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Truth or Profit?
The Ethics and Business of Public Accounting
Duncan Green, Dean Neu
The images will not go away—huge multinational corporations failing, well-dressed executives being led away in handcuffs, and public accounting firms being charged for complicity. How do we make sense of the reality behind these images? Is it, as cynics claim, that public accountants are self-seeking, offering a form of window-dressing for greedy corporate executives? Or is public accounting a profession doing the best it can in the face of difficult circumstances? Are public accountants driven… (more information)
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Their Lives Out of Balance
Robert Locke, J.-C. Spender
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of the economic engines vital to our growth and social progress now seem closer to the rapacious ‘robber barons’ of the 1880s. In effect, responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby… (more information)