Corporate Directors and Social Responsibility: Ethics versus Shareholder Value
This paper reports on the results of an experiment conducted with experienced corporate directors. The study findings indicate that directors employ prospective rationality cognition, and they sometimes make decisions that emphasize legal defensibility at the expense of personal ethics and social re...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 73, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-331 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Social Responsibility B board of director |
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| Summary: | This paper reports on the results of an experiment conducted with experienced corporate directors. The study findings indicate that directors employ prospective rationality cognition, and they sometimes make decisions that emphasize legal defensibility at the expense of personal ethics and social responsibility. Directors recognize the ethical and social implications of their decisions, but they believe that current corporate law requires them to pursue legal courses of action that maximize shareholder value. The results suggest that additional ethics education will have little influence on the decisions of many business leaders because their decisions are driven by corporate law, rather than personal ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9209-z |