Issues of governance, responsibility and accountability are becoming increasing important as the world, simultaneously, becomes dominated by corporations, interconnected via forces of globalisation and transparent through heightened media attention and rise in internet-led democracy. Companies, and in particular leader of business can no longer hide from their responsibilities to wider stakeholder community by claims of ignorance of corporate malpractices and of failure. Boards of directors are being increasing made responsible for both the successes and failures of their companies, as well as their own conduct and behaviours.
Overview
Actions of business have increasingly become a concern not just for shareholder but also to the wider community at large. Business governance is no longer just about running the company as efficiently as possible in narrow cost and profit terms but about managing the wider responsibilities. This means that company directors need to move beyond narrow corporate governance concerns that simply deal with their functional roles and responsibilities, their salaries and succession strategies, and legal requirement toward examining and understanding how their personal values, behaviours, and actions affect the organisations' they lead, the employees' they lead, and how in turn these affect the local and global communities within which they are embedded. IJBGE critically explores business and managerial strategies, actions, responsibilities and accountabilities for survival in a highly transparent and dynamic global world.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers, and managers
Contents
The journal will publish high quality papers from a wide variety of disciplinary orientations on the general subject of business governance and ethics. The journal style and dialogue will be inclusive and attempt to involve all those who are interested in issues of business governance and ethics; business leaders, managers, employees, stockholders, business regulators (government agencies, national and international) consumer groups, and academics.
The journal will publish theoretical (literature review based), empirical (work surveys and case studies) and critically reflective work (thought-leadership commentaries) describing and developing pertinent insights into the broad subject matter. The style will be, as far as possible, free from specialist jargon.
Subject coverage
- Philosophies of governance, theories of governance and governance structures
- Composition, functional responsibilities, liabilities and effectiveness of Boards
- Selection, re-numeration and motivation of Board Executives
- Legal and statutory requirements of Board of Directors
- Values, actions and behaviours of business leaders and employees
- Strategies for effective stakeholder governance
- Stakeholder accounting and measurement of business actions
- Ethics of business actions
- Values and assumptions of business
- Impact of business on global economic (uneven-even) development
- Business and exploitation of developing country labour markets
- Social and societal implications of corporate wealth, power and domination
- Representation of corporations in the media
- Reconciling employee rights, business rights and community rights
- Government-business relationship and public accountability
- The challenge of ownership and responsibility
- Transgressions in business practice
- Business strategies, ecological prosperity and sustainability
- Internet led democracy as reform of narrow business interests
- Media power, transparency and business conflict
- Challenge of rapid business action/reaction in the age of immediate media coverage
- Corporate image, identity and spin in the age of media
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Subscription Details
International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics (IJBGE) is to be published quarterly, four issues per volume, one volume per year.
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