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The Shareholder Primacy Norm, D. Gordon Smith

Faculty Scholarship

Corporate directors have a fiduciary duty to make decisions in the best interests of the shareholders. This aspect of fiduciary duty is often called the shareholder primacy norm. Legal scholars generally assume that the shareholder primacy norm is a major factor considered by boards of directors of publicly traded corporations in making ordinary business decisions and that changing the shareholder primacy norm would have an effect on the substance of those decisions. This Article challenges this view and argues that the shareholder primacy norm was never equipped to mediate conflicts between shareholders and nonshareholder constituencies of a corporation. The origins …

Values And Ethics For Organizations : Theory And Practice: By S K Chakraborty, Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998, S Ambirajan

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Tom Anderson Appointed as Ethics Fellow
• Director's Corner: Off base / On Base, by Robert P. Lawry
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Morally Permissible?
• In Memorium: Marliln Samuels, 1996 Fellow
• News and Notes

Venture Capital Contracting In The Information Age, D. Gordon Smith

Faculty Scholarship

Most venture capitalists provide services to their portfolio companies beyond capital investment. Although these services form an important part of the bargain between the venture capitalists and the entrepreneur, they are rarely specified or even capable of specification in venture capital contracts. This article examines the moral hazard and adverse selection problems facing entrepreneurs who hire venture capitalists to provide value-added services and describes the role of the market for venture capitalist reputation in addressing those problems. Further, the Article speculates about whether advances in information technology - specifically, the World Wide Web - are likely to improve the efficiency …

Intellectual Property Rights: Canada And India, Bernard M Wolf

IIMB Management Review

Liberalisation has seen many economies, especially in Asia, opening their hitherto sheltered domestic markets to global competition and providing greater opportunities to trade and foreign investment. The spinoffs of liberalisation bring in new implications, opportunities and challenges for the governments as well as the organisations involved. Round Table features some of the issues discussed in the conference on 'Managing Economic Liberalisation in South Asia : Directions for the 21st Century' held in Chennai, India, from August 10 -13. Selvarajah examines the realignment of economies towards globalisation as a development of regionalism. The shift in economic forces away from multilateral arrangements …

Affirmative Action: Diverse Goals, Diverse Policies, Eric Wampler

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

The Forgotten Factor: The Economic Principles Of Affirmative Action, Patrick Kinuthia

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Affirming The Affirmative Action Intention, Barbra Jotzke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Introduction, Joseph Ellin

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Affirmative Action: A Vision For Today, Wmu Center For The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the W.esley Foundation.

Affirmative Action: A Contradiction Of Theory And Practice, Kimberly Hellmers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

University Policy, Affirmative Action, And The Principles Of Justice, Eric Wampler

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Summer 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Striving To Be Good by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice: We Welcome Suggestions
• Groups as Gatekeepers to Genetic Research
• Searching for Foundations: Feminist and Postmodern Approaches to Philosophy
• News & Notes
• Doing Ethics
• Ethics Case: Professionalism

Causation In Occupational Disease: Balancing Epidemiology, Law And Manufacturer Conduct, Richard M. Lynch, Mary S. Henifin

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Drs. Lynch & Henefin examine evolution of disease causation theory and its impact on public health, as well as how these relate to the courtroom admissibility of expert opinion evidence.

Political Correctness Revisited, Jan Narveson

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented February 19th , 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society

Qualitative Materiality In Government Audit Planning, Sridhar Ramamoorti, Andrea Lee Hoey

Accounting Faculty Publications

The political sensitivity of the area under audit to adverse media exposure and litigation concerns the nature rather than the size of an amount, such as illegal acts, bribery and corruption, related party transactions, snowballing patterns of error and other risks that grow over time. Qualitative materiality considerations should not be ignored-they can and frequently do influence the nature and scope of governmental audits. Financial Accounting Standards Board Concepts Statement No. 2 defines materiality as the magnitude of an omission or misstatement that would influence the decisions of a user of financial statements. Audit planning needs to incorporate considerations of …

Vocal Response To Pain In Piglets, Daniel M. Weary, Leah A. Braithwaite, David Fraser

Farm Animal Welfare Collection

Three experiments were performed attempting to establish the validity of vocal measures as an indicator of the immediate response to pain in domestic piglets. Vocalisations were measured while piglets were subjected to the routine farm practice of castration without anaesthetic, or restrained identically but not castrated (i.e., sham-castrated). In Experiment 1 we measured how calling changed during the different stages of the procedure, and in Experiments 2 and 3 we measured the effect of different restraint techniques. Piglets that were castrated produced significantly more high frequency calls ( >1000 Hz) than sham castrates in all three experiments. In Experiment 1, …

Continuing Duty To Warn: Public Policy And Managerial Views, Karl Boedecker, Fred W. Morgan, Allen Saviers

Economics, Law, and International Business

No abstract provided.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Individual and Community by Robert P. Lawry
• Good-bye, Denise
• Ethics Dinner Features Barbara J. Blodgett
• Dr. Caroline Whitbeck Presents Inaugural Lecture
• News & Notes

Ethical Choices In Business : By R C Sekhar, New Delhi : Response Books, 1997., Rishikesha T Krishnan

IIMB Management Review

Rishikesha Krishnan is Assistant Professor, Corporate Strategy & Policy, at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He currently teaches the core course Business & Ethical Values in the institute’s Post Graduate Programme in Management.

Proceedings Of The Fifth International Women In Leadership Conference: Ethics Or Leadership? The 90'S Dilemma, Adrianne Kinnear (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

The International Women in Leadership conference attracts internationally renowned speakers as well as a wide audience from across the nation. The Conference is at the forefront of organisational and leadership research and provides a means of personal interaction with preeminent female researchers and leaders in Australia and overseas. Such interaction deepens the understanding of the leadership capacities of women and of leadership in organisations, knowledge which is central to the intellectual work of the Women in Leadership Project. Held at the Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, from the 25th-27th November 1996, the Fifth International Women in Leadership conference focused on the theme: …

Department Of Fisheries Annual Report 1997/1998, Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Department of Fisheries Annual Reports

In accordance with Section 62 of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985, I submit for your information the Annual Report of Fisheries WA for the financial year ending 30 June 1998.

The Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Administration and Audit 1985 and Section 263 of the Fish Resources Management 1994.