Friday, October 14, 2005

The Future of Corporate Governance


Taking personal responsibility for economic and ethical performance of corporations - Corporate governance and business ethics articles by Dr Patrick Dixon, ranked as one of the 50 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers50).

Failure in corporate governance is a real threat to the future of every corporation. Corporate governance as a business ethics issue is a hundred times more powerful than the internet or globalisation and can destroy your business in a week. To make matters worse, standards of corporate governance are changing rapidly in response to random events which capture public imagination. In business ethics, what was good is becoming bad and what was considered bad is now good. Standards for corporate governance that have worked for decades are looking old fashioned or immoral while other practices that raised questions are becoming totally acceptable.

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