Conflicts of Interest Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy

Name: Conflicts of Interest Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy
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ISBN: 9780521844390

ISBN-10: 0521844398

ISBN-13: 9780521844390

Edition: 2005

Authors: Don A. Moore, Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein, Max H. Bazerman

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This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It investigates how to manage conflicts of interest, how they can affect well-meaning professionals, and how they can limit the effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics, and corrupt expert opinion. Legal and policy responses are considered, some of which (e.g., disclosure) are shown to backfire and even fail. The results offer a sobering prognosis for professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who have conflicts of interest. The contributors are leading authorities on the subject in the fields of law, medicine, management, public policy, and psychology. The nuances of the problems…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction




Business



Managing conflicts of interest within organizations: does activating social values change the impact of self-interest on behavior?




Commentary: on Tyler's 'Managing conflicts of interest within organizations'




A review of experimental and archival conflicts-of-interest research in auditing




Commentary: conflicts of interest in accounting




Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest




Commentary: bounded ethicality and conflicts of interest




Coming clean but playing dirtier: the shortcomings of disclosure as a solution to conflicts of interest




Commentary: psychologically naive assumptions about the perils of conflicts of interest




Medicine



Physicians' financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry: a critical element of a formidable marketing network




Commentary: how did we get into this mess?




Why are (some) conflicts of interest in medicine so uniquely vexing?




Commentary: financial conflicts of interest and the identity of academic medicine




Law



Legal responses to conflicts of interest




Commentary: conflicts of interest begin where principal-agent problems end




Conflicts of interest and strategic ignorance of harm




Commentary: strategic ignorance of harm




Public Policy



Conflicts of interest in public policy research




Commentary: conflicts of interest in policy analysis: compliant pawns in their game?




Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning




Commentary: conflict of interest as a threat to consequentialist reasoning



Index