Rogue Traders: Dutch Businessmen, International Crimes and Corporate Complicity

Witnessing and Complicity: Sexual Crimes and Wrongful Accusation

s (Banff Retreat) ISHN and Cheiron Joint Meeting Banff (19-23 June 2011), Alberta, Canada The Professional Development Centre in Banff (photograph courtesy of the Banff Centre for the Arts). Sunday Afternoon, June 19, 2011

Understanding corporate responsibility: culture and complicity.

Kipnis's fictional account of the televised treatment of Elaine Robbins clearly shows the surgeon's negligence (Kipnis 2011). The problems with Anodyne's support for the telesurgery breakfast are harder to discern, but show up clearly when we take into consideration how surgical evidence is generated, evaluated, and used by surgeons. Current evidentiary practices in surgery have two major weakn...

International Corporate Governance and Corporate Cash Holdings

Agency problems are an important determinant of corporate cash holdings. For a sample of more than 11,000 firms from 45 countries, we find that corporations in countries where shareholders rights are not well protected hold up to twice as much cash as corporations in countries with good shareholder protection. In addition, when shareholder protection is poor, factors that generally drive the ne...

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes

Causeless complicity

I argue, contrary to standard claims, that accomplice liability need not be a causal relation. One can be an accomplice to another’s crime without causally contributing to the criminal act of the principal. This is because the acts of aid and encouragement that constitute the basis for accomplice liability typically occur in contexts of underand over-determination, where causal analysis is conf...