Corporate Governance and Business Ethics - Towards an Integrated Approach

I Bonn; Josephine A Fisher

Corporate Governance and Business Ethics - Towards an Integrated Approach

I Bonn
, Josephine A Fisher

UNE Business School

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference: People First - Serving Our Stakeholders
Editors	University of Otago
Place of Publication	Dunedin, New Zealand
Publisher	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
ISBN (Print)	0476011310
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	ANZAM 2004: 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management - Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: 8 Dec 2004 → 11 Dec 2004

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Conference	ANZAM 2004: 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
City	Dunedin, New Zealand
Period	8/12/04 → 11/12/04

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Legal Ethics

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Bonn, I & Fisher, JA 2004, Corporate Governance and Business Ethics - Towards an Integrated Approach. in U of Otago (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference: People First - Serving Our Stakeholders. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Dunedin, New Zealand, ANZAM 2004: 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Dunedin, New Zealand, 8/12/04. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2341>

Corporate Governance and Business Ethics - Towards an Integrated Approach. / Bonn, I; Fisher, Josephine A.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference: People First - Serving Our Stakeholders. ed. / University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2004.

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