Cases in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

The authors and contributors of this unique textbook understand that corporate governance and ethics are interrelated issues when it comes to leading and managing organisations. Responding to the demands of a growing number of combined/interrelated modules on governance and ethics in universities, colleges and professional institutes, this casebook brings the two disciplines together. The cases are presented on a ‘spectrum’, with a focus on corporate governance at one end and ethics at the other. In many of the cases, the issues involved require the use of both ‘lenses’. Designed for the business leadership element of the Chartered Accountants Ireland education programme, and students of corporate governance and business ethics at third level, the book is in two parts: Part I provides overview chapters on the background to, and general principles of, corporate governance and ethics, encouraging and enabling students to consider and apply these principles in a business context. In Part II, the cases themselves are multifaceted yet concise, and range from those allowing a more straightforward, ‘rules-based’ approach to more complex cases where there may not be a single ‘right answer’. Contributions from multiple authors and contributors offer alternative perspectives, and the combination of their extensive experience in, and observations of, corporate governance and ethics in a business context brings a practical dimension to the theoretical concepts.