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Reader's Guide Reader’s Guide Accounting Life Settlements Manipulation, Financial Accounting, Ethics of Mark-to-Market Accounting Adelphia Communications Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers American Institute of Certified Public Metallgesellschaft AG Accountants (AICPA) Money Laundering Arthur Andersen, LLP Net Present Value Auditing Option Backdating Bankers Trust Ponzi Scheme Barings Bank Privacy Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) Professional Ethics Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO) Profits Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Consulting Regressive Tax Consumption Taxes Regulation and Regulatory Agencies Contingent Valuation Sarbanes-Oxley Act Corporate Inversion Savings and Loan Scandal Cross-Subsidization Social Audits Deceptive Practices Soft Money Disclosure Tax Avoidance and Evasion Double Taxation Tax Ethics Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) Tax Havens Enron Corporation Tax Incentives Executive Compensation Tax Incidence Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Tax Reform Act Fiduciary Duty Transaction Costs Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Transfer Pricing Financial Derivatives Transparency Financial Services Industry Transparency, Market Flat Tax Triple Bottom Line Global Business Citizenship Tyco International Global Crossing Value-Added Tax (VAT) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Vatican Bank Green Revolution WorldCom Green Values Hedge Funds In-Kind Contributions Internal Audit Biographies Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Arendt, Hannah International Tax Competitiveness Index Aristotle Leveraged Buyouts Arrow, Kenneth xxiii COPYRIGHT 2018 SAGE Publications, Inc xxiv Reader’s Guide Bentham, Jeremy Business, Purpose of Boesky, Ivan Campaign Finance Laws Buchanan, James McGill, Jr. Cartels Carnegie, Andrew Casino Capitalism Coase, Ronald H. Censorship Confucius Child Labor Engels, Friedrich Children, Marketing to Ferguson, Adam Codes of Conduct, Ethical and Professional Friedman, Milton Collectivism Galbraith, John Kenneth Commerce and the Arts George, Henry Competition Grasso, Richard Confidentiality Agreements Habermas, Jürgen Conflict Zones, Operating Businesses in Hayek, Friedrich A. Corporate Citizenship Hobbes, Thomas Corporate Governance Hume, David Corporate Moral Agency Kant, Immanuel Corporate Philanthropy Keynes, J. M. Corporate Political Advocacy Kierkegaard, Søren Corporate Social Financial Performance Kohlberg, Lawrence Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Locke, John Corporate Social Performance (CSP) MacIntyre, Alasdair Corporate Social Responsiveness Mandeville, Bernard Corporatism Marx, Karl Cost–Benefit Analysis Milken, Michael Robert Cowboy Capitalism Mill, John Stuart Crisis Management Mises, Ludwig von Crony Capitalism Nietzsche, Friedrich Deceptive Advertising North, Douglass Deceptive Practices Nozick, Robert Developing Countries, Business Ethics in Pareto, Vilfredo Disability Discrimination Rand, Ayn Diversity in the Workplace Rawls, John Divestment Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Downsizing Schumpeter, Joseph Drone Technology Sen, Amartya Employee Assistance Programs Sidgwick, Henry Employee Monitoring and Surveillance Silkwood, Karen Employee Relations Smith, Adam Employee Rights Movement Spencer, Herbert Employment Contracts Stewart, Martha Employment Discrimination Tawney, Richard Henry Empowerment Veblen, Thorstein Entrepreneurship Weber, Max Entrepreneurship, Ethics of Equal Employment Opportunity Ethical Role of the Manager Commerce and the Social Sphere Executive Compensation Anchor Institutions Family-Friendly Corporation Bait-and-Switch Practices Fiduciary Duty Benefits, Employee Free Speech in the Workplace COPYRIGHT 2018 SAGE Publications, Inc Reader’s Guide xxv Genetic Information in the Workplace Small Business Ethics Glass Ceiling Social Accountability (SA) Global Business Citizenship Social Activists Global Codes of Conduct Social Audits Greenwashing Social Determinants Hostile Work Environment Social Entrepreneurship Housing Intervention Stakeholder Dialogue Incentives, Perverse Stakeholder Network Incipiency Doctrine Stakeholder Symbiosis Insider Trading Stakeholder Theory Integrative Economic Ethics Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Integrity Capital Strategic Philanthropy International Business Ethics Stress, Job-Related Islamic Finance Sweatshops Job Security Teleopathy KLD Social Rankings Too Big to Fail Leadership Transparency, Market Liability Theory Triple Bottom Line Living Wage Trusts Local Government Financing Vehicle (LGFV) Unconscionability of Contracts Luddites and Ludditism Values, Cultural Meaningful Work Venture Capital Minimum Wage Vice Organizational Culture and Context Violence in the Workplace Organizational Moral Distress Warranties Outsourcing Wealth Creation Paternalism Women in the Workplace Pensions Working Conditions Pollution Work-Life Balance Power, Business Workplace Privacy Predatory Pricing and Trading Pretexting Corporate Powers, Organization, and Price Discrimination Governance Price-Fixing Pricing, Ethical Issues in Agency, Theory of Private Military Company Antitrust Laws Product Liability Bankruptcy, Ethical Issues in Professional Ethics Benefit Corporation (B Corporation) Profit Maximization, Corporate Social Berle-Dodd Debate Responsibility as Business, Purpose of Profits Business Judgment Rule Public Relations Business Law Recalls, Voluntary Capitalism Recycling Cartels Reputation Management Chaebol Restraint of Trade Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO) Risk Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Risk Management Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Scandals, Corporate Chief Operating Officer (COO) Self-Regulation Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) COPYRIGHT 2018 SAGE Publications, Inc xxvi Reader’s Guide Chief Risk Officer (CRO) LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) Closely Held Corporation Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFV) Codes of Conduct, Ethical and Professional Low-Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C) Confidentiality Agreements Managed Competition Cooperatives Market Failure Corporate Accountability Market for Corporate Control Corporate Democracy Act Market Socialism Corporate Ethics and Compliance Programs Mentoring Corporate Governance Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers Corporate Rights and Personhood Minority Shareholders Corporation, Origins and Nature Mission and Mission Statements Deferred Compensation Plans Mixed Economy Directors, Classified Boards of Monopolies, Duopolies, and Oligopolies Directors, Corporate Monopsony Downsizing Multinational Corporations (MNCs) Due Diligence Nationalization Economic Growth Nonprofit Organizations Economic Incentives Ombudsperson Employee Monitoring and Surveillance Open-Book Management Employee Relations Ownership and Control Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) Participatory Management Employment Discrimination Power, Business Enterprise Risk Management Privatization Entrepreneurship Profits Ethical Role of the Manager Property and Property Rights Executive Compensation Resource Allocation Family Office Self-Regulation Family-Run Enterprise Servant Leadership Firm, Theory of the Shareholder Activism Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Shareholder Model of Corporate Governance Free Market Shareholder Primacy Free Trade, Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade Shareholder Resolutions Zones Shareholder Wealth Maximization Freedom of Contract Shareholders Freelance Services Economy Silk Road, New Glass Ceiling Social Determinants Golden Parachutes Social Enterprise, Structure of Herfindahl Index Sole Proprietorship Incentive Compatibility Spontaneous Order Incipiency Doctrine Stakeholder Dialogue Industrial Policy Stakeholder Economy Integrative Economic Ethics Stakeholder Engagement Integrity Capital Stakeholder Network Internal Audit Stakeholder Responsibility Keiretsu Stakeholder Symbiosis KLD Social Rankings Stakeholder Theory Laissez-Faire Statism Leadership Subsidiarity Leveraged Buyouts Trusts LLC (Limited Liability Company) Virtual Corporation COPYRIGHT 2018 SAGE Publications, Inc Reader’s Guide xxvii Virtue and Leadership Fairness Wealth Ford Pinto Wealth Creation Fraud Whistle-Blowing Free Market Freedom of Contract Freelance Services Economy Customers and Consumers Gay Rights Advertising Ethics Gender Inequality and Discrimination Americans with Disabilities Act Global Well-Being Index Antitrust Laws Honesty Bait-and-Switch Practices Hotlines and Helplines Better Business Bureau Identity Theft Black Market Implied Warranties Bluffing and Deception in Negotiations Information Technology and Privacy Boycotts Informed Consent Cartels Johns-Manville Churning Just Price Coercion Legal Rights Commodification Lemon Laws Competition Madoff Scandal Confidentiality Market Bubbles Conspicuous Consumption Market for Lemons Consumer Activism Merck & Co. Consumer Fraud Minorities Consumer Goods Mobile Security Consumer Preferences Monopolies, Duopolies, and Oligopolies Consumer Product Safety Commission National Origin Discrimination Consumer Protection Legislation Negotiation and Bargaining Consumer Rights Network Security Consumer Sovereignty Paternalism Consumerism Patients’ Bill of Rights Consumer’s Bill of Rights Personalization Consumption Taxes Phishing Contracts Ponzi Scheme Cybersecurity Predatory Pricing and Trading Dalkon Shield Preferential Treatment Data Breaches, Corporate Price Discrimination Deceptive Advertising Price-Fixing Deceptive Practices Pricing, Ethical Issues in Disability Discrimination Privacy Disclosure Product Liability Electronic Commerce Promises Ethics and the Tobacco Industry Prudent Investor Rule Ethics
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