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Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research on corporate governance both in the US and globally. The volume will aim at providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices, trends, innovations and challenges using international data.

Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research on corporate governance both in the US and globally. Papers will deal with the role played by boards of directors, internal organization design and governance mechanisms, franchise agreements, the effect of regulation and policy, the market for corporate control, and strategic alliances. The volume will aim at providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices, trends, innovations and challenges using international data.

Giving voice to the marginalized, broadly defined, is the aim of this volume in its examination of social life increasingly marked by global inequality and the extension of market rationalities to all arenas. Revealing the outcome to populations, stakeholders, and the environment when policies resting on narrowly constrained logics are employed, these researchers lead the way in probing accounting's participation in significant struggles of our times. In order to better appreciate the consequences of economic globalization, the works examine contemporary rhetoric, governance, politics, and strategies and the manner in which accounting technologies are integrated. These works maintain that transformation is inevitable and they search for possibilities of change that can be manifested in socially equitable practices and improved social justice by enhancing accountability.

Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented governmental landscape throughout America. It argues that in order for 'governance' to occur in metropolitan areas (or anywhere else, for that matter), there has to be some form of an actual governmental ins.

Advances in Financial Economics, volume 18, will present research on corporate governance both in the US and globally. Papers will deal with the role played by boards of directors, internal organization design and governance mechanisms, franchise agreements, the effect of regulation and policy, the market for corporate control, and strategic alliances. The volume will aim at providing a deeper understanding of corporate governance practices, trends, innovations and challenges using international data.

This e-book addresses interesting aspects of corruption. Corruption has been a significant public issue in most developing countries in the post-colonial era. In the past decade it has arguably become the most prominent concern of international institutions such as the World Bank. This concern has been shared by policy-makers and the public within emerging economies. Its significance in Indian public life, for example, can be gauged by the extent of the unique citizens' movement which spread to the length and breadth of the country in the past few years, inviting diverse participation

Die Vereinten Nationen sind heute keine rein zwischenstaatliche Organisation mehr. Nichtstaatliche Akteure wie Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen werden zunehmend an den dort stattfindenden Prozessen der Normsetzung, -umsetzung und -durchsetzung beteiligt. Das Lehrbuch führt in die Arbeit der UN ein und trägt dem Einzug von Global Governance in die Organisation Rechnung, indem es einen Analyserahmen zur Untersuchung neuer Modi globalen Regierens entwickelt und diesen auf fünf ausgewählte Sachbereiche (Friedenssicherung, Rüstungskontrolle und Abrüstung, Menschenrechtsschutz, Entwicklungspolitik und Umweltpolitik) anwendet. Der Inhalt Die Vereinten Nationen als Friedensorganisation.- Die Vereinten Nationen im 20. Jahrhundert.- Friedenssicherung.- Rüstungskontrolle und Abrüstung.- Menschenrechte.- Entwicklungspolitik.- Umwelt. Die Zielgruppen - Studierende und Lehrende der Politikwissenschaft, der Internationalen Beziehungen und der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung - UN-ForscherInnen - globale EntscheidungsträgerInnen Die Autorinnen Tanja Brühl ist Professorin für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationale Institutionen und Friedensprozesse an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Elvira Rosert ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur für Internationale Institutionen und Friedensprozesse an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main sowie im Programmbereich Sicherheits- und Weltordnungspolitik von Staaten an der Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Globalization raises important questions about the governing capacity of domestic institutions. In Globalization and Governance, Jon Pierre studies the impact of international norms and prescriptions on domestic governance in Japan, Sweden and the United States. The empirical analysis is focused on economic governance, administrative reform and intergovernmental relationships. Drawing on survey data, documents and interviews, the analysis finds that domestic institutions still intrinsically shape domestic governance. International norms towards deregulation and market-based administrative refo

Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the civil society and non-governmental organisations. Questions of climate change governance deal both with mitigation and adaptation whilst at the same time trying to devise effective ways of managing the consequences of these measures across the different sectors. Many books have been produced on general matters related to climate change, such as climate modelling, temperature variations, sea level rise, but, to date, very few publications have addressed the political, economic and social elements of climate change and their links with governance. This book will address this gap. Furthermore, a particular feature of this book is that it not only presents different perspectives on climate change governance, but it also introduces theoretical approaches and brings these together with practical examples which show how main principles may be implemented in practice.