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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777571003321

Titolo

Restoring trust in American business [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jay W. Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz, and Andy Zelleke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, : MIT Press, c2005

ISBN

9780262279560

0-262-30790-1

0-262-27856-1

1-282-09720-2

9786612097201

1-4237-4685-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LorschJay William

BerlowitzLeslie

ZellekeAndy

Disciplina

658.4/08

Soggetti

Corporate governance - United States

Social responsibility of business - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction;  Part I - Managers: Beyond Regulation; Chapter 1 - The Inevitable Instability of American Corporate Governance; Chapter 2 - Values and Corporate Responsibility: A Personal Perspective; Chapter 3 - Management as a Profession; Part II - Reimagining Gatekeeper Identities; Chapter 4 - The Regulators and the Financial Scandals; Chapter 5 - The Professionalization of Corporate Directors; Comment - Should Directors Be Professionals?; Comment - Professionalization Does Not Mean Power or Accountability; Comment - The Limits of Corporate Law in Promoting Good Corporate Governance

Chapter 6 - The Auditor as Gatekeeper: A Perilous Expectations GapComment - The Audit and the Auditor's Central Role; Chapter 7 - Professional Independence and the Corporate Lawyer; Comment - The Dubious History and Psychology of Clubs as Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chapter 8 - The Financial Scandals and the Demise of



the Traditional Investment Banker; Comment - Toward A Higher Standard of Conduct in Investment Banking; Chapter 9 - Journalists and the Corporate Scandals: What Happened to the Watchdog?; Part III - Report of the American Academy's Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee

Corporate Responsibility Steering CommitteeReport of the American Academy's Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee; About the Co-Chairs; About the Authors