Corporate Malfeasance

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at the scandals where large corporations' top management acted in an ethically and morally unsound manner, wanting more for themselves than the stakeholders that they actually worked for. The paper relates that unethical behavior of corporations results not only in a huge monetary loss but also in the loss of stakeholder trust and confidence as well as a negative effect on the stock market. The paper asserts that corporate malfeasance will be part of the corporate world in the years to come and so the answer is not in implementing more regulations, but rather ensuring that the laws and regulations already in place can prevent and detect, if not totally eradicate, corporate malfeasance in the future.

From the Paper:

"The late 1990s and the early 2000 rocked the corporate world with a variety of scandals reported in the news. The scandals were brought about by several large corporations' top management doing deeds that are not only fiscally questionable but ethically and morally unsound as well. "Deceptive and fraudulent activities carried out by corporate officers, investment banks, brokerage firms and investment analysts have cost investors billions. Trusted financial market professionals abandoned ethical principles (repeatedly, in both bull and bear markets, in the most materially advantaged country ever) as they pursued excessive material well being. (Creative Investment Research, 2003)" "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Creative Investment Research. (2003, January 27). Corporate malfeasance. [Online] Retrieved July 28, 2007 from the Website: http://www.creativeinvest.com/sri/corpmal.html.
• Global Policy Forum. (2007). Corporate crisis and corporate malfeasance. [Online] Retrieved July 28, 2007 from the Website: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/crisis/corporate/index.htm.
• Mizrach, Bruce & Weerts, Susan Zhang. (2006, May 1). Does the stock market punish corporate malfeasance? A case study of Citigroup. [Online] Retrieved July 28, 2007 from the Website: ftp://snde.rutgers.edu/Rutgers/wp/2006-01.pdf.

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