Enron Board's Finance Sub-Committee's approval of the first bankrupting Raptor transaction, Talon, is examined in as much detail as published documents allow. In so doing, this article examines a failure of corporate social responsibility. As not only members of the public were harmed, but also...

In making decisions about their compliance with the law, firms are constrained not only by their environment, but also their agents' understanding of whose (or what) interests the corporation should serve. In particular, compliance officials' understandings will frame and influence their...

Effective regulation requires knowledge. New forms of regulation, sometimes called “co-regulation,” propose promoting learning and continual improvement in the regulated. In particular, inducing experimentalism has been named as a regulator’s task.This Article argues that regulators also...

Leadership in Administration is a classic. For over half a century, it has been taught to business and sociology students. This foreword to the digital re-issue Quid Pro, LLC, stresses its relevance to political science and psychology students as well. For all, it stresses the links which Philip...

In the hierarchical corporation, a law firm obtained work from top executives. In a flattened corporation, work emerges from project teams. Empowered project teams change the practice of law. In an image, not the golf course, but the water cooler becomes where work is distributed. In many...

This article reports on the first major quantitative study of businesses that explores the use and influence of lawyers. Previous research has only surveyed or interviewed lawyers. Our findings are particularly robust in regards to lawyer behaviors because they do not derive from lawyer...