pre-industrial agrarian society, changes in technology have led to significant economies of scale for big businesses. Now, we see that countries with more self-employed workers are also more likely to be in poverty (think of emerging economies where everyone is an entrepreneur, and compare it to the compensation and benefits packages available to employees of large firms in more advanced economies). Rather than simply taking the opposite view that "bigger is better," the authors argue that a modern capitalist society has room for businesses of all sizes and that we should not be privileging one type of business over another due to size alone, especially when our perception of who creates jobs and grows the economy does not track with reality.

Argues that FBI Director James Comey's fateful letter to Congress, sent in the crucial days leading up to the presidential election, was the ultimate factor in shifting the election to a Trump victory, revealing how the letter violated long-standing Justice Department policies. - "During the week of October 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton was decisively ahead of Donald Trump in most polls. Then FBI Director James Comey sent his infamous letter to Congress on October 28, saying the bureau was investigating additional emails potentially relevant to the Hillary Clinton email case. Lost in the immediate media firestorm was any thoughtful analysis of the long, complex--and in many ways, hidden--narrative that brought Comey to this irreversible moment. Now, in this closely reasoned account, Lanny J. Davis shows how Comey's misguided announcement swung a significant number of voters away from Clinton, winning Trump an Electoral College victory--and the presidency. Drawing on sources in the intelligence community and Justice Department, Davis challenges Comey's legal rationale for opening a criminal investigation of Clinton's email practices, questions whether Comey received sufficient Justice Department oversight, and cites the odd clairvoyance of Trump ally Rudolph Giuliani, who publicly predicted an "October surprise" was coming. Davis then proves, state by state, using authoritative polling data, how voter support for Clinton dropped after the Comey letter was made public, especially in key battleground states. Despite so many other issues in the election--Trump's behavior, the Russian hacking, Clinton's campaign missteps--after the October 28 Comey letter, everything changed. American history took a surprising turn. In his final chapter, Davis makes a strong case that an impeachment investigation of President Trump must be begun by the U.S. House of Representatives and that serious consideration should also be given to removal of Trump under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment in light of evidence of mental instability that raises the question whether he can safely discharge his duties and powers as President."--Dust jacket

"In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert's account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senate's lost luster"--

Measures of economic uncertainty are countercyclical, but economic theory does not provide definite guidance on the direction of causation between uncertainty and the business cycle. This paper proposes a new multi-country approach to the analysis of the interaction between uncertainty and economic activity, without a priori restricting the direction of causality. We develop a multi-country version of the Lucas tree model with time-varying volatility and show that in addition to common technology shocks that affect output growth, higher-order moments of technology shocks are also required to explain the cross country variations of realized volatility. Using this theoretical insight, two common factors, a "real" and a "financial" one, are identified in the empirical analysis assuming different patterns of cross-country correlations of country-specific innovations to real GDP growth and realized stock market volatility. We then quantify the absolute and the relative importance of the common factor shocks as well as country-specific volatility and GDP growth shocks. The paper highlights three main empirical findings. First, it is shown that most of the unconditional correlation between volatility and growth can be accounted for by the real common factor, which is proportional to world growth in our empirical model and linked to the risk-free rate. Second, the share of volatility forecast error variance explained by the real common factor and by country-specific growth shocks amounts to less than 5 percent. Third, shocks to the common financial factor explain about 10 percent of the growth forecast error variance, but when such shocks occur, their negative impact on growth is large and persistent. In contrast, country-specific volatility shocks account for less than 1-2 percent of the growth forecast error variance.

Die Ankündigung des Siemens-Konzerns, trotz insgesamt guter Gewinnlage Arbeitsplätze in strukturschwachen Regionen Ostdeutschlands abzubauen, wurde quer durch das politische Parteienspektrum von namhaften Politikern skandalisiert. Meine wirtschaftsethische Reflexion dieses Falls tritt der Skandalisierung argumentativ entgegen. In Widerspruch zum öffentlich dominierenden Wahrnehmungsmuster entwickle ich zwei Thesen: (1) Es handelt sich nicht primär um einen Konflikt Arbeit versus Kapital, sondern um einen Konflikt Arbeit versus Arbeit. Und bei der Steuerung dieses Konflikts erfüllt das unternehmerische Gewinnprinzip eine Gemeinwohlfunktion. (2) Betriebsschließungen sind für strukturschwache Regionen als Unglück zu werten, nicht aber als Unrecht.

Dieser Kurzartikel formuliert eine wirtschaftsethische Stellungnahme zum jüngsten Oxfam-Skandal. Wir schlagen vor, zwischen der Organisationsverantwortung von Oxfam und der privaten Verantwortung einzelner Oxfam-Mitarbeiter zu unterscheiden und diskutieren Maßnahmen kollektiver Selbstregulierung, die geeignet sind, das Vertrauen in zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen sowie in den zivilgesellschaftlichen Sektor insgesamt nachhaltig zu stärken.

In diesem Kurzaufsatz diskutieren wir die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Karl Marx und der katholischen Soziallehre. Wir konzentrieren uns auf drei Vergleichspunkte: das Menschenbild, die soziale Frage und die Einstellung zum gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt.