Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public agencies and their employees, and associated...

Empirical evidence demonstrates that America's diverse population holds differing approaches to ethics, compliance, and risk. In-house counsel can harness these differences to assure that a firm's conduct comports with, and acclimates to, the differing ethical and compliance sensibilities and...

An essential component of ethics and compliance programs is the training of organizational members. Training helps ensure that all employees understand their legal and regulatory obligations, and company policies. There are significant legal incentives for organizations to adopt training but...

This article provides a big-picture overview of the field of ethics and compliance, paying particular attention to the role and value of collaborating with human resources to achieving effective ethics and compliance programs. I hope this article will be useful to students of ethics and...

There is widespread recognition that organizational culture matters in corporations involved in systemic crime and wrongdoing. However, we know far less about how to assess and alter toxic elements within a corporate culture. The present paper draws on management science, anthropology, sociology...

Der vorliegende Beitrag skizziert ein ordonomisches Diskussionsangebot zur Korruptionsprävention durch und in Unternehmen. Hierzu nimmt er sowohl eine wirtschaftsethische (Korruptionsprävention durch Unternehmen) als auch unternehmensethische Perspektive ein (Korruptionsprävention in...