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Innovation corrupted: the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Harvard University Press 2008Description: viii, 525 pISBN:
  • 9780674028258
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4733379
Summary: 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 Enronzs collapse. Based upon newly available sources, Salter identifies the social pathologies and administrative failures that fostered the companyzs 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 Enronzs senior executives lost their way.
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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 Enronzs collapse. Based upon newly available sources, Salter identifies the social pathologies and administrative failures that fostered the companyzs 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 Enronzs senior executives lost their way.

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