Corporate Governance and Leadership: Reflections on Kailas’s and Mendiola’s Chapters

Corporate Governance and Leadership: Reflections on Kailas’s and Mendiola’s Chapters

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Properly constructed corporations can exhibit some of the virtues they need, even if their employees often fall short, provided there are proper procedures in place. This might be the point of governance—including auditors, securities and exchange commissions, bank regulators, annual meetings—and of boards themselves. Beyond this formal governance, we likely need to draw on existing standards of professional ethics and to develop organization-specific norms. Kailas in his chapter focuses on developing a shared corporate purpose, emphasizing the role of leadership in decision-making. Mendiola in his chapter examines the moral virtues and skills essential for CEOs, stressing personal integrity and respectfulness. It’s really important that learning norms isn’t just a matter of figuring out what will get and lose you respect. It’s a matter of caring; about being worthy of respect; of knowing not just what will get you respect but what will actually entitle you to it.

First Page

294

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198944249.003.0040

Source Publication

Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge Between Performance and Progress

Source Editors/Authors

Subramanian Rangan

Publication Date

4-8-2025

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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