Ethics & CSR

The Albers Business Ethics Initiative is a three-year program designed to help businesses, nonprofits, and government as they build more ethical and efficient organizations. The ABEI is directed by Dr. John W. Dienhart, the Frank Shrontz Chair for Business Ethics at Seattle University.

The goals of the ABEI are:

To implement the Frank Shrontz Lecture and Workshop Series on Business Ethics.
To support the Northwest Ethics Network, a group of ethics and compliance officers f

BSR is an organization whose goal is to help companies use high ethical standards to achieve success. Through its publications, web site, and its network with other companies, NGO's and other stakeholders, it connects companies with best practices and models. For the visitor to this site, the Issue Briefs, External Resources and and selected articles from the BSR magazine are accessible

Housed at Univ. of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, this new center has its members 150 CEO's and faculty from Darden Harvard, Northeastern, Northwestern, Penn State, Univ of Mich, Univ of Minn. Notre Dame and U Texas at Austin. The goal of the institute is collect "best practices" for teaching ethics to students and professionals.

Web site for Loyola Marymount University. Fun icons help the user through this site. Be sure to go to the toolbox for brief papers on the philosophic basics of ethics.

The Center is located at Colorado State University and sponsors this e-ethics site. "Much of this site's content is being provided by businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and academics that support interactivity and accessibility of information. " Includes case studies, sample articles and links to other centers.

The Ethics Resource Center is a nonprofit educational organization, founded 85 years ago. Contains downloadable articles Its areas of primary interest are character development, global ethics and organizational ethics as well as federal policy and national surveys. Includes book reviews. In addition, to full text of its newsletter online, the web site has much to offer the site visitor. Use the FAQ section for not only information about the site, but other links on the web relevant to ethics

Founded in 1994, this organization focuses on international business ethics. Its website has the full text of reports, as well as many articles from its publication, International Business Ethics Review. In addition to education and communication activities, the institute also works directly with companies. Its resource page links with ethics quotes, a bibliography and a 3 page primer on business ethics.

Located at Santa Clara University, this renowned center analyzes ethical issues and develops tools to address these issues.

"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. The Society... produces the scholarly journal Business Ethics Quarterly."