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Setting the Stage

Introduction to the Special Issue on the "Corporate Meltdown"

Texas A&M University

The 2002 meltdown of major U.S. corporations was the culmination of a number of interrelated trends that started in the 1970s and continued unabated through the 1990s. Cultural myths, public policies, and organizational practices coalesced to create a fraud-inducing system, one in which executive selection and reward systems encouraged unethical and/or illegal activities, public discourse elevated private financial gain over the interests of multiple stakeholders and glorified short-term asset appreciation while denigrating long-term corporate development, and public policies and institutional changes seriously weakened executive accountability.

Key Words: ethics • corporate governance • Enron • corruption

Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, 5-19 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0893318903253418


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