The Good Fraud: Accounting, Finance and Banking in a 1930s English Novel

Napier, Christopher J.

doi:10.3280/cca2017-002003

Contabilità E Cultura Aziendale

2017

DOI: 10.3280/cca2017-002003

|View full text |Cite

The Good Fraud: Accounting, Finance and Banking in a 1930s English Novel

Christopher J. Napier¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2018

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 36 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“… 1. In the accounting history literature, for example, Rutterford and Maltby (2006) have used Trollope’s novels as sources for information about the involvement of women in the ownership and management of property in the nineteenth century. Napier (2017) has reviewed the use of literary sources by accounting historians. …”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance

Shah

Napier

2018

Accounting History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Why do we use the term ‘corporate governance’ rather than ‘corporate direction’? Early British joint stock companies were normally managed by a single ‘governor’. The ‘court of governors’ or ‘board of directors’ emerged slowly as the ruling body for companies. By the nineteenth century, however, companies were typically run by directors while not-for-profit entities such as hospitals, schools and charitable bodies had governors. The nineteenth century saw steady refinement of the roles of company directors, often in response to corporate scandals, with a gradual change from the notion of the director as a ‘representative shareholder’ to the directors being seen collectively as ‘representatives of the shareholders’. Governors in not-for-profit entities, however, were regarded as having broader responsibilities. The term ‘governance’ itself suggests that corporate boards should be studied as ‘political’ entities rather than merely through economic lenses such as agency theory.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance

Shah

Napier

2018

Accounting History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

The Good Fraud: Accounting, Finance and Banking in a 1930s English Novel

Cited by 1 publication

References 36 publications

Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance

Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About