The book, now in its Second Edition, continues to deal with various issues and factors underlying the corporate governance and suggests their remedies. The book addresses the contemporary ethical, legal and environmental issues and concepts in the corporate business world. It discusses the various codes of conduct, concepts, guidelines, rules and regulations of various legislations in relation to ethical business practices.
The book is designed for the postgraduate students of Commerce, and Management. It would also be useful to the students of Law, Chartered Accountancy (CA), Company Secretaryship (CS), and ICWA. Besides, it should serve admirably as a reference for corporate professionals, administrators, and practising managers.
KEY FEATURES :
Provides CSR practices by Indian corporates.
Gives an account of the various legislations governing corporate social responsibility.
Highlights contributions made to CSR by corporates through NGOs.
Provides guidelines for ethics to be maintained by various professionals.
NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION :
Includes the concepts of corporate sustainability, sustainability reporting, and global reporting initiative, corporate governance voluntary guidelines, corporate governance models, new initiatives in governance, etc.
Incorporates a topic on Board Management in which the role of directors, types of directors, duties and responsibilities of directors, training for the Board, evaluation of board’s functioning, corporate democracy, etc., have been discussed.
V. BALACHANDRAN (PhD, FCS) is Professor, Corporate Secretaryship, School of Management, and former Director of Distance Education, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. He has over 26 years of teaching experience at the postgraduate level. A Fellow Member of organizations such as the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), New Delhi, Professor Balachandran was conferred with Certificate of Achievement for Academic Performance by Alagappa University in 2006, Rashtriya Vidya Saraswathi Puraskar by the International Institute of Education and Management, New Delhi in March 2010, and Lifetime Achievement Award for Educational Excellence by Indian Economic Development and Research Association, New Delhi in August 2010. Dr. Balachandran has published many articles in reputed journals and authored/co-authored books in the taxation and company and business law areas.|V. CHANDRASEKARAN (PhD) is formerly Accounts Manager with The Hindu, Chennai. He has written several articles on various subjects of importance and has presented a paper on corporate responsibility at London Metropolitan University. Besides, he has been teaching related subjects for the last 20 years at various institutes. A resource person of Alagappa University, Dr. Chandrasekaran has authored a book on Corporate Accounting.
