Corporations As Custodians Of The Public Good

Author : Thérèse Rudebeck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030132250
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good? written by Thérèse Rudebeck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives. In various geographies, companies spearhead a quest for more sustainable water management within and beyond their own operations. This book critically examines such strategies and provides an overarching analysis of the effects that mounting corporate involvement has had on the global water discourse. More specifically, it explains why companies from the food, beverage, textile, and mining sectors have started to incorporate water management objectives into their business strategies, how companies work in partnerships with other stakeholders to realize these objectives, and how these actions acquire wider political legitimacy. It presents insightful interview material from business leaders and other high-level stakeholders. Readers will gain the necessary knowledge to develop a critical view and respond appropriately.

Author : Joyce Valdovinos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000426661
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance written by Joyce Valdovinos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the global developments behind the rise of transnational water corporations, which have gone from being local operators to becoming dynamic and powerful actors within an interconnected transnational space for water. This book focuses on the French groups Veolia and Suez, two of the most prominent private actors in global water governance, and the development and adaptation strategies of both companies in the cities of Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Atlanta, and Milwaukee over the past 30 years. Drawing on over 100 interviews conducted with corporate executives, public authorities, and local users of water services, this book moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of the public-private debate and develops a theoretical framework that analyzes the economic and political power wielded by transnational business actors in global water governance. Not only does the book explain how Veolia and Suez strategically mobilize resources at difference scales in order to expand their global operations, but it also provides a nuanced picture of how state regulation remains of central importance to understanding the dynamics and evolution of the global water sector. Students and scholars interested in business and the environment, including public-private partnerships, business management and transnational corporations, and water governance, will find this book of great interest as will professionals and policymakers working in these fields.

Author : Barton H. Thompson Jr.
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503637352
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liquid Asset written by Barton H. Thompson Jr. and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource. Governments dominated water management throughout the twentieth century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts that store water when available and move that water to areas with increasing populations and economies. Private businesses sometimes played a part in managing water, but typically in a supporting position as consultants or contractors. Today, given the global need for innovative new technologies, institutions, and financing to solve the freshwater crisis, private businesses and markets are playing a rapidly expanding role, bringing both new approaches and new challenges to a historically public field. In Liquid Asset, Barton H. Thompson, Jr. examines the growing position of the private sector in the "business of water." Thompson seeks to understand the private sector's involvement in meeting the water needs of both humans and the environment, looks at the potential risks that growing private involvement poses to the public interest in water, and considers the obstacles that private organizations face in trying to participate in a traditionally governmental sector. Thompson provides a richly detailed analysis to foster both improved public policy and responsible business behavior. As the book demonstrates, the story of private businesses and water offers a window into the serious challenges facing freshwater today, and their potential solutions.

Author : Guillermo C. Jimenez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy written by Guillermo C. Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349200972
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Institutions in a Dynamic Society: Search for a New Frontier written by Takashi Shiraishi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of the proceedings and papers presented at an international conference on the organization of economic institutions in a dynamic society which includes detailed comment and discussion sections following each lecture.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264200428
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Governance Boards of Directors of State-Owned Enterprises An Overview of National Practices written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on good practices concerning boards of directors of state-owned enterprises. It draws on national practices from over 30 economies.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264173706
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Principles of Corporate Governance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These principles of corporate governance, endorsed by the OECD Council at Ministerial level in 1999, provide guidelines and standards to insure inclusion, accountability and abilit to attract capital.

Author : William A. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000544818
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalized Industry and Public Ownership written by William A. Robson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1960, Nationalized Industry and Public Ownership is concerned with the state of nationalized industries in Britain in the context of the wider sphere of public enterprise in the world. It critically examines themes like the motives and background of nationalization; the state of public corporation in Britain; public utilities as monopoly; parliamentary debates and questions regarding government control; the idea of public accountability; the status of consumers’ councils, and the link between labour relations and public ownership. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of public administration, political economy, British economy, labour economics and British labour history.

Author : Colin Mayer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192559222
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prosperity written by Colin Mayer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous and damaging consequences for our economies, environment, politics, and societies. In this urgent call for reform, Prosperity challenges the fundamentals of business thinking. It sets out a comprehensive new agenda for establishing the corporation as a unique and powerful force for promoting economic and social wellbeing in its fullest sense - for customers and communities, today and in the future. First Professor and former Dean of the Säid Business School in Oxford, Mayer is a leading figure in the global discussion about the purpose and role of the corporation. In Prosperity, he presents a radical and carefully considered prescription for corporations, their ownership, governance, finance, and regulation. Drawing together insights from business, law, economics, science, philosophy, and history, he shows how the corporation can realize its full potential to contribute to economic and social wellbeing of the many, not just the few. Prosperity tells us not only how to create and run successful businesses but also how policy can get us there and fix our broken system.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309120608
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinical Data as the Basic Staple of Health Learning written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful development of clinical data as an engine for knowledge generation has the potential to transform health and health care in America. As part of its Learning Health System Series, the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to discuss expanding the access to and use of clinical data as a foundation for care improvement.