Corporate Governance and Business Ethics - Towards an Integrated Approach

2004

Bonn, I

Fisher, Josephine A

Editor(s): University of Otago

Conference Publication

en

Publication

Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)

Dunedin, New Zealand

une:2414

In this paper we develop an integrated approach towards corporate governance and business ethics. Our central argument is that organisations can learn from the experience of strategic planning in the 1970s and 1980s. We identify three potential weaknesses - a bureaucratic and formalised approach, lack of implementation and lack of integration throughout the organisation - which were prevalent in strategic planning in the past and which are potentially just as problematic for an integrated corporate governance approach to business ethics. We identify how these weaknesses might be addressed and provide questions for boards of directors to consider when integrating ethical concerns into their organisations' corporate governance structures.

link

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference: People First - Serving Our Stakeholders

0476011310