Business efficiency and ethics : values and strategic decision making /: values and strategic decision making. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dimitris N. Chorafas.
• Authors: Chorafas, Dimitris N
• Other Names: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Ethical Values, Efficiency, and Effectiveness; 1. Areté: Virtue Is the Foundation of Ethics; 2. Character Is the Main Asset of Trustworthy People; 3. Efficiency and Effectiveness; 4. Barclays Stars Scam; 5. "Say-on-Pay"; 6. Obama's "Fat-Cat Bankers" and Clawbacks; 2 Senior Managers Are in the Frontline of Efficiency and Ethics; 1. The Accountability of Senior Managers; 2. Personality Traits Characteristic of Sound Management; 3. High-Quality People; 4. Poor Governance; 5. The Tools of CEO Malpractices. 6. Spoilage: False Efforts in Cost Control and in Productivity7. Virtue over Pay; 8. Firing an Inefficient CEO; 3 Social Ethics and Rising Corruption; 1. Social Ethics; 2. La Forza del Destino; 3. Rising Corruption; 4. Scams in the Boardroom; 5. A Stew of Sorrows and Deceits; 6. The Greatest Scam of Them All: Turning a Blind Eye to Unintended Consequences; 4 Ethics and Efficiency in Public Administration; 1. Lack of Ethics and Inefficiency in Absurdistan; 2. From Absurdistan with Love: The Unaffordable Care Act; 3. NATO's Absurdistan: A Fake Mullah Omar Feasted in Kabul. 4. The North-South Divide Has Become a Global Hallmark5. Bubbles Are the Ticket to Economic Disaster; 5 Be Ready for the "Unthinkable"; 1. Thinking of the Unthinkable and Its Aftereffect; 2. Debt Forgiveness in the Ancient World; 3. The West's Crisis in Finance, Banking, and Business Confidence; 4. Competences and Incompetences of the Welfare State; 5. Beware of Public Pronouncements about Controlling Deficits, Paying Entitlements, and Saving the Banks; 6. Can the European Central Bank Battle the Deflation Dragon?; 7. Thinking of the Unthinkable before Adversity Hits. 6 Ethics and Efficiency in the Financial Industry1. Ivar Kreuger and the Industrialization of Leverage; 2. What the Public Should Know about Banking and Bankers; 3. Demonology and Highly Risky "Assets"; 4. Wachovia Falls on Its Sword; 5. Investor Activism and Creative Accounting; 6. From Model Risk to Insider Trading; 7 Libor Scandal, Derivatives, Gold Deceits, and the ETFs; 1. The London Interbank Offered Rate; 2. Were Regulators Part of the Deception?; 3. In Search of Ethics and Efficiency; 4. Risk Appetite, Derivatives, and Bank-to-Bank Exposure; 5. Bre-X and Other Gold Scams. 6. Exchange-Traded Funds8 The Strategy of Financial Gambling; 1. MF Global; 2. The Dexia Group; 3. Risks Associated with Securitized Portfolios; 4. Standard Chartered and the Iranian Deal; 5. The Prudential Securities Scandal; 6. A Class Action on Securities Lending; 9 Barings: The Crashing of a Venerable Bank; 1. Early History; 2. Elixir to Permanent "Risk-Free" Profits; 3. The Responsibilities of Barings and of Regulatory Supervision; 4. Star Traders and Risky Dealing; 5. Account 88888, Double Books, and Trojan Horses; 6. Barings Singapore and SIMEX.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 294 pages)
• Subjects: 174/.4; Business; Business ethics; Organizational effectiveness; Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Business ethics; Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Organizational effectiveness; Business & Economics -- General; Business & Economics -- Business Ethics; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy; Business & Economics -- Economic History; Business & Economics -- International -- Economics; Economics; Business ethics & social responsibility; Political economy; Economic history; Business & management; Management science; Corporate governance; Economics; Economic policy; Economic history; International business enterpris; Business & Economics -- Corporate Governance; Corporate governance; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137484253; 9781137484246; 1137484241
• Related ISBNs: 113748425X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.