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Benjamin Wagner

Theorien der Corporate Governance am Beispiel der Dieselgate-Affäre

This book provides easy access to formal guidance notes and other publications of third party institutions and organisations and supports cross referencing in the text. It aims to be a compendium handbook with a legal basis and will help the reader to: - understand the full range of issues which may face directors and those proposing to become directors - provide information and guidance on matters which boards may need to address in their decision making processes, including appendices detailing some practical checklists and a practical Glossary of terms with electronic links to the text aiding the accessibility of the work to all readers. &gt;It's an invaluable resource for company directors, company secretaries, and governance and HR professionals in organisations of all sizes, as well as their legal advisers, in house lawyers, company law practitioners, and financial advisers. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Rights and Duties of Directors

Management for Professionals

Navigating Uncertainty to Achieve Success

Risk Management Challenges and Strategies in Times of Change

Introduces a data-driven framework for measuring governance through a fourteen-component Macro-Governance Index, demonstrating its strong predictive power for national development outcomes and offering practical tools to diagnose governance gaps and guide policy interventions.
Every year, governments borrow trillions, spend billions on development programs, and publish volumes of economic statistics-yet no widely accepted framework exists for answering a deceptively simple question: is governance actually working? Traditional approaches rely on subjective expert assessments or narrowly focused indices that measure inputs rather than outcomes. Macro-Governance Theory proposes that governance can be measured with the same empirical rigor we bring to medicine, engineering, and economics-and that doing so is essential if citizens and policymakers are to hold institutions accountable for results. 

Drawing on 26 years of publicly available data across 170 countries, the book constructs the Macro-Governance Index (MGI)-a fourteen-component composite spanning infrastructure, connectivity, financial inclusion, human capital, security, institutional quality, and economic integration. The MGI correlates with the UN Human Development Index at r = 0.97, and this relationship is not driven by income alone: controlling for GNI, the framework retains substantial independent predictive power, confirming that governance infrastructure-not just wealth-determines whether nations deliver well-being to their citizens. 

The book reveals patterns that conventional measures miss. Novel metrics for credit access and household-level financial reach show that the effective economic gap between the Global North and Sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 70× rather than the 53× that standard income comparisons suggest-a hidden disparity with profound implications for development policy. A governance simulation framework models how investments in one dimension cascade through others, enabling policymakers to identify the highest-leverage interventions for their country's specific development stage. 

Seven detailed case studies-Singapore, Rwanda, Estonia, Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, and Lebanon-demonstrate how the framework diagnoses governance strengths and weaknesses in practice. An analysis of the ten fastest-rising nations reveals that while successful governance strategies differ radically across political systems, they share common patterns in infrastructure sequencing and institutional development that the MGI captures and quantifies. 

Designed for dual utility, the book serves as an analytical framework for researchers and policymakers and as an accessible assessment tool for citizens through the companion website grademygovernment.com. A full reproducibility dataset covering all 170 countries across seven benchmark years is included, making this not just an argument for governance science but its working prototype.

A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Improving Governance Across Nations

Macro-Governance Theory

Corporate Ordering explains how modern corporations navigate social conflict when law is incomplete, politics are polarized, and shareholders disagree about corporate purpose. Drawing on original case studies from ridesharing, climate sustainability, and artificial intelligence companies, the book reveals the internal governance systems corporations use to set standards, justify decisions, and monitor their impact. Moving beyond the familiar debates between shareholder primacy and stakeholder capitalism, the book offers a clear framework for understanding how corporate power actually operates in practice. Written for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and informed general readers, it provides a timely guide to corporate governance in a world where business decisions increasingly function as social policy.

How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict

Corporate Ordering

This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual foundations and legal and economic implications of EU Corporate Sustainability Law. Bringing together contributions from leading academics, jurists, and practitioners, it offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary perspective on this rapidly evolving regulatory field. With a focus on corporate actors, the volume examines how firms navigate emerging sustainability obligations while contributing to wider debates on the transformative role of EU regulation in global markets.The book is structured in three parts. The first analyses core due diligence instruments requiring firms to identify, prevent, and manage sustainability risks. The second examines transparency and disclosure frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and financial sector initiatives. The final part explores the extraterritorial reach of EU sustainability law, assessing its impact on global supply chains and third-country actors, including China and Latin America. Addressing the ‘Brussels Effect’ and key regulatory developments, this volume will be essential for scholars in law and economics, political economy, and financial regulation, as well as policymakers and practitioners.Gonzalo Larrea
 is Assistant Professor of Law at Utrecht University. His work focuses on EU corporate sustainability law, and he is the author of the book&nbsp;
 Climate Funds and Sustainable Development. Who Pays in the End?&nbsp;
 (2024). He holds a PhD from the European University Institute and is a qualified lawyer, with extensive experience at a Band 1 international law firm.
 Federica Agostini
 is Assistant Professor in Economic Law at Utrecht University and Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow. Her research examines how law shapes capital markets and sustainability transitions. She has advised institutions including the ECB and EBRD and publishes widely on corporate sustainability and financial regulation.
 Konstantinos Serdaris
 is Assistant Professor of European Economic Law at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute and is a qualified lawyer. His research focuses on EU financial and capital markets law, and he is the author of the book&nbsp;
 Regulating Primary Markets in the Capital Markets Union
 (2025).

This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual foundations and legal and economic implications of EU Corporate Sustainability Law. Bringing together contributions from leading academics, jurists, and practitioners, it offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary perspective on this rapidly evolving regulatory field. With a focus on corporate actors, the volume examines how firms navigate emerging sustainability obligations while contributing to wider debates on the transformative role of EU regulation in global markets.
 The book is structured in three parts. The first analyses core due diligence instruments requiring firms to identify, prevent, and manage sustainis Assistant Professor of Law at Utrecht University. His work focuses on EU corporate sustainability law, and he is the author of the book&nbsp;
 Climate Funds and Sustainable Development. Who Pays in the End?&nbsp;
 (2024). He holds a PhD from the European University Institute and is a qualified lawyer, with extensive experience at a Band 1 international law firmability risks. The second examines transparency and disclosure frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and financial sector initiatives. The final part explores the extraterritorial reach of EU sustainability law, assessing its impact on global supply chains and third-country actors, including China and Latin America. Addressing the ‘Brussels Effect’ and key regulatory developments, this volume will be essential for scholars in law and economics, political economy, and financial regulation, as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Critical Perspectives on a Novel Body of Law

EU Corporate Sustainability Law

Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

Aiming to identify the most effective tools and water governance innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation, this book examines some of the world's leading laboratories of non-urban water law and governance, evaluating the success of different governance forms, legal designs and institutional prescriptions.

Aiming to identify the most effective tools and water governance innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation, this book examines some of the world’s leading laboratories of non-urban water law and governance, evaluating the success of different governance forms, legal designs and institutional prescriptions.

Markets, Compliance and Technology

Next Generation Water Governance

Dreihundert deutsche Männer, schrieb Walther Rathenau zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, bestimmten die wirtschaftlichen Geschicke des Kontinents: gemeint war ein enges Geflecht aus Bankiers, Industriekapitänen und Lobbyisten, das sich mit dem Aufstieg von Firmen wie der Allianz, Krupp oder Siemens herausgebildet hatte. Man kannte einander, sprach miteinander – und sprach sich ab. Bis in die 1990er Jahre prägte dieses Netzwerk namens »Deutschland AG« die Politik und die Unternehmenskultur in der Bundesrepublik. Konstantin Richter montiert die Geschichten dieser Macher und Magnaten zu einer temporeichen szenischen Erzählung, einem Epos über Aufstieg und Niedergang der Deutschland AG von der Gründerzeit bis in die krisengebeutelte Gegenwart.

Aufstieg und Fall der Deutschland AG

Dreihundert Männer

The book shows how CEOs can create room for growth through three key roles in the CEO Office—CEO, Chief of Staff (CoS), and Executive Business Partner (EBP). Leading a company today means making constant decisions, solving problems, guiding employees, and planning for the future—without neglecting day‑to‑day operations. For many executives, this becomes a serious burden, as every added responsibility makes it harder to keep oversight and ensure everything runs as planned.The CEO Office is a structured leadership system that redistributes responsibility to increase clarity, speed, and impact. It was designed to reduce operational load, strengthen strategic decision-making, and coordinate internal processes so leaders regain time for what matters most—especially in complex situations. The three roles work together strategically, enabling clear task allocation.Learn how to future-proof your company despite a full to-do list while clearing your own head. Real-world examples from mid-sized businesses, practical frameworks, and ready-to-use checklists make the system directly applicable to your organization.Dan Bauer
 is a renowned impact entrepreneur and Senator in the Senate of the Economy, an elite circle of leaders from business, politics, and academia. Since 2022, he has chaired the Commission for the Digital Future. As a thought leader of a new economic paradigm, he actively drives the modernization of Germany.
 Katrin Stigge
 is a multipotentialite entrepreneur
 
 , business mentor, and professional author who actively shapes and advances the role of the Chief of Staff in the German‑speaking world. As the founder of the Swiss QOREX Business School and the Chief of Staff Community, she established the first German‑language executive education program for Chiefs of Staff.
 The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A&nbsp;subsequent&nbsp;human revision was done primarily in terms of content. 
 This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

The book shows how managing directors/ CEO create room for growth through the three key roles of the CEO Office – the CEO, the Chief of Staff (CoS), and the Executive Business Partner (EBP).Many tasks. Little time. Constant decisions.Anyone leading a company today has to take decisions at speed, solve problems, lead people, and think about tomorrow—all without losing sight of day‑to‑day operations. For many managing directors, this reality becomes a critical burden. With every additional responsibility, it becomes harder to maintain oversight and ensure that everything runs as planned.The CEO Office is a structured leadership system that redistributes responsibility to create greater clarity, speed, and impact. It is designed to reduce operational overload, strengthen strategic decision‑making, and coordinate internal processes so that leaders can regain time for what truly matters—especially in complex situations. The three roles within the CEO Office are strategically interlinked, enabling clear accountability and effective collaboration.Discover how to position your company for the future despite a full to‑do list—while also clearing your own head. Case studies from mid‑sized companies, practical frameworks, and ready‑to‑use checklists make the system immediately applicable, including in your organization.

Freedom to Grow - The System for Modern Top Management

CEO Office

Corporate purpose is a fixture of boardrooms, annual reports, executives' talk, and employer branding. Yet the average effect of corporate purpose on financial performance is zero. Some firms turn purpose into concrete practices and stronger performance. Others do not live by purpose standards and create incoherent demands, poor coordination, and weaker performance. How to be part of the former group is a strategic question. The CLARITY framework developed in this book offers an answer grounded in evidence. Purpose statements, however eloquently crafted, remain stagnant without the leadership practices that embed them in employees' daily experiences. CLARITY connects the employees' purpose-based leadership experience to seven levers of performance: Commitment, Legitimacy, Autonomy, Resourcefulness, Innovativeness, Trust, and You. Drawing on extensive survey response data, experiments, simulations, and interviews with leaders in over thirty corporations, Rodolphe Durand and Harrison Munro-Clark explain why purpose succeeds in some organisations and backfires in others. For each lever, a chapter quantifies expected returns, identifies specific blockers, and provides practical do's and don'ts. Through cases including Spotify, Novo Nordisk, Boeing, and BrewDog, Durand and Munro-Clark show the rewards of effective implementation and the costs of failure. Purpose is a strategic choice, yet it pays off only when leaders do the work. Rigorous and practical throughout, CLARITY is a guide for leaders at every level who want to close the gap between purpose on paper and in practice.

Leading with Purpose for Sustained Performance

Clarity

The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series

In today's complex regulatory landscape, compliance has transformed from a legal checkbox to a critical strategic function. This groundbreaking book reveals how boards and executives can leverage the evolving role of the Chief Compliance Officer to protect organizational value while driving sustainable growth.Drawing on exclusive research from the United Nations Global Compact PRME Initiative's Working Group on Anti-Corruption, this essential guide explores:<ul> <li>The hidden psychological factors that lead good professionals to make unethical decisions</li> <li>How to design evaluation and incentive systems that promote integrity rather than incentivize misconduct</li> <li>The strategic evolution of the CCO from legal technician to key executive influencer</li> <li>Practical frameworks for boards to effectively steer, coach, supervise, and audit compliance functions</li> <li>Cutting-edge approaches to managing both downside protection and upside opportunity through compliance excellence.</li> </ul>For board members, executives, and compliance professionals navigating increasingly complex regulatory environments, this book provides the actionable insights needed to transform compliance from a cost center into a strategic advantage that protects reputation, enhances culture, and creates sustainable value.Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Changing Role of the Chief Compliance Officer

Darf ein Unternehmen Stellen abbauen, obwohl es Gewinne macht? Soll Ihr Onlineshop Preise je nach Wohnort anpassen, weil der Algorithmus es kann? Und ist es in Ordnung, beim Discounter das Billigfleisch zu kaufen, solange man sich dabei unwohl fühlt?
Wirtschaftsethik beginnt nicht erst im Vorstandsbüro. Sie beginnt im Alltag: an der Supermarktkasse, im Bewerbungsgespräch, beim Blick auf die eigene Stromrechnung. Gewinn und Gewissen macht diese Verbindung sichtbar. In fünf Kapiteln führt Frank C. Maikranz durch die großen Ethiktheorien, entfaltet die Logik moralischer Dilemmata und wendet sie konsequent auf reale Wirtschaftsentscheidungen an. Wirecard, Boeing, McKinsey, OpenAI: Die Fallbeispiele stammen nicht aus der Theorie, sondern aus den Schlagzeilen.
Der didaktische Bogen reicht von den Grundbegriffen Moral und Ethik über Kohlbergs Stufenmodell und das Gefangenendilemma bis zu KI-Ethik, Klimagerechtigkeit und der Zukunft der Arbeit. Jedes Kapitel enthält Lernziele, Kontrollfragen und weiterführende Literatur.
Maikranz bringt zwei Perspektiven zusammen, die selten in einem Kopf vereint sind: lange Jahre als Unternehmensberater in der Wirtschaftspraxis und fast zwei Jahrzehnte als Hochschullehrer mit dem Anspruch, komplexe Zusammenhänge verständlich und gelegentlich unbequem auf den Punkt zu bringen.
Ein Buch für Studierende der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, für Führungskräfte mit Entscheidungsverantwortung und für alle, die wissen wollen, ob sich Gewinn und Gewissen vertragen. Die Antwort ist nicht einfach. Aber sie ist lösbar.

Eine Wirtschaftsethik in einer Welt ohne einfache Antworten

Gewinn und Gewissen

Theorien der Corporate Governance am Beispiel der Dieselgate-Affäre

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