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Ethics must be communicated from the top down!

Wells, Barron; Spinks, Nelda - In: Career Development International 1 (1996) 7, pp. 28-30

organizations develop social responsibility programmes and codes of ethics. Such programmes and codes let employees in the … are considered ethical and unethical. The code of ethics, as well as upper‐level management’s support of the code, must be …

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Walking the tightrope

Brigley, Stephen - In: Executive Development 8 (1995) 5, pp. 32-35

ethics and those within their own organization. Concludes that a majority see their work in a professional ethical light and … decisions appear an illusion. Recommends that ethics should be openly discussed and that organizations raise the level of …

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The Mad Hatter’s corporate tea party

Leung, Philomena; Cooper, Barry J. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 18 (2003) 6/7, pp. 505-516

This paper aims to provide an insight into the corporate greed and consequent corporate collapses of companies such as HIH, One.Tel and Harris Scarfe in Australia, while concurrently, Enron, WorldCom and other companies were attracting the attention of the accounting profession, the regulators...

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The impact of codes of ethics and experience on auditor judgments

Pflugrath, Gary; Martinov‐Bennie, Nonna; Chen, Liang - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 22 (2007) 6, pp. 566-589

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the presence of a code of ethics on the quality of … a code of ethics (operationalised as the presence vs absence of an organisational code of conduct) on the quality of …. Findings – The results of this study indicate that the presence of a code of ethics has a positive impact on the quality of the …

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Viewpoint: code of ethics or no code of ethics ‐ a university experience

Doost, Roger K. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 12 (1997) 1, pp. 31-34

Focuses on Clemson University’s failed attempt to introduce a code of ethics. Looks at the flaws in the State’s Code of … Ethics, and considers the limitations of such a code and the alienation which it can cause. Concludes that, rather than … developing a new set of codes, greater emphasis should be placed on cultivating ethics awareness. …

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Corporate sin in a material world

In: Strategic Direction 20 (2004) 3, pp. 29-31

Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, although we tend to call it greed these days. And in boardrooms of the business world some people tend to confuse greed with their view of what they deserve in terms of unrealistic salaries, unjustified bonuses, perks, creative accounting, golden...

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Two Authority Structures in the Economy

Gunn, Bruce - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 7, pp. 33-45

age. The new construct, that operates in a framework of Judaeo‐Christian ethics, must replace the political system. This … latter mechanism is the original authority structure which has traditionally been bounded by situation ethics. Supplanting …

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Collision of lions and butterflies or mutual neglect - outside the Anglo-American domain, too? The publication and citation behaviour of economic geographers and geographical econo...

Sternberg, Rolf - 2013

This paper compares the publication and citation behaviour of economic geogra- phers and geographical economists. Based on a unique data set and consciously limited to researchers in the German-speaking world, empirical analyses show more parallels than expected. Convergence of scholars from...

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Partisanship, Ideology, and Representation in Latin America

Saiegh, Sebastián M. - 2014

This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the "median" voter in Latin America...

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Coping with People’s Inflation Perceptions During a Currency Changeover

Eife, Thomas A.; Coombs, W. Timothy - 2006

The gap between actual and perceived inflation is one of the more unexpected consequences of the euro changeover in January 2002. In this note we argue that this gap was caused by a lack of preparation and experience of the authorities to appropriately communicate with the public during the...

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