Fernando's Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

INTRODUCTION

The phenomenal growth of m odern corporations, especially those which have been immensely

successful so as to span space to become multinationals, have brought about the kind and order

of material wealth to the international community that was never imagined possible even a

few years ago. Some of them produce goods and services for most parts of the world. Some

of them make prots that are bigger than the gross domestic products of several countries

put together. This kind of almost exponential growth would not have been possible, but for

the evolution and growth of the organizational structure called public limited or joint stock ...