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Ethics Article Review Paper (Revised)
Shirley Smith
University of Phoenix
FIN 324
Walter P. Lambert
December 1, 2006

A study done between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, looking at various ethic theories, such as stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy theory.
Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses and designed to restore confidence and maintain integrity in businesses. Companies are to disclose if they have a code of ethics. Under the rules, a company must disclose whether it has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the company's principle executive officer, principle financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or person performing similar functions.
The stockholder theory suggests that organizations are responsible only to......

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