Ethics Links

Associations and Organizations

• Is World Net: is a professional ethics web site for the Information Systems profession.
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics: committed to interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics.
• Better Business Bureau: self-regulatory organization that monitors business performance and helps mediate disputes between businesses and customers.
• Business Ethics Research Project: a Japanese site (text in English) that offers ECS2000 an Ethics Compliance Standard.  This program parallels the United States Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and indicates a world convergence on structure to manage ethical and legal issues.
• Business for Social Responsibility: provides resources to help companies implement ethics and social responsibility initiatives.
• The Caux Round Table: organization comprised of global business leaders that advocate positive change in the business world.
• Corporate Watch: online magazine and resource center that monitors corporate activity and works to expose corporate wrongdoing.
• Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct: consortium of defense industry contractors that adheres to a set of principles for achieving high standards of business ethics and conduct.
• EthicScan: monitors the social and environmental performance of Canadian firms.
• Ethics Officer Association: professional association for ethics officers and managers of ethics and compliance programs.
• European Business Ethics Network: promotes values-based and ethical
  aware management, to  stimulate and facilitate discussion and debate on common ethical problems and dilemmas.
• European Business Network for Employment and Social Cohesion: mission is to contribute to a sustainable
  economy and a more just society.
• European Institute for Business Ethics: created to enhance ethical awareness and promote ethics training.
• Green Pages: online directory of thousands of socially and environmentally responsible businesses, products and services.
• The Hunger Site: every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger, by visiting this site you make it possible for food to be donated to hunger people worldwide. 
• International Association for Business and Society: comprised of scholars and practitioners who are interested in the field of business and societal relationships.
• International Business Ethics Institute: dedicated to helping organizations and industries implement international ethics programs.
• KPMG Business Ethics Newsletter: source of current information about ethics risk assessment, training and awareness.
• Mortgage Bankers Association of America:
  Canons of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
• Redefining the Corporation: provides direction for implementing balanced perspectives of stakeholder management based on the work of hundreds of researchers.
• Social Venture Network: dedicated to supporting socially conscious entrepreneurs.
• Socially-Responsible Companies and Web Sites:  companies that make major commitments to help others in need or work especially hard to support worthwhile causes.
• Society for Ethics: philosophical society that promotes research in moral, social and political philosophy as it applies to ethics.
• Students for Responsible Business: association for students who are interested in using the power of business to create a better world.
• Transparency International: dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing bribery and corruption worldwide.
• TRUSTe: non-profit privacy initiative working to address Internet privacy issues through the development of a third-party oversight "seal" of approval.