Conflicts of interest and the case of auditor independence: Moral seduction and strategic issue cycling

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Moore, DA; Tetlock, PE; Tanlu, L; Bazerman, MH
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 10-29
• 关键词: NONAUDIT SERVICES; decision-making; group-size; ACCOUNTABILITY; physicians; fairness; management; pressure; ability; fees

摘要

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.