International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

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Issues of governance, responsibility and accountability are becoming increasing important as the world, simultaneously, becomes dominated by corporations, interconnected via forces of globalisation and transparent through heightened media attention and the rise in internet-led democracy. Companies, and in particular leaders of business, can no longer hide from their responsibilities to wider stakeholder community by claims of ignorance of corporate malpractices and of failure. Boards of directors are being increasing made responsible for both the successes and failures of their companies, as well as their own conduct and behaviours. Actions of business have increasingly become a concern not just for shareholders but also to the wider community at large. Business governance is no longer just about running the company as efficiently as possible in narrow cost and profit terms but about managing the wider responsibilities. This means that company directors need to move beyond narrow corporate governance concerns that simply deal with their functional roles and responsibilities, their salaries and succession strategies and legal requirement, towards examining and understanding how their personal values, behaviours, and actions affect the organisations they lead, the employees they lead, and how in turn these affect the local and global communities within which they are embedded. IJBGE provides a highly professional forum to address these issues.