"I Didn't Know" and "I Was Only Doing My Job": Has Corporate Governance Careened Out of Control? A Case Study of Enron's Information Myopia

By J. Cohan. 2002

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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets (2013, unknown): “On Enron, see Samuelson (2001), Cohan (2002), Eichenwald (2005) and Pearlstein (2006).”
A study of the impact of three leadership styles on integrity violations committed by police officers (2007, background): “By contrast, integrity violations such as fraud and corruption can result in enormous financial losses, severe reputational damage, bankruptcy (Cohan, 2002; Gini, 2004) and even the implosion of a country’s economic and political system (Bull and Newell, 2003; Della Porta and Mény, 1997).”
Rebounding from Corruption: Perceptions of Ethics Program Effectiveness in a Public Sector Organization (2006, background): “Other examples of unethical organizational practices include fraudulent billing for Medicaid services, the moral failings of the United States’ tobacco industry (Schwarz, 2001), Enron’s scheme to illegally manipulate prices in California’s energy market, and the subsequent shredding of evidential do”
The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations (2006, background): “Indeed, many of them still claim that they did nothing wrong (Cohan, 2002).”