Tag: OECD
Ethics body issues warning to boards over AI accountability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a critical governance issue and must be firmly grasped by the board—not left to the tech team, says a report from the Institute of Business Ethics.
Tax transparency: compliance burden or reputation booster?
Boards could take the opportunity to turn transparency to their advantage. A penetrating light is being shone on the tax affairs of multinational entities—but tax transparency will encompass all businesses in time.
Responsible business conduct: the OECD way
Recent guidance from the OECD provides a valuable resource for businesses seeking to operate responsibly, implement appropriate due diligence procedures and so support their own long-term success.
Lawful impediment: company law and insider control
Does an increase in legal shareholder protection reduce insider control? Recent academic research finds that sometimes it does, but sometimes it does not.
OECD publishes guidance on responsible business due diligence
New guidelines have been produced on measures to be taken to ensure contracts include conditions on responsible business.
Sustainable expectations: how the ESG investment agenda is shifting
Investors are placing environmental, social and governance issues at the top of their agendas, and they expect companies to do the same.
Skills crisis threatens UK’s place in the industrial world, say CBI panellists
As technological evolution places innovation at the heart of industrial development and productivity, a high-level panel at the CBI’s annual conference warns the UK to improve its skills base or fall further behind.
‘Modest’ improvement in gender equality at board level, finds OECD
Subtle improvements have been made in gender equality at board level globally, but there are bigger gains where forced quotas are implemented, finds major new research.
OECD: governance a weapon in the battle against inequality
Chief of staff at the OECD argues improved governance forms part of the answer to rising inequality and a full recovery from the financial crisis.
Tax complexity is biggest compliance burden
Survey reveals complexity in European tax system is biggest compliance burden for companies, while there are significant doubts about impact of efforts to bear tax avoidance among multinationals.