Most companies set standards and procedures to meet stakeholder expectations. What distinguishes a company ethically responsible by other companies is that shareholders and managers develop standards of business ethics, procedures and reasonable expectations to improve performance, profits to...

The paper aims at emphasizing the importance of business ethics in long term competitive advantage. Ethics is the basis for human relationships. It is reflected in the quality of our relationships and all members of our society must understand the importance of ethics as it is the basis of a...

Before starting the design and implementation of a business ethics program, shareholders and managers need to decide what are trying to achieve, through their business ethics program. An effective program should provide specific measures, action-oriented, relevant and applicable. Also essential...

This study concentrates on the ethical issues and conditions prevailing in the Turkish banking environment. A selfadministered mail survey was conducted with 554 top bank managers in Turkey. Scenarios that were developed after a pilot study were factor analyzed. The objective of the study was to...

Ethics can be defined as a process of evaluating actions according to moral principal of values. Throughout the centuries people were trying to choose between profit and moral. Perhaps, some of them obtain both, but every time it could have roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness,...

I formulate a model to emphasize the fraud detection role of auditors in the financial market, providing a theoretical framework to examine the likelihood of and market reaction to a financial reporting and audit delay. The model has an auditor considering whether to perform extended audit...

This paper discusses the ethical void in Capitalism which does not look prominent in welfare societies and states. But, its effects become more eminent in tough economic conditions and more so in developed regions where economic relationships by themselves will not result in win-win situation...

This paper measures the effect of different socioeconomic determinants on countries’ transparency efficiency. Specifically, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the transparency efficiency of twenty nine countries is calculated. Then with the help of factor analysis we extract two factors...