The Balanced Company: A Corporate Integrity Theory - Hardcover

Kaptein, Muel; Wempe, Johan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199255504 ISBN 13: 9780199255504

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book contains a cohesive overview of the most important theories and insights in the field of business ethics. At the same time, it further tailors these theories to the situation in which organizations function, presenting criteria that can be used to measure, assess, improve and report on corporate integrity.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Muel Kaptein and Dr Johan Wempe have been active as consultants in the field of corporate ethics, integrity, social responsibility, and compliance since the early 1990s. They assist profit and non-profit organizations in developing and implementing business codes by providing training sessions, conducting integrity audits, and setting up compliance processes. Muel and Johan co-founded KPMG Ethics and Integrity Consulting in 1995. Johan is co-developer of the ethics game 'Cards on the Table'. Muel has also developed 'The Integrity Thermometer', which has since been used to review a large number of organizations. They have facilitated the development of business codes for many companies. In addition, they also assisted Shell in developing its very first sustainability report in 1998 and have acted as verifiers of subsequent reports.

Review

`A major contribution to the literature on business ethics and corporate responsibility. Their book combines clear writing with a knowledgeable, insightful and comprehensive examination of a huge body of theory and literature on their subject. Their corporate integrity model provides a
coherent framework for analysis of the major ethical dilemmas facing modern corporations. This is a thoughtful and thorough book for serious readers wanting to make sense of the corporation's many ethical dilemmas.'
Robert J. DeFillippi, Professor of Management, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston

`This book is novel and provocative. The authors move from detailed facts to abstract theories - and back again - and from concrete challenges faced by living corporations to speculation about broad societal challenges - and back again - as if they were speaking of one, seamless ethical,
practical world. At the present time there is nothing like this book on the market.'
Thomas Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor and Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

`The Balanced Company delivers valuable insight for twenty-first-century leadership in a new age of global business practice. Business organizations wishing to succeed over the long term will increasingly govern themselves by the universal principles of integrity; creating corporate cultures
that are defined by values that set a strong and clear ethical tone for employees.'
Stephen G. Butler, Chairman, KPMG

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199255504
• ISBN 13: 9780199255504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356