Corporate Integrity and Accountability
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Corporate Integrity and Accountability

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Corporate Integrity and Accountability

About this book

The ethical and legal scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and many other businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia have shaken people?s confidence in business. Corporate Integrity and Accountability seeks to address questions of corporate integrity as they arise for financial reporting, executive compensation, globalization, and business ethics itself. In so doing it asks the following questions: 
  • What is the current meaning of corporate integrity?
  • How should we go about analyzing and responding to unethical and corrupt behavior both at home and abroad? 
  • What measures can be undertaken by corporations within their own walls to address these problems? 
  • What groups and perspectives need to be taken into account with regard to CEO compensation?

These are a few of the many topics that the chapters in this book discuss under the heading of corporate integrity and accountability.
 
The chapters are the product of leading business ethicists—both academic and practitioner—in the U.S. and Europe, resulting in the application of different methodologies, sources, and forms of argument. This gives the reader a sense not only of the complexity of some of the ethical issues business faces, but also the richness of the various resources that are available to address these issues.
 
Corporate Integrity and Accountability is ideally suited as a text for courses in the following: business ethics, corporate social responsibility, current ethical issues in business, and corporate citizenship.  

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780761929550, 9780761929543
eBook ISBN
9781452262253
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Ethics
Index
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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. CONTENTS
  3. 1 - THE NEED FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY
  4. 2 - WITTGENSTEIN’S BEDROCK: What Business Ethicists Do
  5. 3 - TYLENOL REVISITED: FRIEDMAN AND THE CURRENT CSR DEBATE
  6. 4 - THE PRACTICALITY OF PLURALISM
  7. 5 - INTEGRITY IN THE PRIVATE, THE PUBLIC, AND THE CORPORATE DOMAIN
  8. PART II: FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY
  9. 6 - WHY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND ABUSE OF INFORMATION ASYMMETRY ARE KEYS TO LACK OF INTEGRITY AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT
  10. 7 - AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE
  11. 8 - THE ETHICS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING, THE GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE, AND THE BALANCED CONCEPT OF THE FIRM
  12. 9 - WHAT IS A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY?A Path to Understanding Accountability
  13. 10 - SMALL FIRM ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY
  14. PART III: INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF GLOBAL BUSINESS
  15. 11 - THE U.S. BUSINESS SCANDALS: Perspectives on Ethics and Cultures at Home and Abroad
  16. 12 - IS CORRUPTION ALWAYS CORRUPT?
  17. 13 - LAW, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND GLOBALIZATION
  18. 14 - THE NEXT GENERATION OF CODES OF CONDUCT
  19. 15 - GLOBAL BUSINESS ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY: A Multi-Institutional Approach
  20. PART IV: FOSTERING CORPORATE INTEGRITY
  21. 17 - CEO COMPENSATION: Parameters, Paradigms, and Paradoxes
  22. 18 - RESPONSIBLE SHAREHOLDING AND INVESTOR ENGAGEMENT IN THE U.K.
  23. 19 - INSTILLING MORAL COMPETENCE IN A MULTINATIONAL: A Technical Issue
  24. NAME INDEX
  25. SUBJECT INDEX