18 books like Corruption in international business

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The internationalisation of corruption Clare Fletcher · 2012 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Corruption scandals hit the headlines all around the world, across a diverse range of institutional, organisational and cultural settings. Corruption is a major obstacle to political, social and economic development - its 'internationalisation' has had profound implications for counter corruption efforts. The Internationalisation of Corruption provides readers with an analytical framework with… Shares: Pratiques déloyales, Corruption, Business enterprises, Corrupt practices

Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials Stuart A. McCrary · 2010 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate An essential guide to corporate financeUnderstanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk.Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials presents the material by example, using an extended scenario involving a new business… Shares: Business enterprises, Corporations

Black mass Dick Lehr · 2001 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. Connolly had an idea, a scheme that might bring Bugler into the FBI fold and John Connolly into the Bureau's big leagues. But Bulger had… Shares: Pratiques déloyales, Corruption, Corrupt practices, True Crime

Red card Ken Bensinger · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"-- The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal… Shares: Corruption, White-collar Crime, Corrupt practices, True Crime

Financial Valuation James R. Hitchner · 2003 · 1308p · ≈ 43h · Moderate Praise for Financial Valuation "This Second Edition addresses virtually all of the recent hot topics in business valuation, and there are many of them since the first edition. Most chapters are updated with new material, including, especially, the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report as an alternative to Ibbotson's risk premium data. As with the first edition, the authors are very well-known… Shares: Business enterprises, Corporations

The Appeal John Grisham · 2008 · ★ 3.7 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Carl Trudeau is very unhappy that the Mississippi court system has ruled against his chemical company. His company was accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply of a small town thus causing a large outbreak of cancer in the community. He proceeds to buy a seat on the Supreme Court by recruiting, manipulating and financing a candidate who he hopes will be sympathtic to his company… Shares: Corporations, Corrupt practices

The Constant Gardener John le Carré · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career… Shares: Corporations, Corrupt practices

Today's white-collar crime Hank J. Brightman · 2009 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written as a text for undergraduate courses, this book appeals to instructors interested in teaching the field of white-collar crime, both from a matter-of-fact investigative perspective as well as a decidedly academic endeavor. Accordingly, it goes beyond discussing the basic theories and typologies of commonly-encountered offenses such as fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and currency… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

The Moneychangers Arthur Hailey · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Chronique d?une banque et du monde financier Shares: White-collar Crime, Corrupt practices

Syndromes of Corruption Michael Johnston · 2005 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A sophisticated analysis of four main types of corruption in developed and developing countries. Shares: Corruption, True Crime

Financial valuation workbook James R. Hitchner · 2003 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Exploring valuation theory, the consensus view on application, and the tools to apply it Financial Valuation workbook shows the appropriate way to prepare and present business valuations with a strong emphasis on applications and models. A wealth of examples, checklists, and models helps the reader understand the material and design real valuation projects-a must-have reference for all valuation… Shares: Business enterprises, Corporations

Corruption and Development Sarah Bracking · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Since the 1990s, anti-corruption discourse and policy has become an unquestioned moral crusade, but campaigns that focus on eliminating corruption often have negative effects for good governance and political cultures across the developing world. This collection critically examines policy and practice in the field of corruption and anti-corruption, interrogating development assistance policy for… Shares: Business ethics, True Crime

State Tectonics Malka Older · 2018 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking… Shares: Corporations, Corrupt practices

Fatal System Error Joseph Menn · 2010 · ★ 3.4 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs,… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

Billion Dollar Whale Bradley Hope & Tom Wright · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics. 75,000 first printing. "What does it take to steal $5 billion? In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

It's Not about the Truth Don Yaeger · 2007 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward. It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive… Shares: Corrupt practices, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares: True Crime

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl who finds herself attracted to one of her fathers business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies. Shares: True Crime

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