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Corp. Compliance

This page of Bucklin.org is devoted to lawyer research helps and links for research in business ethics and legal compliance programs and corporate governance. By corporate governance is meant compliance with law plus business ethics, starting with the board of directors and going down to the temporary part time worker hired yesterday.

From a Lawyer's viewpoint, a number of ethics articles regarding business are found at the ABA Business Law Section's website. Each month, the Section of Business Law eSource brings you an easy click-through of may of the paper magazine of the Section, covering timely issues and developments impacting business law and business lawyers.

Here is a partial list of institutions in the United States that work on business ethics.

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	Babson College Business Ethics Program
	Business Ethics and Stakeholder Relations Program at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre
	Business for Social Responsibility
	Caux: International Conference Center for Moral Re-Armament
	Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College . an ecampus with Sears connections that pays for some good work and publications.
	Center for Business Ethics at Loyola Marymount University
	Center for Business Ethics Study at the University of St. Thomas
	Center for Ethical Business Cultures
	Council for Ethics in Economics
	E-Center for Business Ethics, at Colorado State University ("...providing a source of information on business ethics, corporate citizenship and organizational compliance. The goal of the e-business center is to create a virtual community of organizations and individuals that share best practices in the improvement of business ethics.")
	Ethics Officer Association We regard this association as the ne plus ultra association for corporate ethics officers. It's pricy, but worth it, for a corporation to sponsor its ethics officer in membership.
	ethicspoint ("a provider for the reporting of ethical violations affecting employers.")
	Ethics Resource Center
	The Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable
	Institute for Business & Professional Ethics at DePaul University in Chicago
	Murray G. Bacon Center for Ethics in Business at Iowa State University College of Business
	Society for Business Ethics
	Transparency International ("a non-governmental organization dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing both international and national corruption")
	Wharton Ethics Program at the University of Pennsylvania

This list is adapted from one from Center for Applied Ethics, although considerably edited and changed here.

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The Board of Directors of a Corporation needs to set the compliance and ethics goals to govern their company. These governance goals need to address at least the following separate areas of ethic and legal compliance.

Government
Employee/Employment
Customers
Competitors
Stockholders
Financial Assurance
Intellectual Property (Ours and Theirs)
Workplace Safety
Environmental
Product Quality and Safety
International