Grondslagen van corporate governance behandelt op een geïntegreerde benadering de juridische, economische en financiële aspecten van behoorlijk ondernemningsbestuur in samenhang, aan de hand van de verschillende mechanismen en actoren in het systeem van corporate governance.
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Corporate Social Responsibility affects Corporate Governance as it stretches the accountability of companies beyond its traditional boundaries. This however may conflict with the corporate objective of maximizing stockholder wealth. The paper provides an overview of various academic theories and corporate attitudes on this issue and discusses the merits and disadvantages of the two main governance modes: the stockholder mode and the stakeholder mode.
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'Corporate designmanagement' is een vlot geschreven en zeer overzichtelijk standaardwerk op het gebied van corporate designmanagement. Een sterke visuele identiteit is voor een organisatie een doeltreffend middel om zich te positioneren en te profileren. Voorwaarde is wel dat de visuele identiteit duidelijk wordt geregisseerd. Corporate designmanagement zorgt daarvoor. Dit boek daagt de lezer uit om een eigen visie op corporate design te ontwikkelen en om deze visie in de praktijk vorm te geven. Niet alleen krijgt de lezer een heldere uitleg van begrippen als identiteit, imago, huisstijl, brands, merkbouw en design audit. Ook wordt beschreven hoe deze begrippen succesvol kunnen worden toegepast. En hoe een huisstijl van een organisatie wordt ontwikkeld en gemanaged. In deze herziene druk is er meer aandacht voor het verschil tussen basiselementen zoals logo, kleur, typografie en beeld en toepassingsgebieden oftewel de dragers van de huisstijl. Denk hierbij aan brochures, websites en natuurlijk visitekaartjes. Ook zijn er meer cases en checklists toegevoegd. 'Corporate designmanagement' is niet alleen een zeer toegankelijk en compleet studieboek, maar bewijst ook in de praktijk goede diensten.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important consideration in tourism and hospitality management, yet extensive empirical studies on how it is implemented in developing country’s context are lacking. Using qualitative methodology, this article addresses this knowledge gap by exploring CSR practices among hotels and accommodation providers in Malawi. Our findings demonstrate that a broad-based CSR agenda is slowly being pursued by certain firms although corporate philanthropy remains the major area of focus for most of the considered firms. The article further demonstrates differences in the choice of CSR agenda firms pursue can be influenced by the nature of firm’s ownership. Whereas locally owned and managed firms showed a strong orientation towards philanthropic-based CSR agenda, foreign owner/mangers favoured a broad-based CSR agenda.
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Although there has been an enduring interest in corporate identity and image management, there is relatively little systematic empirical research on the topic. Large due to the diffuse interpretations, and dubious denotation that have characterized the subject of corporate identity so far, the authors present an integrative conceptual framework of dimensions and determinants of corporate identity management. This framework and its constructs specify the concept of corporate identity and can be used to a predictive basis to guide, frame and model empirical research
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Corporate reputation is becoming increasingly important for firms; social media platforms such as Twitter are used to convey their message. In this paper, corporate reputation will be assessed from a sustainability perspective. Using sentiment analysis, the top 100 brands of the Netherlands were scraped and analyzed. The companies were registered in the sustainable industry classification system (SICS) to perform the analysis on an industry level. A semantic search tool called Open Semantic Desktop Search was used to filter through the data to find keywords related to sustainability and corporate reputation. Findings show that companies that tweet more often about corporate reputation and sustainability receive overall a more positive sentiment from the public.
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Anyone who wants to understand the decisions businesses take and how these affect their shareholders needs to study [some level of] corporate finance. But most textbooks are too technical and too specialist for most people’s needs. This book is written for undergraduate students, especially in non-financial business related disciplines. Studying it will offer you a solid grasp of the key concepts of corporate finance without having to deal with all the intricacies discussed in the standard textbooks. Professionals will benefit from the straightforward approach of this book too.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a research model to investigate corporate visual identity (CVI) management from an organisational perspective. It is assumed that characteristics of the organisation and of the way a CVI is managed will affect consistency of CVI. Design/methodology/approach - The model was tested in a survey carried out among employees in 20 Dutch organisations. Structural equation modelling with AMOS was conducted to get insight into the various influences and relationships. Findings - CVI management characteristics - socialisation processes related to CVI, knowledge of CVI strategy, and CVI tools and support - have a strong impact on the consistency of CVI, and organisational characteristics affect the way CVI is managed. With the exception of the openness and dynamics of an organisation, no supporting evidence was found for a direct relationship between organisational characteristics and CVI consistency. Research limitations/implications - CVI has been measured by the judgement of the respondents, all employees of the organisation concerned. Therefore the measure was the perceived consistency of CVI. Further research could include a visual audit and the perception of external stakeholders towards the visual identity. There was no distinction examined among the main corporate visual identity and sub- or product brands. The study was conducted in the Netherlands, where the Dutch term huisstijl is unambiguous and clearly related to the corporate brand or identity. Future research can take different brands into account or can broaden the concept of CVI (including cultural aspects, language, rituals, myths, etc.). Practical implications - The results indicate that CVI management matters, that CVI management is related to more general organisational characteristics, but that communication managers nevertheless have a considerable amount of freedom in determining the way they manage their CVI. Originality/value - Corporate visual identity has received little attention in research and hardly been studied at all from the perspective of this paper. This paper has value to both researchers in the fields of corporate identity and organisational identity, as well as professionals involved in managing the corporate identity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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This paper examines the changing understandingof corporate social responsibility (CSR) by looking atthree aspects: the growing public demands regardingcorporate behaviour, the role of government in“promoting” or “requesting” the socially responsiblecorporate behaviour, and the attempts of business todeal with changing demands.
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This article extends the corporate social performance (CSP) model by studying the role of governance structures and governance systems in shaping corporate social responsibility. The authors argue that a governance perspective offers a fruitful research strategy both to study empirically how firms balance the competing moral frameworks and political philosophies that are part and parcel of defining their role in society and to further the theoretical integration of the descriptive and normative perspectives in the business and society field. They illustrate the potential of this research strategy with a comparative case study of processes of responsiveness at four Dutch banks with markedly different governance structures. This study shows how governance systems and structures both enable and constrain corporate responsibility and responsiveness. The authors conclude with a proposal to reorient the CSP model to harness the integrative potential of studying corporate social responsibility through a governance lens.
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