The Ancients against the Moderns: Focusing on the Character of Corporate Leaders
When a series of corporate scandals erupted soon after the collapse of the 1990s bull market in equities, policy makers and reformers chiefly responded by augmenting and refining the checks and balances surrounding publicly traded corporations. Through measures such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2008
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 78, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-387 |
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Leadership
B Modern Philosophy B Corporate governance B Ancient Philosophy B Enron B Benjamin Franklin B WorldCom securities regulation B Virtues |
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