This article identifies an integrated teaching strategy that was originally developed for engineers, the so-called ‘micro-insertion’ approach, as a practical and effective means to teach ethics at business schools. It is argued that instructors can incorporate not only generic or thematic...

In the Chinese stock market, controlling shareholders often use inter-corporate loans to expropriate a great amount of cash from listed firms, through a process called “tunneling.” Using a sample of 10,170 firm-year observations from the Chinese stock market for the period of 2001–2010, I...

Over the recent years more and more often we can hear in public debate that pharmaceutical industry is using aggressive marketing to increase the market growth. Their marketing actions are addressed mainly to physicians, because doctors are those who raise gains of pharmaceutical companies in...

This article is about the integration issues of business ethics and professional conduct in relation to audit services rendered by auditors. Characterized in the selection of contemporary approaches to business ethics and professional ethics. The article poses the thesis that the integrative...

Ethics has been fundamental in organizations and in specific, Islamic financial institutions have selected ethics as their core competencies. Islam accepts ethics as a good value in enhancing company performance since ethics is grounded by Shariah rules. The ethical issues have been raised...

The integration of business and stakeholder values with performance measurement and management is explored. The state of the art of business performance is investigated and subsequently related to the stakeholder theory. Strengths and weaknesses of such a philosophy are analysed and discussed....

The business, as a profitable organization must become ethical in order to survive in a globalized world. It is true that in the last decades businesses have changed dramatically because of the remarkable changes from all fields of activity. However, the most important factors were some subtle...

The paper presents an analysis of the main ethical aspects concerning the Romanian real estate intermediation sector. The analysis tries to evaluate the true utility of real estate agents’ services and to assess the potential negative effects of an unethical behavior for the clients. In...

Business relations ethics is a procedure theoretically necessary and of a great social importance, which, starting from the analysis of “what this is”, points out the moral experience in a controversial domain of the human action, “what should this be”, as for the businesses to be...

The Sarbanes-Oxley law, officially named „Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” was adopted in 2002 in the United States in order to review the accounting practices and to rebuild community’s confidence in the Public Companies Financial Reports. What were the events...