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.

CHAPTER 1. THE NEED FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY - George Brenkert PART I: CORPORATE INTEGRITY CHALLENGED - George Brenkert CHAPTER 2 Wittgenstein's Bedrock: What Business Ethicists Do. - Ronald Berenbeim CHAPTER 3 Tylenol Revisited, Friedman, and the Current CSR Debate - David Collins CHAPTER 4 The Practicality of Pluralism: Redrawing the Simple Picture of Bipolarism and Compliance in Business Ethics - Johan Wempe and Thomas Donaldson CHAPTER 5. Integrity in the Private, the Public and the Corporate Domain - Henk van Luijk PART II: FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY - George Brenkert CHAPTER 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 Siegel CHAPTER 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 Lozano CHAPTER 10. Small Firm Integrity and Accountability - George Brenkert Part III. INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF GLOBAL BUSINESS - George Brenkert CHAPTER 11. The U.S. Business Scandals: Perspectives on Ethics and Culture at Home and Abroad - Frank Vogl CHAPTER 12. Is Corruption Always Corrupt? - Manuel Velasquez CHAPTER 13 Law, Accountability and Globalization - Richard DeGeorge CHAPTER 14 The Next Generation of Codes of Conduct - Bruce Moats CHAPTER 15 Global Business Ethics: A Multi-Institutional Approach - John Dienhart PART IV. FOSTERING CORPORATE INTEGRITY - George Brenkert CHAPTER 16 Corporate Integrity within a Corporate Citizenship Framework - Steven Rochlin CHAPTER 17 CEO Compensation - Parameters, Paradigms and Paradoxes - Eleanor O'Higgins CHAPTER 18 Shareholder Engagement: Does It Promote CSR? - Jane Collier CHAPTER 19 Instilling Moral Competence - Catherine Smith and Pieter Kroon