Enron
Essays

Business ethics usually start with personal ethics and with a set of core values that each individuals has and uses in his relationship with others and in his role in the community. This paper looks at these core values and extrapolates them in the business practice, looking at a concrete case, that of Enron, to prove the point.

Bounded ethicality is a psychological concept wherein a person is unable to fully understand the ethical consequences of their actions. The general idea is that there are times when a person is not capable of fully…

One of the most important aspects of government is trust. This is because the people rely on administrators to do the right thing and always take their well-being into consideration.

The SOX Act of 2002 completely changed how companies work with the SEC an federal government to report financial reporting and performance. The intent of this paper is to evaluate how three specific section so the Act impact the positive and negative aspects of financial performance of firms that have to comply. The role of governance, risk and compliance are also discussed.

Perhaps one of the most well-known organizational examples of the lack of use of ethical standards in management communications is readily supplied by Enron. Enron was certainly one of the most duplicitous companies at…

The concept of leadership is an extremely complex one. Chemers (1997) has defined leadership as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a…

The issue of business ethics has been front and center for over a decade, following on the heels of the accounting scandals that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That those scandals came in such rapid…

It is commonly argued that information technology and information systems is largely value neutral in the same way that other technologies do not necessarily have any ethical implications by themselves.

Ethics in business has become a hot button issue in recent years, in light of a number of scandals in the early 2000s, but also with the whole issue of corporate social responsibility.

Long-Term Investment Decisions Pricing Less Elastic A plan that managers in the low-calorie, frozen microwaveable food company could follow in anticipation of raising prices when selecting pricing strategies for making…