Critical Discussion of Balancing Corporate Performance and Conformance
Keywords:
balance performance and conformance, ethical practices, social responsibility, window dressing, monoculture, collectivism.Abstract
This paper tries to ask what are the facts and truths and never let the flow of the research go to what we wish to believe. The aim is to identify how a company is able to balance performance and conformance in a sufficient way and learn from cases like Enron in 2001 and Worldcom in 2005 in order to teach those companies about record financial documentations to stay away from being charged by the
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