Ethics, Governance and Risk Management: Lessons From Mirror Group Newspapers and Barings Bank

While corporate failures, such as Enron and WorldCom, have focused attention on issues of business ethics, corporate governance and risk management, there is nothing intrinsically new in the reasons behind their collapse. Neither is there anything fresh in the media's rush to identify a “scapeg...

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1. VerfasserIn: Drennan, Lynn T. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2004, Band: 52, Heft: 3, Seiten: 257-266
weitere Schlagwörter:B Corporate Governance
B Business Ethic
B Unethical Behaviour
B Risk Management
B Economic Growth
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Zusammenfassung:While corporate failures, such as Enron and WorldCom, have focused attention on issues of business ethics, corporate governance and risk management, there is nothing intrinsically new in the reasons behind their collapse. Neither is there anything fresh in the media's rush to identify a “scapegoat”. An examination of the financial collapse of Mirror Group Newspapers and Barings Bank, demonstrates failures within both these companies' corporate cultures and management systems, which allowed, if not encouraged, unethical behaviour by key individuals. It is argued that a combination of legislation, regulation, effective risk management and appropriate sanctions are needed, if such unethical behaviour, and resulting corporate failure, is to be prevented in future.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000037531.33621.2c