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The Voice
(Paperback)
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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This book introduces readers to the main types of corporate
sustainability practices. The first section examines both the
ratings provided by international agencies and the various ESG
(Environmental, Social and Government) indexes existing at 2021. In
turn, the second part empirically investigates the relationship
between the level of corporate sustainability and corporate
financial performance among the large companies listed on the Milan
Exchange FTSE-MIB 40 index for 2015-2019. The book offers a
comprehensive overview of current sustainability concepts and
practices and illustrates how various companies are seeking to
integrate them in their competitive strategy. Further, it fills a
gap in the extant literature by analysing the origins, historical
evolution and structure of the main rating agencies and ESG
indexes. In addition, the empirical analysis of corporate
sustainability's impact on companies' financial performance reveals
the importance of collegial leadership - a commonly found feature
of Italian family businesses that has not been considered in
previous studies - as a moderating factor for reconciling
sustainability initiatives and performance at family-run firms.
This timely book examines the effects of financial liberalization
in the more advanced economies of Southeast Asia. The book also
analyses the degree to which emerging and transitional economies in
East and South Asia can benefit from this example. The weakness of
the banking sector is examined in order to explain the reasons
behind the currency crisis and to prescribe policies to avoid a
similar episode in the future. Further, the book documents the
individual steps taken to liberalize the economies over a period of
about 20-30 years in each country. The analyses reveal that
liberalization led to high growth in economies undertaking such
reforms while unwillingness to take such reforms appear to have led
to poor growth and hence low social development. This finding
contradicts the common belief that liberalization led to the
financial crisis and then to growth collapse. An efficient and
liberalized financial sector is an essential precondition for
promoting and accelerating economic growth and welfare. Arguments
supporting this policy are based on the experience of Southeast
Asian economies, particularly the pioneers such as Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. This has led some less developed
countries in East and South Asia to initiate the process of
financial sector reforms and to realize the potential benefits of
such reforms. The authors analyse the reform process and the
lessons to be drawn from the experiences of these economies in
their quest for sustained development in East and South Asia.
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