What Enron Means for the Management and Control of the Modern Business Corporation: Some Initial Reflections

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Taking Strategy Seriously (2003, background): “Here we focus on Enron as a particularly skillful manipulator of the strategy field and as a case already prompting corrections in adjacent fields, such as accounting (Gordon, 2002).”
Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found (2003, background): “Between 1972 and 2001, at least 121 papers empirically examined the relationship between companies’ socially responsible conduct and their financial performance (Margolis & Walsh, 2003).”
To Fair Value or Not to Fair Value: A Broader Perspective (2008, background): “18 Witness the accounting scandals during the early years of this decade and the vast literature addressing the failures of corporate governance (Baber et al. , 1995; Levitt, 1998; Bratton, 2002; Chaney and Philpich, 2002; Gordon, 2002; Brickey, 2003; Cox, 2003; Cunningham, 2003; Coffee, 2004) and c”
Management accounting and corporate governance: An institutional interpretation of the agency problem (2006, background): “Effective corporate governance seemed to be based on myths propagated by practitioners and academics—the myth of auditor independence; the myth of “Chinese walls” in corporate banks and, especially, the myth of “efficient” capital markets (Gordon, 2002).”