The Relationship of Organizational Scandals, Strategy and Performance

Abstract

The main subject of this is article is the phenomenon of corporate scandals, their impacts and causes. With the aim of elucidating processes that facilitate these scandals, a true entity’s strategy paper is detailed to reveal the story of its scandal, and the literature about other scandals and corporate governance is reviewed. In addition, material findings of regulatory authorities on these issues are also utilized. In conclusion, this study finds that top managers and other powerful stakeholders would rather prefer performance based corporate strategies even when it is imbalanced. As for opinion about corporate strategy formulation and implementation, some ideas, based on scrupulous consideration of the structure of risk and benefit among stakeholders, are suggested.

Keywords

• Scandal,Performance,Misconduct,Strategy,CEO salary

KURUMSAL SKANDAL, STRATEJİ VE PERFORMANS İLİŞKİSİ

Öz

Bu çalışmanın konusu, son yıllarda yurt dışında sıkça ortaya çıkan kurumsal skandal olgusu, etkileri ve nedenleridir. Bazı kurumlarda skandala yol açan süreçlerin aslına uygun olarak tespit edilmesine katkı sağlayabilmek için gerçek bir skandal örneği, kurumun strateji belgesinin yardımıyla incelenmiş, ayrıca, diğer büyük skandallar ve kurumsal yönetişime ilişkin yurt dışı yayınlar taranmış ve düzenleyici kurumların önemli bulguları kullanılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, performans odaklı kurumsal stratejilerin dengesiz olduğu halde dahi yöneticiler ve güçlü paydaşlar için çok cazip olabildiği ortaya konulmuştur. Stratejilerde paydaşlar arası risk-fayda dengesinin gözetilmesine ilişkin öneriler yapılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Skandal,Performans,Kötü Yönetim,Strateji,Yönetici Ücreti

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