Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE BUSINESS
- 1 Managing Conflicts of Interest within Organizations: Does Activating Social Values Change the Impact of Self-Interest on Behavior?
- 2 Commentary: On Tyler's “Managing Conflicts of Interest within Organizations”
- 3 A Review of Experimental and Archival Conflicts-of-Interest Research in Auditing
- 4 Commentary: Conflicts of Interest in Accounting
- 5 Bounded Ethicality as a Psychological Barrier to Recognizing Conflicts of Interest
- 6 Commentary: Bounded Ethicality and Conflicts of Interest
- 7 Coming Clean but Playing Dirtier: The Shortcomings of Disclosure as a Solution to Conflicts of Interest
- 8 Commentary: Psychologically Naive Assumptions about the Perils of Conflicts of Interest
- PART TWO MEDICINE
- PART THREE LAW
- PART FOUR PUBLIC POLICY
- Index
- References
7 - Coming Clean but Playing Dirtier: The Shortcomings of Disclosure as a Solution to Conflicts of Interest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE BUSINESS
- 1 Managing Conflicts of Interest within Organizations: Does Activating Social Values Change the Impact of Self-Interest on Behavior?
- 2 Commentary: On Tyler's “Managing Conflicts of Interest within Organizations”
- 3 A Review of Experimental and Archival Conflicts-of-Interest Research in Auditing
- 4 Commentary: Conflicts of Interest in Accounting
- 5 Bounded Ethicality as a Psychological Barrier to Recognizing Conflicts of Interest
- 6 Commentary: Bounded Ethicality and Conflicts of Interest
- 7 Coming Clean but Playing Dirtier: The Shortcomings of Disclosure as a Solution to Conflicts of Interest
- 8 Commentary: Psychologically Naive Assumptions about the Perils of Conflicts of Interest
- PART TWO MEDICINE
- PART THREE LAW
- PART FOUR PUBLIC POLICY
- Index
- References
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- Conflicts of InterestChallenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy, pp. 104 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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