Essays Tagged: "corporate scandals"
Organizational Change: Article Review - MGT 331: Organizational Behavior. (A brief review of 3 related articles, see references for article links)
ronment that is struggling to recuperate after the stock market bubble burst, 9/11, Enron and other corporate scandals, change has become the keyword for survivability in a volatile market. CEO's and ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
a short essay on why the lottery should remain legal as a response to Michael Sandel's essay, "Bad Bet"
Of all the issues facing America today such as September 11, racism, corporate scandals, state lotteries are most definitely not one of the problems America must deal wi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis - Identifies the hypotheses used to validate a business research study.
decision makers for key decisions. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1992) challenge this corporate maxim. They argue that the best decision maker is the person with the best incentives to m ... rganization with outside investors, management and shareholders are separate. As illustrated by the corporate scandals in the past five years or the failed merger of AOL and Time Warner, this separati ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Good news is in the eye of the beholder
sound to some sort of profit, but things today are hardly set in stone. the most fear came from the corporate scandals that took place earlier this year. investors can no longer be as naive anymore as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Research paper on Auditors' Legal Liabilities in Australia and China
iety, auditors in both developed and developing countries have played a vital role in enhancing the corporate governance of the companies and establishing the confidence of users of companies' financi ... users of companies' financial reports, especially investors . However, in recent years, while many corporate scandals and collapses, that were associated with auditors' fraud and negligence, have bee ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Ethics in Business
After a two-year string of corporate scandals, the term "business ethics" has become reliable fodder for late-night talk-show h ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Analyzing Trends in Organizational Behavior
y kind of social contract, base morals, or ethics to govern the population.In this day in age, with corporate scandals like Enron, and Tyco and others it is critical for corporations to hold true to s ... head in a competitive environment. In this day and age technology plays such a critical role in the corporate world that some of the functions that were once performed by humans are now being done by ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Ethical Dilema and Moral Values
Executive SummaryThe corporate scandals of the past few years are compelling evidence that too many managers have failed ... ave touched the apex of success only to sink back to the oblivion of unethical and shallow conduct. Corporates over the last century have just concentrated on the 'Bottom Line' and in it's pursuit the ... tic tool to achieve the ends of financial prosperity. Another factor that has been prevalent in the corporate jungle is the notion that everyone is 'expendable' as long as the balance sheet looks heal ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Organizational Behavior Trends
decision making and 2) the significance of technology as it relates to stress at work.With all the corporate scandals reported in the news and rumors of self serving, greedy CEO's running amuck, the ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis
decision makers for key decisions. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1992) challenge this corporate maxim. They argue that the best decision maker is the person with the best incentives to m ... rganization with outside investors, management and shareholders are separate. As illustrated by the corporate scandals in the past five years or the failed merger of AOL and Time Warner, this separati ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
One share one vote
ve themselves next to the standard of 'one share, one vote.' business reformers who want to put off corporate scandals have not embark upon this dilemma, in spite of the fact that parity is the most b ... ins-and-outs of good quality governance. As a substitute, companies that fall short to obey with a corporate principle have to clarify why they are doing so, and depiction themselves to likely penalt ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union
Accounting Scandals in the early 2000s
ing scandals at that time?The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was created in response to the large corporate scandals, including Enron. SOX was engineered to set rules for compliance. The stringent n ... gent new rules were put in place "to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes" (SOX, 2002). The ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Team Leadership
The arrival of the new millennium brought with it a tsunami of corporate scandals. Just as the publicity from one wave of discredited companies (Enron, WorldCom, T ... g in ethical leadership greatly reduces the risk of falling victim to the same types of large-scale corporate scandals that marked the arrival of the new millennium. These scandals demonstrate that th ... ow It Happens, Why It Matters', Harvard Business School Press, vol. 34Kottler, P & Lee, N 2005, Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause, Wiley, New Yor ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication
SOX
aper provides an in-depth evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which promoted to produce change in the corporate environment, in general, by stressing issues of public accountability and disclosure in th ... xchange Commission's concern in promoting ethical standards in terms of financial disclosure in the corporate environment.Corporate greed and corruption has altered the face of American business forev ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
McBride Financial Services Governance Evaluation
EvaluationUniversity of Phoenix�McBride Financial Services Governance EvaluationSince 1980, corporate governance has seen a radical transformation. Before this time, public corporations were s ... shareholders. Disappointed shareholders had little recourse and management controlled the seats of corporate boards. Ownership of stock and options was minor with "only 20% of the compensation of U.S ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
A Survey on Compliance of Corporate Governance
Corporate governance has evolved into an important institute within recent years because of the high ... ptional interests in the field in question have risen (Ahmed 2008 p23).Mathiesen (2002) states that corporate governance explores how to safeguard and motivate effectual administration of corporations ... ontracts, designs of organization and legislation, to make an improvement in financial performance. Corporate scandals and failures as well as broader economic concerns have driven OECD countries to d ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Insurance Industry. Article Analysis about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
signed into legislation in 2002 and made major changes in the regulation of financial practice and corporate governance. This paper will analyze a specific article while explaining how the Sarbanes-O ... fects the insurance industry.The SOX ActThe Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX Act) is also referred to as The Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act of 2002. The SOX Act reg ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Tyco Failure
2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals such as Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, Halliburton, AOL Time Warner and a list of ... alliburton, AOL Time Warner and a list of others. In many ways, Tyco is just another case of failed corporate governance, accounting abuses, and outright greed.Tyco was founded in 1960 by Arthur J. Ro ... g Ph.D. and was supported through U.S. government research contracts. In 1962, the laboratory was incorporated and changed the direction of the corporation to commercial applications. In 1964, Tyco we ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Sarbox effect on accounting litigation
The corporate scandals of 2001 and 2002 have been referred to as the "perfect storm". (Green, 2004) One ... d accounting firms. The Act contains 11 titles from "Public Company Accounting Oversight Board" to "Corporate Fraud Accountability. (Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002)Some of the important changes incorporated ... ms have the international scope and breadth of resources to provide the services that multinational corporate taxpayers demand. (How Sarbanes Oxley is changing tax service, 2005). The reaction from ov ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Business Failure
2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals. In many ways, Tyco is just another case of a failed corporate watch dogging that ... TYCO which got its start through U.S. government research contracts. In 1962, the laboratory was incorporated and changed the direction of the corporation to commercial applications. In 1964, Tyco we ... companies. The additional need for enforcing ethical compliance standards is demonstrated by large corporate failures even with policies in place. Enron was a company that had established a code of e ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication