Endorsements of Corporate Integrity

"When Kofi Annan claims that “we are not asking corporations to do something different from their normal business; we are asking them to do their normal business differently”, very few really know what this means. Marvin Brown in his book Corporate Integrity succeeds in showing us how. By focusing on corporate integrity as capacities and capabilities from a civic perspective, he invites us to explore a new and distinctly different approach. Instead of looking at business from a moral or top down perspective, he employs civic perspectives that allow different voices to be heard, various perspectives and views to be voiced, and multiple futures to be discussed jointly. He advocates a relational approach where dialogue is the means, changing the pattern of communication part of the process and the ultimate goal is living in relationships of integrity. His book is a timely contribution to our world today where cynicism about business integrity is at an all time high."

 

"Marvin Brown has written an innovate and important book developing corporate integrity as a complex concept with a number of overlapping meanings.  This systems approach to thinking about corporations and their roles in civil society is a unique contribution to the field of business ethics that will make a lasting contribution to this scholarship."

 Patricia Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics,Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

 

"Not since Peter Drucker's Concept of the Corporation startled executives at the close of World War II has such a provocative and far-reaching view of the corporation and its moral responsibilities been proposed."

Richard O. Mason,Director, The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and Carr P. Collins Distinguished Professor Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

 

"Marvin Brown has written a philosophically subtle yet eminently practical guide for thinking about corporate integrity.  Corporate leaders, as well as academics and students, can learn much from Brown’s lucid and insightful book."

 

"I don’t know any other book that places corporate integrity into the context of civil society so vigorously. To business people and employees, it persuasively shows what integrity means and entails for corporate leadership, policy and success. To consumers, investors, and business critics, it makes clear how companies can be respected as authentic corporate citizens. The book is a must for those who want to break through the current fashionable and superficial talks about ethical and unethical business behavior."

Georges Enderle,President, International Society of Business, Economic, and Ethics, Arthur and Mary O'Neil Professor of International Business Ethics, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Indiana / USA

 

"Corporate Integrity is an insightful and timely exploration of the concept of integrity in business.  Brown’s analysis of corporations as human systems with a purpose explains the moral meltdowns in corporate America as systemic failures of relationships and communications, both inside and outside the organizations.  This book offers a five-dimensional perspective from which corporations might protect or repair their “integrity system” and thereby gain our trust.  With the amended Federal Sentencing Guidelines now mandating the promotion of ethical corporate cultures—and making leaders responsible for this—Corporate Integrity has arrived not a nanosecond too soon."

W. Michael Hoffman,Executive Director, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College