Corporate governance begins with the board of directors, regardless of the size of the corporation and any other rules to which the corporation may be subject due to its status as a “public company.” Reference should still be made to the basic rules for the size of the board of directors and...

All companies, regardless of their size, business model and scope of activities, must understand and comply with a plethora of laws and regulations in diverse areas such as employment, health and safety, intellectual property, real property, tax, antitrust, finance, securities law and consumer...

Sustainable entrepreneurs may decide to measure and demonstrate the commitment of their organizations to social and environmental responsibility through participation in ratings agencies and ratings systems that have been created to give external stakeholders a means by which they can assess the...

Corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) needs to be moved from theory and aspiration into practice through a proactive program of implementation and integration within the organization and throughout its stakeholder sphere of influence. The United Nations Global Compact, which has been...

According to estimates based on data compiled and analyzed by the World Bank, the global population of women aged 65 and over as of 2020 was 397 million (an increase of 106 million from a decade earlier), representing 55% of the total global population of persons aged 65 and over (722 million)...

Much time and effort are spent, and rightly so, on the launch phase of a new company and decisions made and actions taken during that phase will impact the future of the business and how the focus of the members of the senior management team will change as the company evolves. The launch phase...

An organization is any group of people with a common objective. Simply put, two or more people may band together to form an organization because they determine that working together is a more effective means for creating value than if each of them continued to work separately. While a good deal...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...

While organizational performance is a much-discussed topic, the reality is that there is a good deal of confusion and argument regarding how it should be defined, conceptualized and measured. The traditional approach has been to focus on the ability of the organization to achieve its economic...

The members of any organization engage in a myriad of tasks and activities on a day-to-day basis. While each member has his or her own list of task responsibilities, the tasks and activities performed by various members are typically interrelated and require some level of collaboration. It is...