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UNINA9910642615903321 |
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Autore |
Arbogast Stephen V. |
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Resisting corporate corruption : practical cases in business ethics from Enron through SPACs / / Stephen V. Arbogast |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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1-119-87166-2 |
1-119-87165-4 |
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[Fourth edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (622 pages) |
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Business ethics |
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction to the 4th Edition -- Note to Faculty: How to Use this Book -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 The Enron Cases -- Part 1 Demolishing Financial Control, Neutering the Gatekeepers -- Case 1 Enron Oil Trading: Untimely Problems in Valhalla -- Natural Gas Pipelines in Crisis -- Considering the Options -- The Meeting with Internal Audit -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 1 How to Do an Ethics Case Study -- The Solution Framework: Defining the Ethics Issue -- Tactical Planning and Alternative Business Plans -- Personal Considerations -- A Final Word About Financial Control -- Essay 2 How a Corporation Becomes Corrupt -- Case 2 Enter Mark-to-Market: Exit Accounting Integrity? -- Jeff Skilling's Association with Enron -- Steve Goddard Prepares to Meet Jeff Skilling -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 3 Necessary Ammunition: Economic Rationales for Financial Control -- Financial Control at the Heart of Business Success: Personal Experience -- Summarizing the Controls/Business Success Intangibles -- The Economic Consequences of Sound Financial Control -- Notes -- Part 2 Business Struggles, Accounting Manipulations -- Case 3 Enron's SPEs: A Vehicle too Far? -- Enron and Special Purpose Entity (SPE) Vehicles -- Chewco Investments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 4 Court Date Coming in California? -- California Decontrols Electricity -- |
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Enron's 'Star Wars' Gambits -- Political Fallout in California -- Enron Legal Investigates -- SR Produces a Legal Opinion -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Part 3 Resisting Corruption at Enron -- Case 5 New Counsel for Andy Fastow -- Determining a Course of Action -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 6 Lay Back … and Say What? -- Problems Deciding What to Say -- Skilling Decides to Call it Quits -- Assessing the Broader State of Enron. |
Focusing on the Task at Hand -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 7 Whistleblowing Before Imploding in Accounting Scandals -- Welcome Back -- Now Meet the Raptors -- Pondering an Approach to Ken Lay -- A Decision to Go Forward -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 4 Resisting Corporate Corruption: The Enron Legacy -- Tactical Lessons for Internal Resistance -- Tactical Lessons for Taking Ethics Issues Outside the Firm -- Implications for the Financial Crisis Cases -- Essay 5 Underappreciated Origins of the Financial Crisis - A Personal Memoir -- Jack Bennett Shakes Up Wall Street -- Wall Street Restructures, Consolidates, and Innovates -- Trading Dominates Banking and Client Relations Change -- Prelude to Financial Crisis -- Section 2 The Financial Crisis Cases -- Part 1 New Business Models Undermine Standards and Controls -- Case 1 Seeking a Sustainable Business Model at Goldman Sachs -- Banking vs. Trading at Goldman Sachs -- Competitive Pressures Change Wall Street's Business Models -- Embarrassment and Unprecedented Losses -- Hank Paulson Decides on a 'Counter to Corzine' -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 2 He's Madoff with the Money - Stop Him Now? -- Ponzi Schemes and Madoff -- Madoff Perfects the Ponzi Scheme -- More Red Flags than the Soviet Union -- Markopolos Goes to the SEC -- Where to Go after Meaghan Cheung's Cold Shoulder? -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 3 Should Countrywide Join the Subprime 'Race to the Bottom'? -- Nature and Structure of the U.S. Mortgage Business, 1940-85 -- Wall Street Develops Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) -- 'Subprime 1.0' Temporarily Sobers the Market -- Countrywide's Strategy in the 1990s -- AmeriQuest Launches a Subprime 'Race to the Bottom' -- Mozilo Reconsiders Countrywide's Subprime Strategy -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 4 Subprime Heading South at Bear Stearns Asset Management. |
Hedge Funds Develop on Wall Street -- Bear Stearns Forms its Own Hedge Funds -- Mortgage Market Trends and HGF Disclosure -- Financial Control Issues at HGF -- Cioffi and Tannin Respond to Growing Pressures -- February 2007: ELF Performance Turns Negative -- Matthew Tannin Considers His Response to Barclays Bank -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Part 2 Consequences for Gatekeepers and Firms -- Case 5 Ratings Integrity vs. Revenues at Moody's Investors Services -- RMBS/CDO Ratings: Kolchinsky Protests and is Transferred -- Moody's Becomes a NRSRO -- Moody's Culture Changes, and the Firm Goes Public -- Subprime Mortgage Debt: The Ratings Methodology Challenge -- The Subprime Market Begins to Unravel -- Summer 2008 - Moody's Prepares to Resume Ratings -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 6 Admission of Material Omission? Citigroup's SIVs and Subprime Exposure -- Citibank's Subprime Product Flow and its SIVs -- Citibank Structures and Launches Subprime SIVs -- Citibank's SIVs Finesse the VIE Rules -- Conditions Worsen in the Mortgage and RMBS/CDO Markets -- Citibank Reports Second Quarter Results -- Third Quarter Events Hammer Citi's Results -- Considering Citi's 3Q Results and IR's Proposed Pre-Announcement -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 7 Facing Reputational Risk on Goldman's ABACUS 2007-AC1 -- From Subprime RMBS to CDOs to SCDOs -- Goldman's Trading and its Clients, 2006-07 -- Fabrice Tourre Constructs ABACUS 2007- |
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AC1 -- Tourre Prepares for the MCC ABACUS Review -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 8 Time to Drop the Hammer on AIG's Controls? -- Innovation and Controls on Wall Street -- Management and Controls at AIG -- Greenberg Takes a Fall for AIG's 'Cooked Books' -- AIG-FP Confronts a Subprime Market Decline -- FP Faces Collateral Calls on Subprime CDS -- Ryan and PWC Approach a Decision -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Part 3 Financial Firms and Resisters. |
Case 9 Write to Rubin? - Pressure on Underwriting Standards at Citigroup -- National City Bank Becomes a Giant Financial Conglomerate -- Citi Demolishes Glass-Steagall -- Organizational Challenges at Citigroup -- Growth and Controls within Citigroup's Mortgage Operations -- Bowen Considers His Next Step - Write to Rubin? -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 10 Lehman Brothers Repo 105 -- Lehman Gets in Trouble -- Repo 105 to the Rescue -- Weighing Ethics, Career and Courses of Action -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 6 Wall Street and the Crisis - Causes, Contributions and Problems to Fix -- Section 3 The Post-Crisis Cases - Reforms, Resistance, Continuing Realities -- Part 1 The Dodd-Frank Act: A Primer -- Case 1 Back to the Future on Goldman Sachs Reputational Risk -- KMI Moves on El Paso -- El Paso Reacts and Goldman Faces its Conflicts -- The Business Standards Committee on Client Conflicts -- Blankfein Considers Goldman's Options to Manage its El Paso-KMI Conflicts -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 2 Take Customer Cash to Survive? Compliance and Chaos at MF Global -- Client Protections and Segregated Accounts -- MF Global Courts an Illiquidity Crisis -- Corzine 'Bets the House' on Euro Sovereign Debt -- The Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis Hits -- Markets Begin to Close in on MFGI -- MFGI's Final Week and a Decision on Segregated Accounts -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 3 Too Big to Know What's Going on at Banamex? -- Oceanografía Defrauds Banamex -- Managing the Global Financial Supermarket -- Corbat Confronts the Banamex Scandal in a Post-Financial Crisis World -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 4 Take CitiMortgage to the Feds? -- CitiMortgage Ignores FHA Procedures -- Citi Fails to Fix its FHA Noncompliance Issues -- Hunt Meets Her Attorney -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 5 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (A)?. |
VW Goes Diesel as a Sales and Climate Strategy -- Perceived Consequences of VW Admitting to Fraud -- Geldmacher Decides on Next Steps -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 6 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (B)? -- VW's Deception Begins to Unravel -- Geldmacher Watches VW's Deception Intensify -- Geldmacher Considers His Options -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 7 Fake it Till You Make it at TESLA? -- The SEC and its Enforcement Arsenal -- TESLA Takes on the Car Market, Faces 'Manufacturing Hell' -- Questionable Accounting by TESLA -- Substantive Basis for Musk's Latest Tweet -- Time for a Decision -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 8 Fake it Till You Make it with Patient Blood at Theranos? -- Elizabeth Holmes Wants to Change the World -- The Technology-or Not -- Funding Theranos -- Walgreens Pilot Crashes, Staff Question, and Theranos Looks to Shut Down Dissent -- Theranos Playbook for Disgruntled Employees -- Erika Cheung Considers Her Options -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 9 Fake it Till You Cash Out?' on Flexible Office Space at WeWork? -- WeWork Becomes a Unicorn -- WeWork 'Works' the Unicorn Funding Circuit -- IPO Market Conditions Worsen -- J.P. Morgan Faces WeWork's S-1 -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 10 What to Do About Faking it at Nikola? -- Nikola Promises a Trucking Revolution -- Potential Nikola/Milton Fraud -- Nikola Goes Public via a SPAC Merger -- Reports of Fraud Surface -- Chairman Clayton |
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Considers the SEC's Options -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 7 'And the Young Shall be Thrown Under the Bus' - Lessons in Resisting Unethical Conduct from Enron Through the Financial Crisis -- Essay 8 Resisting Corporate Corruption, 2022 -- A Note on Blogs and Law Firms -- A Note on Sources -- Index -- The Financial Crisis Cases -- The Post-Financial Crisis Cases -- EULA. |
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UNINA9910955462003321 |
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Autore |
Bouissac Paul |
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Titolo |
Circus as Multimodal Discourse : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 |
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1-283-70614-8 |
1-4411-0261-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Circus -- Social aspects |
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects |
Modality (Linguistics) |
Multimedia communications |
Performing arts -- Semiotics |
Semiotics |
Visual communication |
Circus - Social aspects |
Performing arts - Semiotics |
Discourse analysis - Social aspects |
Social Sciences |
Recreation & Sports |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The |
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spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring |
Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture |
The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild |
The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body |
Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index |
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This volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's fifteen chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It concludes w |
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