Conflicts Of Interest And The Case Of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction And Strategic Issue Cycling
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- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 31 (1) , 10-29
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2006.19379621
Abstract
A series of financial scandals revealed a key weakness in the American business model: the failure of the U.S. auditing system to deliver true independence. We offer a two-tiered analysis of what went wrong. At the more micro tier, we advance moral seduction theory, explaining why professionals are often unaware of how morally compromised they have become by conflicts of interest. At the more macro tier, we offer issue-cycle theory, explaining why conflicts of interest of the sort that compromise major accounting firms are so pervasive.Keywords
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