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- 2003 Student Attitudes Survey
This research study continues the work started in 1999 at the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. This research reports documented our2003 research findings on the impact of MBA education...
Citation: 2003 Student Attitudes Survey. 2003. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy
- A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics
Are corporate codes of ethics necessarily ethical? To challenge this notion, an initial set of universal moral standards is proposed by which all corporate codes of ethics can be ethically evaluated....
Citation: Schwartz, Mark. 2002. A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 41 (1):27-44.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Codes of Conduct, Theory
- A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World
This clever and insightful book reveals the depth and breadth of high moral character and competence in the corporate world. The good news is that the corporate world, by and large, is in good shape....
Citation: Gene Del Vecchio and Roderick Fong. 2003. A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World Paramount Market Publishing
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Aspects of Accounting Codes of Ethics in Canada, Egypt, and Japan
This article offers a review of ethics codes of accounting professional organizations in Canada, Egypt, and Japan. By considering these codes, accounting professionals, including corporate accountants and internal auditors, will enhance their appreciation of the important role of accounting ethics in countries around the globe....
Citation: Smith, Murphy, Peereyuth P. Charoensukmongk, Ahmed Elkassabgi, and Kuo-Hao H. Lee. 2009. Aspects of Accounting Codes of Ethics in Canada, Egypt, and Japan. Internal Auditing, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 26-34, November-December. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1568324
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Codes of Conduct
- Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action
n This report is a guide to companies preparing themselves to implement the objectives set out in UN's tenth principle to fight corruption within business operations. It examines why companies should fight corruption and outlines a number of practical steps to fight internal and external corruption....
Citation: S. Cote-Freeman, B. Errath, P Brew, J. Moberg and J. Brooks. 2006. Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action. Global Compact.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Codes of Conduct, Corruption, Leadership
- Business Ethics in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries: Codes of Conduct
Reviews use of codes, compares exisiting codes and recommends a standard code. Codes covered include those of Levi Strauss, Sara Lee, Phillips-van Heusen, The Gap, Reebok and Nike....
Citation: Sajhau, Jean-Paul. 1997. Business Ethics in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries: Codes of Conduct. Sectoral Activities Programme, International Labour Organization.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Carrots and Sticks. Promoting Transparency and Sustainability. An update on trends in Voluntary and Mandatory Approaches to Sustainability Reporting
This publication provides an up-to-date and expanded overview of mandatory and voluntary approaches to sustainability reporting and assurance....
Citation: GRI, UN Environment Programme, KPMG, and the Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa, Carrots and Sticks. Promoting Transparency and Sustainability. An update on trends in Voluntary and Mandatory Approaches to Sustainability Reporting, GRI, 2010.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- CBSR's Good Company Guidelines
These guidelines, created by CBSR in 2002, are a practical tool to enable companies to assess, improve and report on their social, environmental and financial performance. By using the GoodCompany Gui...
Citation: CBSR's GoodCompany Guidelines. 2002. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR).
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social
- Code of Conduct
The article reports on the efforts of the Human Resources Institute and Canadian Management Centre (HRI/CMC) to promote business ethics as the primary business concern of human resource managers. Jay...
Citation: Bowness, Sue. 2007. Code of Conduct. HR Professional 24 (1):15-15.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee
- Codes of Conduct as a Tool for Sustainable Governance in MNCs
This chapter discusses and analyses the increasingly popular tool - code - that MNCs are using to meet the goal of corporate sustainability. We discuss codes as reflexive regulation, look at the diff...
Citation: Bondy, K., Matten, D., and Moon, J. 2007. Codes of Conduct as a Tool for Sustainable Governance in MNCs. In Corporate Governance and Sustainability - Challenges for Theory and Practice, edited by S. Benn, Dunphy, D. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability
- Codes of Conduct in the Private Sector: A Review of the Academic Literature from 1987 to 2007
Sponsored by EthicsCentre CA and authored by Dr. Mark Baetz, Dr. A. Scott Carson, and Ms. Shelley McGill, this report is the definitive bibliographic source for research on the subject of Codes of Conduct in private sector workplaces....
Citation: Carson, A. Scott, Baetz, Mark, and McGill, Shelley. 2008. Codes of Conduct in the Private Sector: A Review of the Academic Literature from 1987 to 2007. [EthicsCentre CA].
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Labour
- Codes of Conduct of Multinational Companies and International Trade Union Action: Thoughts on the Contribution of State Law
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Citation: Vallee, Guylaine. 2003. Codes of Conduct of Multinational Companies and International Trade Union Action: Thoughts on the Contribution of State Law. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 58, No. 3. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1663810
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy - Regulation, Theory - Shareholder
- Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships
With funding for nonprofits shrinking and global markets shaky, our business and social sectors are both confronting an increasingly uncertain future. Many organizations are searching for innovative s...
Citation: Sagawa, Shirley and Eli Segal. 1999. Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility
This compendium of ethics codes and instruments of corporate responsibility was been compiled as a companion to the book Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization edited by Wesley...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2006. Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives
Get the inside track from some of the world's key sector initiativesThis report will:Update you on the progress of the various sector initiatives, highlighting which have developed a strong brand,...
Citation: Deborah Leipziger, Ethical Corporation Institute (2007). Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives. Special Report: March 2007. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour, Resource Extraction, Theory - Stakeholder
- Cultural and Socioeconomic Constraints on International Codes of Ethics: Lessons from Accounting
A framework is provided for the examination of cultural and socioeconomic factors that could impede the acceptance and implementation of a profession's international code of conduct. The framework is...
Citation: Cohen R., Jeffrey; Pant, Laurie; Sharp, David 1992. Cultural and Socioeconomic Constraints on International Codes of Ethics: Lessons from Accounting. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (9):687-700.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Economic - Social, Gender, Labour
- Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents
Public concerns about globalisation are growing. Many firms are trying to respond to these concerns, often by issuing statements of ethics or values that cover various facets of corporate conduct. Thi...
Citation: K. Gordon; M. Miyake. 1999. Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Consumer Issues, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Globalization, Resource Extraction
- Defining the Line Between the Public’s Right to Know and the Individual’s Right to Privacy
This study examines the news media ethical decision-making process, through interviews with journalists and journalism educators, and argues that the primary (but not exclusive) influences on the outcomes of ethical dilemmas in the newsroom are individual conscience, management leadership, and peer pressure. The study also examines future implications of technological and economic change in the media environment for the privacy issue....
Citation: Hulnick, Gail. 2001. Defining the Line Between the Publics Right to Know and the Individuals Right to Privacy. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Destination Management Business Concept for the Central Balkan Ecotourism Association – Kalofer
This paper presents options for improving and identifying ecotourism products and services, and a basis for management of the ecotourism destination in Kalofer, Bulgaria. It also offers principal step...
Citation: Ivanov, N. 2002. Destination Management Business Concept for the Central Balkan Ecotourism Association - Kalofer. Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Economic - Environmental, Sustainability
- Effective Corporate Codes of Ethics: Perceptions of Code Users
The study examines employee, managerial, and ethics officer perceptions regarding their companies’ codes of ethics. The study moves beyond examining the mere existence of a code of ethics to consider...
Citation: Schwartz, Mark. 2004. Effective Corporate Codes of Ethics: Perceptions of Code Users. Journal of Business Ethics 55 (4):321-341.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements
Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements presents and comments on exemplary ethics statements from leading corporations and organizations worldwide. Patrick E. Murphy offers seven principles to follow in de...
Citation: Murphy, Patrick E. 1997. Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements: University of Notre Dame Press
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance
- Ethical Globalization
The benefits and drawbacks of globalization continue to be hotly debated. And there is no doubt that companies operating across borders face complex challenges as they strive to conduct business in wa...
Citation: Ethical Globalization. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Globalization, Human Rights
- Ethical Responsibilities of Securities Lawyers
Perhaps the time has come for the Law Society to offer more pro-active guidance on this issue -- indicating that lawyers should (in appropriate circumstances) seek to guide their clients as to responsible conduct. Equally importantly, in a world where public expectations and legal norms are evolving rapidly, corporate boards should recognize their particular need for dispassionate and independent legal counsel....
Citation: Waitzer, Edward. 2012. Ethical Responsibilities of Securities Lawyers. Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Ethical Theory and Business
This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Contrasting business ethics approaches, Regulation of business, Performance Monitoring. G...
Citation: Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. 1996. Ethical Theory and Business. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Ethical Trade Futures: Strategies for Campaigners
High profile campaigns such as those directed at Shell and Nike have shown that NGOs can turn corporate unethical behaviour into a cost which business is keen to avoid. Where is this process heading?...
Citation: Simon Zadek. 2002. Ethical Trade Futures: Strategies for Campaigners. id21 Development Research Reporting Service.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study
This paper is an attempt to address the limited amount of research in the realm of organizational ethical climate in the not-for-profit sector. The paper draws from Victor and Cullen's (1988) theoreti...
Citation: Agarwal, James; Malloy, David Cruise. 1999. Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study. Journal of Business Ethics 20 (1):1-14.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour, Theory
- Ethics Still Un-addressed in Pandemic Preparedness. Possible Planning Guideline
Dr. Kirsty Duncan's article in the Spring 2006 edition of Management Ethics set past flu pandemics in historical context and discussed the anticipated "bird flu" threat along with emerging legal and ethical questions that employers - and employees - will likely face. Dr. Duncan explores these ethical dilemmas in this edition of Management Ethics as she explains the critical need for employers to develop effective preparedness plans as soon as possible....
Citation: Duncan, Kirsty. 2006. Ethics Still Un-addressed in Pandemic Preparedness: Possible Planning Guideline. EthicsCentre CA. [Management Ethics, Fall, pp. 1-6].
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour - Health & Safety
- Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Codes: The Statement Strength Evaluation Method (SSEM)
The increasing popularity and use of codes requires a technique for being able to distinguish how different codes compare to each other and to stakeholder demands for increased social, environmental a...
Citation: Bondy, K. 2007. Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Codes: The Statement Strength Evaluation Method (SSEM). Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Journal 14 (1):1-15.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business
- Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics
This study examines the collective agreement tools which allow journalists to take ethical stands and which offer them some protection against retribution by their employers for their actions. It argues that those instruments can help them win day-to-day battles, but, in the long run, their status as employees subjects them, for better or for worse, to their employers ethics. It also examines whether a policy of national editorials in CanWest Global Communications Corp.s Southam newspapers constitutes a threat to diversity of ideas, editorial opinion and the news reported in those newspapers....
Citation: Bob Bergen. 2002. Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour - Employee
- IFAC Tables Guidance on Codes of Conduct
The article reports that the International Federation of Accountants' (IFAC) Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Committee has issued draft new guidance to assist companies in Canada and their...
Citation: IFAC Tables Guidance on Codes of Conduct. 2006. CMA Management 80 (8):8-8.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- In Search of Ethics: Conversations with Men and Women of Character
American society seems to be in a constant state of recovery from a series of attacks on our social and economic morals and ethics. From the never-ending embarassment of the Clinton sex scandals to th...
Citation: Marrella, Len. 2001. In Search of Ethics: Conversations with Men and Women of Character DC Press.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- International Business Attitudes to Corruption: Survey 2006
This paper reports on the results of a survey conducted on business attitudes to corruption. The report argues that despite new laws criminalising foreign bribery, there have been few prosecutions out...
Citation: Simmons & Simmons. 2006. International Business Attitudes to Corruption: Survey 2006. Control Risks.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corruption
- Management Ethics [Fall, 2004]
Canadian Securities Administrators Corporate Governance Proposals; Editorial; Ethics Centre CA and Sheldon Chumir Foundation Offer Program on Whistle Blowing in Calgary and Toronto; Whistle Blowing; Speakers' Corner; Introduction to our Executive: Roman W. Kosmyna, C.A.; Upcoming Events; EthicsCentre CA Relocates...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2004. Management Ethics, Fall. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Transparency
- Management Ethics [Fall, 2008]
Prisoners' Dilemma; Corporate Charitable/Community Investment Programs; Editorial: Achieving and Sustaining Respect in the Workplace; Legislative Watch; Speakers Corner; New Member Profile; A Message from the Executive Director...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2008. Management Ethics, Fall. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Management Ethics [February, 2000]
IKEA in the news; Corporate ethics: What are the issues?; Business Ethics Terminology...
Citation: The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy.. 2000. Management Ethics, February. The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility
- Management Ethics [January / February, 1998]
Review of 1997 Events in Corporate Ethics. Its primary goal is to be useful to corporate and individual members of the Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy and others who are concerned with corporate or business ethics issues in practice....
Citation: The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy. 1998. Management Ethics, January / February. The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2005]
Cover: The most important issue...; Editorial: CEO Incomes; Ethics Education - Ten Lessons; Speakers' Corner; Upcoming Events; Letters to the Editors...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2005. Management Ethics, Spring. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education
- Management Ethics [Winter, 2005]
An Interview with Claude Lamoureux; Editorial: Management Ethics; Revised Corporate Governance Proposals Released; Speakers' Corner; Beware the Revisionist Interpretation of History; New Corporate Members; Upcoming Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2005. Management Ethics, Winter. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Transparency
- Manual: Codes and Practices of Five Garment Buyers in Africa
This manual provides information on the codes and practices of five major US based multinationals that source their garment and apparel products from manufacturing companies on the African continent....
Citation: SOMO. 2006. Manual: Codes and Practices of Five Garment Buyers in Africa. Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights
- MNC codes of conduct: CSR or corporate governance?
This paper questions the assumption that codes of conduct are a primary tool used for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and suggests that codes are not primarily tools for CSR but tools of corpora...
Citation: K. Bondy; D. Matten; J. Moon. 2006. MNC codes of conduct: CSR or corporate governance?: International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Theory - Stakeholder
- Moral Issues in Business
This book combines text, cases, and articles with comprehensiveness and flexibility. The chapters are distinct enough to be taught independent of one another. With two chapters on the nature of morali...
Citation: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry. 1997. Moral Issues in Business 7ed: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Economic
- Multinational Corporation Codes of Conduct: Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Governance?
We investigate the assumption found in code and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature that suggests codes are primarily associated with the CSR practices of an organization....
Citation: Bondy, Krista, Dirk Matten, and Jeremy Moon. 2008. "Multinational Corporation Codes of Conduct: Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Governance?" Corporate Governance: An International Review 16 (4): 294-311.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility
- Nurse Autonomy as Relational
This article seeks an improved understanding of nurse autonomy by looking at nursing through the lens of what recent feminist scholars have called ‘relational’ autonomy. A relational understanding of...
Citation: MacDonald, Chris. 2002. Nurse Autonomy as Relational. Nursing Ethics 9 (2):194-201.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Gender
- Possible Ethical Issues and Their Impact on The Firm: Perceptions Held by Public Accountants
The accounting profession is concerned with the ethical beliefs of its members. To this end, the authors surveyed public accountants, questioning them about the AICPA's "Code of Professional Conduct"...
Citation: David, Jeanne M.; Kantor, Jeffrey; Greenberg, Ira. 1994. Possible Ethical Issues and Their Impact on The Firm: Perceptions Held by Public Accountants. Journal of Business Ethics 13 (12):919-937.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Codes of Conduct
- Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First
When the business pages are full of stories of corruption and collapse… is there still a place for businesses with a strong code of ethics? Shel Horowitz says that not only can honest, ethical busines...
Citation: Horowitz, Shel. 2003. Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First: Accurate Writing & More
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corruption
- Round Table on Private and Public Sector Ethics / Table ronde sur l’éthique dans les secteurs public et privé
In a recent study of 361 Canadian CEOs, an overwhelming 84 per cent of CEOs believe in the correlation between ethical corporate behaviour and financial success.This report provides an overview of t...
Citation: (PWGSC), The Conference Board of Canada; Public Works and Government Services Canada. 2001. Round Table on Private and Public Sector Ethics / Table ronde sur lthique dans les secteurs public et priv. Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Social Standards: Toward an Active Ethical Involvement of Businesses in Developing Countries
As a consequence of the changing conditions of doing business, we can observe the emergence of an increasing number of industrial and company-specific codes of conduct, as well as social and environme...
Citation: Beschorner, Thomas; Muller, Martin. 2007. Social Standards: Toward an Active Ethical Involvement of Businesses in Developing Countries. Journal of Business Ethics 73 (1):11-20.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business
- The 2008 Student Attitudes Survey
This study examines MBA student attitudes based on research conducted in October 2007 at 15 leading MBA programs in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. This research began in 1999 when the Aspen Institute's...
Citation: A Closer Look at Applied Sustainability Centers. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Ethics.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Gender, Labour - Employee, Leadership
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