On July 6 & 7, 2006, the Center on Corporations, Law & Society at Seattle University School of Law and the Albers Business Ethics Initiative at Seattle University are co-hosting an international conference entitled “Business Ethics in the Corporate Governance Era: Domestic & International Trends in Transparency, Regulation, and Corporate Governance”. In the wake of corporate corruption and fraud in developed and developing countries, the world is teeming with both regulatory and voluntary initiatives to improve corporate governance and market transparency. These initiatives are often justified because they promote ethical goals, such as:
Protecting shareholders, employees, consumers, and other stakeholders;
Building healthy markets that will improve the lives of everyone;
Creating a fair playing field;
Promoting trust.
The conference will examine these initiatives and their effectiveness in achieving their ethical goals. The first part of the conference will be devoted to invited presentations by those from business, government, financial and accounting professional organizations, inter-governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. They will address the ethical impacts of their initiatives to promote transparency and effective corporate governance. The second part of the conference will be devoted to refereed and invited presentations from the academic and research community. These presentations will examine domestic and international regulatory and voluntary efforts to promote corporate ethics through improved transparency and corporate governance…
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