Conflicts of Interest
Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy
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- Editors:
- Don A. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Daylian M. Cain, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Max H. Bazerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: June 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521143462
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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 posed by conflicts of interest will be highlighted for readers in an effort to demonstrate the many ways that structuring incentives can affect decision making and organizations' financial well-being.
Read more- Co-editors George Loewenstein and Max Bazerman are two of the US's leading specialists in organizational behavior
- Contributors are also internationally renowned
- Can be used for coursework in many disciplines on organization
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"This books is a genuine public service, above all because it shows how human psychology can make conflicts of interest quite intractable. Often, for example, people believe that it is enough for those with a conflict simply to disclose it. Unfortunately, disclosure often does little or no good. Filled with insights and highly relevant to public policy, this outstanding book is must reading for anyone interested in the role of conflicts of interest in both private and public sectors." Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago
See more reviews"This skillfully edited volume takes social-science analysis of conflicts of interest well beyond the traditional confines of principal-agent theory. Readers are guaranteed to come away with a sharper appreciation for why, so often, what one observer decries as a shameful conflict of interest, another observer applauds as blissful symbiosis." Philip E. Tetlock, University of California, Berkeley
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- Date Published: June 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521143462
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Don A. Moore, George Loewenstein, Daylian M. Cain, and Max H. Bazerman
Part I. Business:
1. Managing conflicts of interest within organizations: does activating social values change the impact of self-interest on behavior? Tom R. Tyler
2. Commentary: on Tyler's 'Managing conflicts of interest within organizations' Robyn Dawes
3. A review of experimental and archival conflicts-of-interest research in auditing Mark W. Nelson
4. Commentary: conflicts of interest in accounting Don A. Moore
5. Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest Dolly Chugh, Max H. Bazerman and Mahzarin R. Banaji
6. Commentary: bounded ethicality and conflicts of interest Ann E. Tenbrunsel
7. Coming clean but playing dirtier: the shortcomings of disclosure as a solution to conflicts of interest Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore
8. Commentary: psychologically naive assumptions about the perils of conflicts of interest Dale T. Miller
Part II. Medicine:
9. Physicians' financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry: a critical element of a formidable marketing network Jerome P. Kassirer
10. Commentary: how did we get into this mess? Peter A. Ubel
11. Why are (some) conflicts of interest in medicine so uniquely vexing? Andrew Stark
12. Commentary: financial conflicts of interest and the identity of academic medicine Scott Y. H. Kim
Part III. Law:
13. Legal responses to conflicts of interest Samuel Issacharoff
14. Commentary: conflicts of interest begin where principal-agent problems end George Loewenstein
15. Conflicts of interest and strategic ignorance of harm Jason Dana
16. Commentary: strategic ignorance of harm Daylian M. Cain
Part IV. Public Policy:
17. Conflicts of interest in public policy research Robert J. MacCoun
18. Commentary: conflicts of interest in policy analysis: compliant pawns in their game? Baruch Fischhoff
19. Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning Robert H. Frank
20. Commentary: conflict of interest as a threat to consequentialist reasoning David M. Messick
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