Managers’ Moral Obligation of Fairness to (All) Shareholders: Does Information Asymmetry Benefit Privileged Investors at Other Shareholders’ Expense?
Drawing on ethical principles of fairness and integrative social contracts theory, moral obligations of fair dealing exist between the firm and all shareholders. This study investigates empirically whether privileged investors of publicly traded firms engage in legal, but morally questionable, tradi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2017
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 140, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-96 |
Further subjects: | B
Fiduciary Duty
B Information Asymmetry B Fair play B Earnings announcement B Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) B Moral Obligation |
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