Business Efficiency and Ethics [electronic resource] : Values and Strategic Decision Making /
Chorafas, D.author.
Business Efficiency and Ethics presents both the theory of business efficiency and ethics, and a wealth of case studies based on practical experience. This unique perspective offers a framework for identifying this behaviour and reestablishing appropriate business behavior standards.
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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
7.  Barings' Acquisition by ING
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Business Efficiency and Ethics presents both the theory of business efficiency and ethics, and a wealth of case studies based on practical experience. This unique perspective offers a framework for identifying this behaviour and reestablishing appropriate business behavior standards.
Corporate governance.
Economics.
Management science.
Business ethics.
Economic policy.
Economic history.
International business enterprises.
Corporate Governance.
Economics, general.
Business Ethics.
Economic Policy.
Economic History.
International Business.