Enron and the Business World (introduction to chapter 2 of Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications)

Nancy B. Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center (moving to Boyd School of Law, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, in summer 2007
Bala G. Dharan, Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Management

Abstract

Could anyone have discovered Enron's frauds before its meltdown in 2001? What was the regulatory framework, from both a legal and a business perspective, that allowed Enron to hide its wrongdoing for so long?