The evidence suggests the impact of CEOs on company performance isn’t enough to justify their sky-high pay, which is really based more on a culture of power and privilege.
- Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Westpac’s focus on the bottom line benefits of gender diversity overlook the fact that equality is a political imperative, not a corporate one.
Research shows that companies will back ethical causes only if they know they will benefit from the stance.
It’s not just that Ahmed Fahour earns a lot of money. Australia Post had, until this week, been able to keep its CEO’s salary top secret.
The idea that the United States can be run by business people in the same way they would run a corporation is the new political status quo.
Irish tax case shows the real cost of competition – our democracy.
Volkswagen’s strategy shows that problems like the emissions scandal are likely to continue.
The politics that Malcolm Turnbull and the big banks support is one in which people are robbed of their citizenship and reduced to economic functionaries.
Businesses are reducing the UK tax take with a new form of self-employment which harks back to mediaeval England.
Banks may pay lip service to ethical cultures but often curtail the critical questioning that allows ethical issues to be surfaced in the first place.
The controversy over gambling companies and sport masks a much bigger problem most of us seem ok with.
For business ethics to be effective they must be pushed onto corporations against their will. Business ethics is democratic, not corporate.
Why would anyone accept that corporations could possibly be responsible and ethical in the first place?
With Australia planning its own Google tax, we’re likely to see state power and sovereignty come into direct conflict with corporate might.
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