Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature concerning the negative effects of conflict among family businesses and to make practitioner focussed recommendations for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict. This paper discusses the prevalence of conflict in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider, from a practitioner’s perspective, two phrases that are often used in the family enterprise field; “best practice” and “trusted adviser”. They are sometimes found together, a trusted adviser being one who has a meaningful...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a concept of auditor as consigliere in family firms, that captures additional functions to monitoring, those of advice, mediating, and conveying. Design/methodology/approach The concept is tested through a survey conducted on 309 Swedish...

Discusses the different roles played by directors, shareholders and auditors in ensuring the success of a company. Outlines the responsibilities of the directors, pointing out the risks that directors may bully auditors; also that a persistently questioning director, especially a non‐executive...

Purpose – To demonstrate that Malaysia has taken serious measures to improve corporate governance landscape. Design/methodology/approach – Enforcement actions are used as a case study to show the effect of certain measures undertaken by the regulatory authorities to combat economic crime....

Purpose – The aim of the research is to explain the requirements for conducting a corporate investigation and to indicate that corporations must have effective corporate governance and compliance structures that are flexible and innovative to combat new and emerging frauds....

Purpose – Owing to the tremendously vast and unprecedented nature of the directly‐conferred statutory powers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) (under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) 2000), there is need for ample accountability on its part. The paper aims to discuss the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the qualitative shift from a “traditional way”, to understand the conditioning factors of corporate crime to a “principled” approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyzes the conditioning factors elaborated by the traditional...

Purpose – The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to assist in finding solutions for the growing moral and social issues of financial crime plaguing corporations today. Design/methodology/approach – Methodology includes the synthesis of existing theories in economic sociology and criminology...

Purpose – The financial sector is critical for the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime, corruption and terrorism. The purpose of this paper is to discuss principles of governance of the sector and the complexity of the activities targeted. Its aim focuses on the need for...