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The Role of the Board of Directors in Ensuring a Culture of Integrity

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Integrity in Organizations

Part of the book series: Humanism in Business Series ((HUBUS))

Abstract

Corporate scandals are as old as the corporate form itself. Consider, for example, the controversies surrounding the role of one of the first modern corporations, the British East India Company, in the Bengal famine of 1770 and in the Chinese opium trade. Yet it is the increasing scale and scope of unethical acts carried out by individuals in the name, and interests, of corporations that continue to be concerning.

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  1. Natalie Elms
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Goethe Business School, Germany

    Wolfgang Amann

  2. Silesian University of Technology, Poland

    Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (Associate Professor of Management) (Associate Professor of Management)

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Elms, N., Nicholson, G. (2013). The Role of the Board of Directors in Ensuring a Culture of Integrity. In: Amann, W., Stachowicz-Stanusch, A. (eds) Integrity in Organizations. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280350_27

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