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Insider trading has received a bad name in recent decades. The popular press makes it sound like an evil practice where those who engage in it are totally devoid of ethical principles. Yet not all insider trading is illegal and some studies have concluded that certain kinds of insider trading...
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The merger mania of the 1980s put top corporate management on the defensive as predators sought takeover targets …. Hostile takeover activity has dissipated in recent years, for a variety of reasons, but the ethical issues surrounding …
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Insider trading in the United States has been receiving a lot of press coverage in recent years. The press has given the public the impression that insider trading is evil, unethical and illegal, when in fact such is not always the case. In some cases, insider trading is beneficial to the...
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Corporate governance issues are especially important in transition economies, since these countries do not have the long-established financial institution infrastructure to deal with corporate governance issues. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was...
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Corporate governance is a new and rapidly changing field in transition economies. Companies must have good corporate governance to attract foreign investment but many Russian firms have governance practices that leave much to be desired. Until a few years ago, transparency was practically...
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little has been written about the individuals who try to prevent an acquisition or a merger. Still less has been written … about the ethical issues involved in attempting to prevent an acquisition or merger. This article attempts to fill that gap … in the literature. The author looks at attempts to prevent consenting adults from entering into an acquisition or merger …
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Timeliness of financial reporting is an attribute of good corporate governance. Shareholders and other stakeholders need information while it is still fresh and the more time that passes between year-end and disclosure, the more stale the information becomes and the less value it has. Corporate...
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