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A construction of auditor independence in the Czech Republic: local insights

Sucher, Pat; Kosmala‐MacLullich, Katarzyna - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17 (2004) 2, pp. 276-305

professional Codes of Ethics in much of the western world. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the auditor independence construct has …

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The negative effect of an accounting standard on employee welfare : The case of McDonnell Douglas Corporation and FASB 106

Baker, C. Richard; Stephan Hayes, Rick - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 8 (1995) 3, pp. 12-33

Investigates the negative effect on employee welfare caused by economic decisions taken by corporate managements which they attribute to the adoption of an accounting standard, focusing on the case of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which ended health‐care benefits for on‐union employees as a...

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Corporate Governance and the Sons of Cadbury

Vinten, Gerald - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 1 (2001) 4, pp. 4-8

discussing the US Treadway and COSO Reports. Concerns with business ethics also are a factor. These reports in turn influenced …

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Enron, board governance and moral failings

Zandstra, Gerald - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 2 (2002) 2, pp. 16-19

The failure of the Enron Corporation has brought attention to the roles played by the chief executive officer and other executives of the modern corporation. Its failure has also produced discussion of further regulations that will, it is hoped, prevent another collapse similar to that of Enron....

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Viewpoint Global responsibility – vision from Central Asia/vision of Central Asia

Altaliyeva, Akmaral - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 3 (2003) 3, pp. 90-94

Focuses on global responsibility (GR) in Kazakhstan. Asserts, from analysis of the literature and interviews with students from the Executive MBA Program of one of the leading national business schools, that the subject of GR is not popular among Kazakhstani writers, nor well developed. Notes...

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The Vioxx recall case and comments

Tong, Carl H.; Tong, Lee‐Ing; Tong, James E. - In: Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 19 (2009) 2, pp. 114-118

disaster can occur when a company becomes greedy and seeks undeserved profits at the expense of ethics and social …

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Ethical performance evaluation: an extension and illustration

Graham Saunders, Stephen - In: European Business Review 23 (2011) 6, pp. 561-571

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate over time the ethical performance of a multinational foods company – Nestlé – operating in a highly dynamic, complex, and often ambiguous environment in a crisis torn Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach – The case study applies an...

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The whistleblowers’ charter

Vinten, Gerald - In: Executive Development 8 (1995) 2, pp. 25-28

Whistleblowing – the unauthorized disclosure of illegal or unethical conduct within an organization – has an ancient lineage, although the first known use of the term rather than the concept was in 1963. Far from being subversion, it is a vital, almost indispensable control device. This is...

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Ethical issues of global marketing: avoiding bad faith in visual representation

Borgerson, Janet L.; Schroeder, Jonathan E. - In: European Journal of Marketing 36 (2002) 5/6, pp. 570-594

that draws on ethics, visual studies and critical race theory. An ontological approach is offered as an alternative to … complex issues of representational ethics in marketing by applying a semiotically‐based analysis that places ontological … additional insight into societal marketing and places global marketing processes within the intersection of ethics, aesthetics …

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The ethical call center where people clamor to work : Bid to become beacon of high morale and low staff turnover

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 14 (2006) 5, pp. 34-37

Purpose – Reports on the establishment of an ethical call centre in Bradford, UK, which aims to challenge the industry's “sweat‐shop” image and reputation for poor customer service and HR management. Design – Draws on the information provided in an interview with Alison Widdup, who...

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