Business Ethics: Useful Links / Associations

An index of publications on Canadian research and activities in the area of business ethics including CSR, governance, sustainability, SRI, etc. Some articles and reports relate to specific company practice. Provides access to full text documents and links to websites where documents can be accessed. CBERN members, partners, and CBERN student research assistants all contribute to CBERN’s e-Library.

Access to a list of CEBC publications focused in the following three areas: 1)Corporate Citizenship, 2)Ethical Leadership, Management and Culture, 3)Work-Life and Critical Employer-Employee Relationships.

Look under Ethics Toolkit and Ethics Publications, as well as Helpful Links for useful information.

Globethics.net is a global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large number of resources on ethics, especially through its leading global digital ethics library.

Canadian focused governance resources, governance practices and more. Need to create a new account to access news & publication section.

Non-members must contact them to request copies of discussion papers. Publications are divided into the following categories: discussion documents, reports, surveys, and yearbooks.

May filter resources by issue or content type.

Founded in 1999, CSRwire is a digital media platform for the latest news, views and reports in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

Articles, cases, and links on corporate governance, organizational ethics, creating an ethical culture, and global business ethics from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

The Research and Reports section has a number of reports and papers that will be of interest, with sections on shareholder engagement, proxy voting, investor briefs (on ESG), law reform research and responsible investing.

"Goal with this site is to bring together academics, practitioners and interested people into discussions about justice and behavioral ethics. The conversation is organized around topics of research, literature (academic and practitioner but also news, film or fiction, parables, anything you’ve read, heard or seen!), practice and teaching."

the first world-wide professional association to focus exclusively on the study of business, economics, and ethics. Its professional orientation involves people not only with academic competencies but also with practical competencies in responsible management positions (such as vice-presidents and issue managers) and entrepreneurs of medium-size and small companies.

The International Business Ethics Institute (IBEI) is a non-profit educational organization that was founded in 1994 in response to the growing need for transnationalism in the field of organizational ethics and integrity. IBEI was the first organization devoted to helping organizations develop truly global ethics and integrity programs. Check out the resources section which includes publications, research and a list of ethics organizations.

CBE is credited with being a major influence in the development and success of the business ethics movement, both in the United States and around the world.

"Tracking the positive and negative impacts of over 5100 companies worldwide." Updated every day. It is a UK charity.

"The first organization dedicated to transnationalism in the field of applied business ethics."

"The Society for Business Ethics is an international organization of scholars and others interested in business ethics. The Society provides a forum for those interested in research, teaching, or the practical application of ethical principles and concepts to the management of businesses." They produce Business Ethics Quarterly.

UK-based. "Since 1986 IBE has published more than 50 practical books on applied business ethics topics; conducted surveys on the use of codes of ethics within companies..."

"The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) is a member-driven association exclusively for individuals responsible for their organization's ethics, compliance, and business conduct programs."

An association of people working in the area of corporate responsibility. It "supports the concept that to excel, organizations need to embrace multiple responsibility disciplines including sustainability, governance, social responsibility, and philanthropy."

A listing of companies that were prosecuted by the Ontario Ministry of Labour for violating the Employment Standards Act. Not a company ranking in the usual sense ... but certainly a list of companies with ethical problems.

A search engine on corporate misconduct, covering banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, health, safety, price-fixing and bribery cases initiated by 30 federal regulatory agencies and the Justice Department since 2010. It is produced by the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First.

American, and for a very particular purpose: it is a listing of "companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations" to which the US government has awarded contracts. It is run by the Project On Government Oversight, "a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government."