Ethics, Governance and Corporate Crime ― Challenges and Consequences

Business and other scholars from New Zealand, Malaysia, the UK, and Nigeria present 11 essays on ethics, governance, and corporate crime. They discuss the definition of corporate crime, factors contributing to it, key scandals, corporate governance, and ethics; the relationship between financial capabilities, innovation approaches, and corporate financial performance to sustainability; the influence of family and non-family directors on firm performance; corporate social responsibility perception among small to medium-sized enterprises in developing countries; the ethics of tax compliance, tax evasion, and tax avoidance; the corporate ethical identity of Shari'ah Compliant companies to follow Islamic values in Malaysia; the role of auditing in the management of corporate fraud; and the economic implications of shareholder activism in family-controlled firms. Other chapters consider the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Hans Kelsen in terms of corporate social responsibility; modern myths of the hero in the context of managerial behavior; and game theory, business behavior, and ethics. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)