Corporate Integrity and Accountability

George G. Brenkert is Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute.   He is current Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics, of which he is also a past President. Since 2000, Professor Brenkert has been Director, Georgetown Business Ethics Institute, and is past President, Society for Business Ethics.  Formerly, he was Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee.  He is author of Marx′s Ethics of Freedom (London:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983), and Political Freedom (London:  Routledge, 1991).  Professor Brenkert′s refereed articles have appeared in numerous journals such as: The Journal of Ethics; Business Ethics Quarterly;and Public Affairs Quarterly. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, the International Association for Business and Society, the North American Society for Social Philosophy and the Society for Business Ethics.

This book was used in a graduate course on Business Ethics and was a useful resource for learning and discussion

• CHAPTER 1.THE NEED FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY - George BrenkertPART I: CORPORATE INTEGRITY CHALLENGED - George BrenkertCHAPTER 2Wittgenstein′s Bedrock: What Business Ethicists Do. - Ronald BerenbeimCHAPTER 3Tylenol Revisited, Friedman, and the Current CSR Debate - David CollinsCHAPTER 4The Practicality of Pluralism: Redrawing the Simple Picture of Bipolarism and Compliance in Business Ethics - Johan Wempe and Thomas DonaldsonCHAPTER 5.Integrity in the Private, the Public and the Corporate Domain - Henk van LuijkPART II: FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY - George BrenkertCHAPTER 6.Why Conflicts of Interest and Abuse of Information Asymmetry are Keys to Lack of Integrity and What Should be Done About it? - Norman Bowie CHAPTER 7.An Ethical Framework for Auditor Independence - Thomas W. Dunfee, Alan S. Glazer, Henry R. Jaenicle, Susan McGrath, and Arthur SiegelCHAPTER 8.The Ethics of Financial Reporting, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Balanced Concept of the Firm - Georges Enderle CHAPTER 9.What is a Successful Company? (A Path to Understanding Accountability - Josep LozanoCHAPTER 10. Small Firm Integrity and Accountability - George BrenkertPart III. INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF GLOBAL BUSINESS - George BrenkertCHAPTER 11. The U.S. Business Scandals: Perspectives on Ethics and Culture at Home and Abroad - Frank VoglCHAPTER 12. Is Corruption Always Corrupt? - Manuel VelasquezCHAPTER 13Law, Accountability and Globalization - Richard DeGeorgeCHAPTER 14The Next Generation of Codes of Conduct - Bruce MoatsCHAPTER 15Global Business Ethics: A Multi-Institutional Approach - John DienhartPART IV.FOSTERING CORPORATE INTEGRITY - George BrenkertCHAPTER 16Corporate Integrity within a Corporate Citizenship Framework - Steven RochlinCHAPTER 17CEO Compensation - Parameters, Paradigms and Paradoxes - Eleanor O′HigginsCHAPTER 18Shareholder Engagement: Does It Promote CSR? - Jane CollierCHAPTER 19Instilling Moral Competence - Catherine Smith and Pieter Kroon