This book presents theoretical and practical considerations on whether it would be feasible to adopt an international treaty on business and human rights to address corporate human rights abuses.

While promoting a holistic approach and highlighting the role of human motivation, the authors show how financial and strategic performance control processes can be integrated to create and improve internal strategic alignment. This book conceptualises the management control concepts, methods and practices used to manage both financial and strategic performance.

After affecting all sectors of commerce, the digital revolution has now hit the financial sector, a sector that is protected by a specific regulatory environment.

Risk taking in business contributes towards innovation while excessive risk taking is associated with corporate failure. This book illustrates how insurance against personal liability of the manager threatens – but also benefits – society and the economy

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis. But is there also a connection between private law and the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis? This thought-provoking book shows that private law provides as many useful institutions, mechanisms and instruments against the emergence of such a crisis as pub...

This book gives you a systematic and comprehensive overview of all specific aspects and methods related to the valuation of small and medium-sized companies, while it also presents alternative ways to look at the valuation and valuation process using practical cases and examples. It not only presents a wide range of techniques to determine the value of a business, but also offers you interesting insights to challenge the different traditional ...

This booklet contains the lecture given by Paul Jorion at the occasion of his acceptance of the chair “Stewardship of Finance” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

This book deals with the endeavor of national and supranational legislators to develop more attractive corporate legal forms and investment frameworks. It focuses on some recent national corporate law reforms, the newly introduced European legal form Societas Europaea and the choice of law in corporate debt securities.

This book describes the most attractive features of Luxembourg’s favourable tax system: the participation exemption, the holding companies or the legislation on venture capital, securitization and investment funds. These regimes are part of a well-balanced and competitive tax system, which may be attractive to both high net worth individuals and corporates.