Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron's board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company's aggressive financial strategies and accounting practices? Why did Enron's external watchdogs-security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies-fail to bark? ...
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Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron's board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company's aggressive financial strategies and accounting practices? Why did Enron's external watchdogs-security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies-fail to bark? What actions can prevent Enron-type breakdowns in the future? Innovation Corrupted addresses each of these questions. In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron's collapse. Based upon newly available sources, Salter identifies the social pathologies and administrative failures that fostered the company's ethical drift and inhibited the board of directors from exercising effective governance and control. Salter also goes beyond the work of previous books by proposing practical recommendations for preventing future Enron-type disasters. These prescriptions relate to board oversight, financial incentives for executives, and, most importantly, the maintenance of ethical discipline when operating in the murky borderlands of the law. It was in this shadowed space that Enron's senior executives lost their way.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 525 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Tables, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008004259 Type of material Book Personal name Salter, Malcolm S. Main title Innovation corrupted: the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse / Malcolm S. Salter. Published/Created Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008. Description viii, 525 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780674028258 (alk. paper) LC classification HD9502. U54 E579225 2008 Contents From innovation to reckless gambling--The impact of perverse incentives--The evolving culture of deceit--Ethical drift--The directors' failure--Collusion of financial intermediaries--Enron and the public watchdogs--Strengthening board oversight--Avoiding perverse financial incentives--Instilling ethical discipline. Subjects Enron Corp. --Corrupt practices. Enron Corp. --Management. Business ethics--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-508) and index. Dewey class no. 333.790973 Geographic area code n-us---
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