Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy.

OVERVIEW

This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It investigates how to manage conflicts of interest, how they can affect well-meaning professionals, and how they can limit the effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics, and corrupt expert opinion. Legal and policy responses are considered, some of which (e.g., disclosure) are shown to backfire and even fail. The results offer a sobering prognosis for professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who have conflicts of interest. The contributors are leading authorities on the subject in the fields of law, medicine, management, public policy, and psychology. The nuances of the problems posed by conflicts of interest will be highlighted for readers in an effort to demonstrate the many ways that structuring incentives can affect decision making and organizations' financial well-being.

• Co-editors George Loewenstein and Max Bazerman are two of the US's leading specialists in organizational behavior
• Contributors are also internationally renowned
• Can be used for coursework in many disciplines on organization

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I. Business:
1. Managing conflicts of interest within organizations: does activating social values change the impact of self-interest on behavior? Tom R. Tyler
2. Commentary: on Tyler's 'Managing conflicts of interest within organizations'; Robyn Dawes
3. A review of experimental and archival conflicts-of-interest research in auditing; Mark W. Nelson
4. Commentary: conflicts of interest in accounting; Don A. Moore
5. Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest; Dolly Chugh, Max H. Bazerman and Mahzarin R. Banaji;
6. Commentary: bounded ethicality and conflicts of interest; Anne E. Tenbrunsel
7. Coming clean but playing dirtier: the shortcomings of disclosure as a solution to conflicts of interest; Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore
8. Commentary: psychologically naive assumptions about the perils of conflicts of interest; Dale T. Miller

Part II. Medicine:
9. Physicians' financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry: a critical element of a formidable marketing network; Jerome P. Kassirer
10. Commentary: how did we get into this mess? Peter A. Ubel
11. Why are (some) conflicts of interest in medicine so uniquely vexing? Andrew Stark
12. Commentary: financial conflicts of interest and the identity of academic medicine; Scott Y. H. Kim

Part III. Law:
13. Legal responses to conflicts of interest; Samuel Issacharoff
14. Commentary: conflicts of interest begin where principal-agent problems end; George Loewenstein
15. Strategic ignorance of harm: conflicts of interest and the circumvention of ethical rules; Jason Dana
16. Commentary: economic behavior Daylian M. Cain

Part IV. Public Policy:
17. Conflicts of interest in public policy research Robert J. MacCoun
18. Commentary: conflicts of interest in policy analysis: compliant pawns in their game? Baruch Fischhoff
19. Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning; Robert H. Frank
20. Commentary: conflict of interest as a threat to consequentialist reasoning; David M. Messick