Managerial Betrayal: Justifying the Punishment of Enron’s Management

Justifying Capital Punishment in Principle and in Practice: Empirical Evidence of Distortion in Application

Qualitative Analysis for Trust Management: Towards a Model of Photograph Sharing Indiscretion

Grounded Theory provides a useful approach for eliciting and justifying subjective characteristics of individuals. A Grounded Theory analysis is carried on individuals who share pictures, with a view to developing a trust management policy model of indiscretion regarding the sharing of photographs.

Choosy Moral Punishers

The punishment of social misconduct is a powerful mechanism for stabilizing high levels of cooperation among unrelated individuals. It is regularly assumed that humans have a universal disposition to punish social norm violators, which is sometimes labelled "universal structure of human morality" or "pure aversion to social betrayal". Here we present evidence that, contrary to this hypothesis, ...

Efficiency of Information Management and Analysis for Industrial Entrepreneurship

Information Management and Analysis (IMA) implies the single data and knowledge base of the business organization whose algorithm and software complex is designed to solve functional problems of operating and dispatch management, marketing, financial arrangements, accounting, strategic planning and organizing e-document flow between the sources and users of information. The “information – commu...

Where have all of Enron’s intangibles gone?

On December 31, 2000, Enron’s market value was $75.2 billion, while its book value (balance sheet equity) was $11.5 billion. The market-to-book gap of almost $64 billion, while not equal to the value of intangibles (it reflects, among other things, differences between current and historical-cost values of physical assets), appears to indicate that Enron had substantial intangibles just half a y...