Scandals rocked the American economy in the early 21 st century leading to Congressional enactment of comprehensive corporate reform legislation known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). That legislation and subsequent regulations included significant deterrents in the form of punishments desi...
There have been several sports betting scandals that have damaged the integrity of sports events. These include point shaving (when players adjust their actions to influence the score), spot-fixing (a specific aspect of a game being fixed), and overall match-fixing (the entire result of an ev...
This multifaceted approach showcases Microsoft's innovative capability and enhances its resilience against market volatility. Investors have noted that this diversification strategy bolstered their confidence in the company's ability to navigate and thrive amid technological shifts. By balancing its past str...
Five 2015 Headlines That Had High Implications for Internal Auditing Posted onDecember 26, 2015byDavid Tate, Esq. In my mind, 2015 will be remembered primarily as the year of the corporate culture-induced scandals. Sourced through Scoop.it from:iaonline.theiia.org ...
If this is the new generation’s perception of reality, it means that 9)Japanese companies have little incentive to tackle ethical and compliance issues internallyCertainly, companies whose business performance has deteriorated as a result of scandals 10)have made greater efforts to deal with ethical...
Five of the women, and at least one of the men I interviewed, mentioned that they went out of their way to advocate for other women and take action on behalf of women in these roles. 21. All of the interviews that mentioned women also noted that they had additional challenges above thos...
(2015b) found evidence of an “eco-label effect,” which was expressed when consumers judged “organic” products as if they had better taste or were healthier. In the same vein, Sörqvist et al. (2013) found that “eco-friendly” coffee was rated to have better taste and consumers ...
BP’s Gulf disaster revealed a history of shaving the safety margins to maximise profit, a multitude of banks with their trading scandals which revealed a blatant disregard for the law and belief that self-enrichment trumped all things, the many multi-national companies that shuffle money to avoi...
Businesses also had to address the broader ethical concerns associated with the growth of technology, rejecting the concept of "an ideological and mythical vision of the net as a realm of unlimited freedom". He said that while the digital revolution had enormous advantages, "we rightly wonder ...
During the last 35 years, more than 170 empirical studies have been published that analyze the market return of firm investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) [1]. The good news is that many of these empirical CSR studies find a significant relationship between corporate social performanc...