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Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main characteristics and historical peculiarities of the corporate governance development worldwide titled "Evolution of Corporate Governance in Banks".

ISBN 978-966-96872-5-7

Editors: Alexander N. Kostyuk, Michele Pizzo, Mitsuru Mizuno

Published: 2012

Number of pages: 294

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: The eleven contributions collected in this book analyze the evolution of banks’ corporate governance rules worldwide. The first chapter is dedicated to the US banking and financial system and describes the substantial changes in the corporate governance framework applied to those companies operating where the recent financial crisis had begun. Subsequently, attention shifts to the European institutional context through an analysis of the evolution in the banks’ corporate governance rules adopted in several countries such as Denmark, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Reactions to the financial crisis by market participants and policy-makers in the far eastern hemisphere of the world are described by two contributions on Japanese and Malaysian banks. Finally, the examination is completed by assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the internal and external governance mechanisms implemented by Egyptian banks and United Arab Emirates’ financial institutions.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on banking systems development in European and Asian countries titled "Euroasian Perspectives Of The Banking Systems Development".

ISBN 978-966-96872-3-7

Editors: Oleksandr Kostyuk, Michelle Lin, Ghassan Omet

Published: 2011

Number of pages: 167

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: The aim of the book was to improve the level of understanding of the reasons of causes of banking crisis by scientific as well as business communities of the world countries. Deductions and recommendations made in the book will be accepted with great interest by regulators of bank services market. World financial crisis is a great challenge to the community, its ability to consolidate efforts of the representatives of different nations and resist destructive influence of crisis phenomena. International cooperation and knowledge as the result of cooperation are remedies for the crisis. Therefore the world scientific community should be in front of struggle with the crisis as science is the bearer of the community aspiration to new knowledge.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Governance: An International Outlook".

ISBN 978-966-96872-2-7

Author: Alexander N. Kostyuk, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Rodolfo Apreda

Published: 2011

Number of pages: 401

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: This book is devoted exclusively to the international context of corporate governance. Contributors representing many countries of the world were certain about defining the most important, even critical issues of corporate governance for the countries considered. The issues which are considered in details are about ownership structures, corporate control, board of directors, director compensation, corporate law, stock market and corporate governance reforms, etc. Theoretical essentials are considered too. Conceptual aspects of corporate governance are explored with regard to the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and shareholder rights. Generally our contributors were successful in developing the agenda for making positive conclusion about the link explored. International comparison of corporate governance practices was quite detailed. Therefore, the book makes its outstanding contribution to development of the importance of corporate governance as a mechanism to improve both firm performance and protect shareholder rights.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book on corporate governance titled "Anti-crisis paradigms of corporate governance in banks: a new institutional outlook".

Introduction to the book is written by Professor Oliver Williamson, a Nobel Prize winner 2009.

ISBN 978-966-96872-1-0

Authors: Alexander N. Kostyuk, Fumiko Takeda, Kaoru Hosono

Published: 2010

Number of pages: 464

Cover: hardcover

Synopsis: This book shows that there are differences in the approach to corporate governance adopted in individual countries and in the statutory provisions that underpin governance arrangements. In each instance, however, statute tends to be fixed - or relatively fixed - whereas governance practices reflected in codes tend to be more responsive to changes in approach and application. The nature of change needed to governance arrangements will vary across countries and will depend upon the extent to which behavioral shortfalls in particular companies can be said to have been a contributory factor in their finding themselves more exposed to financial shocks. The lesson from the financial crisis is that the fundamentals behind the “comply or explain” approach remain as strong as ever. The question is how best their application should evolve and whether there are changes in approach relevant to the banking industry that merit broader application.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Governance". This is a textbook aimed at postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners.

ISBN: 978-966-96872-0-3

Edited by: Alexander N. Kostyuk, Udo C. Braendle, Rodolfo Apreda

Published: 2007

Number of pages: 379

Cover: hardcover

Synopsis: The textbook tries to cover several topics in the interdisciplinary area of corporate governance. The financial crises of Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat at the beginning of the 21st century have heated up the discussion about the proper governance of companies. Corporate governance is a highly topical subject which concerns the management of large companies and the way in which they use their power and influence in society today. It encompasses a wide range of issues extending from company law to business ethics.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a new book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Board Practices".

ISBN: 966-96566-1-3

Edited by: Alexander N. Kostyuk

Published: 2006

Number of pages: 153

Cpver: paperback

Synopsis: Boards of directors are a crucial part of the corporate structure. They are link between the people who provide capital (the shareholders) and the people who use that capital to create value (the managers). Lack of the board practice transparency, board accountability, professionalism and social responsibility are the major problems of the corporate board practices in Ukraine. These are the cornerstones the corporate board practices to begin its move forward, toward the best corporate governance practices generally accepted in the world. These are the issues this book is going to deliver to the reading audience.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book on corporate governance titled "Corporate Governance in a transition economy".

ISBN: 966-96566-0-5

Edited by: Alexander N. Kostyuk

Published: 2005

Number of pages: 150

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: The new millennium presented citizens of the corporate world – shareholders, executives, employees and others – with the bankruptcies of Enron and other giants of the most developed segment of the corporate world – the USA. Corporate America, which was perceived before as an example to follow, showed the corporate world citizens many disadvantages in the existing systems and instruments of corporate governance. This rather deflated the trust of shareholders in the existing principles and concepts of corporate governance both in developed and developing countries, including Ukraine. The results of the research, presented in this book are very important for Ukrainian joint stock companies, which suffer from agent conflicts. An increase in agent costs reduces growth opportunities at the market. Therefore, after developing corporate governance mechanisms, such as executive compensation, board of directors and its committees, financial reporting and executive monitoring, it will be possible to say that this research is based on the principle of social responsibility, deflated strongly as a result of the bankruptcies in the USA and worldwide.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the intellectual capital reporting in the non-profit sector titled "Intellectual Capital Reporting Practices in the Non-Profit Sector".

ISBN 978-966-1569-03-3

Authors: Giovanni Bronzetti, Romilda Mazzotta, Pina Puntillo, Antonella Silvestri, Stefania Veltri

Published: 2011

Number of pages: 138

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: The book focuses on Intellectual Capital (IC) reporting practices within the non-profit sector. The term is an umbrella term, which includes not only the non-profit (or third) sector in strict terms but also all sectors different from the for-profit sector. Nowadays, in knowledge–based economy, knowledge is critical to for-profit as it is to non-profit organizations (NPOs). In a new competitive environment, NPOs are requested to manage the existing resources efficiently and effectively and to create, maintain and develop new resources based on knowledge. In the book we argue that IC, the dynamic and firm-specific system of knowledge-related resources, provides the right conceptual framework to define and systematize intangible resources and, moreover, that an IC report can be considered the right strategic tool to measure, manage and report IC information to NPO’s stakeholders.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the financial analyst activity titled "INFORM AND DEFORM: Do financial analysts mean what they say?".

ISBN 978-966-9686-73-2

Authors: Enrico Maria Cervellati Luca Piras

Published: 2012

Number of pages: 112

Cover: paperback

Synopsis:Information is important, since it is the basic ingredient of human reasoning, knowledge and, therefore, action. Particularly it is important in social behavior. Investing in the financial market is definitely a social behavior, requiring skills and expertise, which combine, generate the “art of market” as William Sharpe said. Information is a complex combination of many parts in which data, frame, language, credibility, metaphors, culture, traditions, and so on, contributes to determine individual and social decision making. Thus understanding market theory imply a profound and critical approach to information, to how it is conveyed to investors, to behavioral drivers that influence professional information providers and related biases and, finally to the way individual investors acquire and use it. The introduction in the discussion of the idea of complexity raises the need to determine the conditions for the system to seek and, eventually, to find its equilibrium. This is the final goal of economic models and theories, while in the real life, disequilibrium and chaos seem to be the rule. If this is the case a useful interpretation tool is represented by entropy. Entropy is a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the intellectual capital "Competitive Intelligence As An Economic Phenomenon".

ISBN 978-966-96872-4-1

Author: Alexander Maune

Published: 2015

Number of pages: 133

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: In today`s fast-paced, high technology business environment, technological advances, competitor actions and inactions, customer and supplier intentions and behaviours, legislative activity and a host of other activities are among elements that compete for a manager`s attention on a daily basis. A manager`s ability to master all of the possible consequences of these activities will directly affect the development, growth and quality of a firm`s business and its ability to sustain its growth. The key to any successful strategy is the ability to identify, develop and sustain a competitive advantage with reference to competitors. The book deals with the relationship that exists between competitive intelligence and firm competitiveness through literature review, explores how competitive intelligence has been an important contributor of growth in banks in Zimbabwe and how the banks are making use of competitive intelligence for such growth and provides a historical overview of competitive intelligence development in South Africa

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the corporate governance in public utility services companies in Italy "Corporate Governance and Venture Capital in Public Utility Services Companies".

ISBN 978-966-96872-5-8

Authors: Franco Ernesto Rubino, Maurizio Rija, Graziella Sicoli, Paolo Tenuta

Published: 2016

Number of pages: 180

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: Recent financial scandals have highlighted the topic of corporate governance and the need for greater transparency and veracity of economic financial communication provided by companies, particularly by listed companies. In recent years, also due to the effect of different collapses of multinational companies held to be solid, the issue of corporate governance is again in the spotlight. The failure of governance and accounting mechanisms of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat, arriving at the Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs scandals, as well as the structural changes which have regarded the financial system and, in particular, the growing recourse to the capital markets for the finding of funding sources, have led to the need for greater transparency. This book addresses the topic of public services, which not only cover an important role in the attitude to the satisfaction of the needs of collective interest but also constitute a particular category of assets whose use is of important social interest in modern States, under the occupational profile, of investments and of economic development. The study, conducted by the authors, allowed them to investigate the communication quality of companies operating in the public utilities sector listed on the Italian stock exchange.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the rural entrepreneurship in South Africa "Rural Entrepreneurship Promotional Strategy in South Africa: Concepts, Practice and Theories".

ISBN: 978-966-96872-6-5

Author: Dr L. M. Lekhanya

Number of pages: 120

Published: 2016

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: This book provides an analysis of the developments of rural entrepreneurship using the case study of a developing country. In this book the underlying message expressed is that the rural enterprises’ sector should modify and improve its entrepreneurial marketing orientation.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book that describes main practices of the corporate governance using South African health sector as a case study " Governance in the Public Health Sector: A Changing Environment".

ISBN: 978-966-96872-7-2

Author: Dr. Melody Brauns, Faculty of Public Management, Law and Economics at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa.

Number of pages: 116

Published: 2016

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: This book approaches the macroeconomic problem of the healthcare sector governance based on the case study of the developing country. The data analysis method for this book is meta-analysis. Various documents were examined, such as academic literature, legislation, policies, managerial procedures, protocols, statistical reports, and so forth, in order to elicit meaning, gain understanding and develop empirical knowledge. The procedure entailed finding, selecting, appraising and synthesising data contained in these different types of documents. This study undertook an in-depth analysis of legislation and policies pertaining to public sector reform with particular reference to the healthcare sector. Datasets and publications from independent research outfits and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) focusing on public healthcare and others, were analysed. Thus, the book will be interesting for all who are working in the field of public governance in general and heal care sector in particular.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book focused on high tech-companies, with a particular view on Tuscany scenario titled "Business Angels: Signals for High-Tech Companies".

ISBN: 978-966-96872-8-9

Author: Giuseppina Iacoviello

Number of pages: 93

Published: 2017

Cover: paperback

Synopsis: The author investigates why companies pursue growth through the choice of non-traditional sources of funding from a perspective based on (re)interpreting the concept of funding in the light of upheavals affecting the market in its multitudinous facets. The book is a fruitful and interesting reading both for researchers, entrepreneurs, managers and economists, who wish to know and learn more about the matter.

Publishing house Virtus Interpress introduces a book focused on the national CG challenges and industrial CG challenges as well titled "Corporate Governance: New Challenges and Opportunities".

ISBN: 978-617-7309-00-9

Edited by: Alexander N. Kostyuk, Udo Braendle, Vincenzo Capizzi

Number of pages: 315

Published: 2017

Cover: hardcover

Synopsis: Good corporate governance undoubtedly is a key to sustainable private sector development and a basic element for healthy firms. Since the crisis started in 2008 many challenges were addressed to the companies worldwide. Recently a corporate governance landscape faced numerous challenges and changed remarkably. This book represents a collaborative effort of the contributors from 18 countries (the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France etc.) to assess the state of corporate governance around the world in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.