Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2011

Building Corporate Integrity Systems to Address Corruption Risks

September 2009

Transparency International

Abstract

Corporate integrity is often perceived to be the product of ethical leadership, strong compliance and effective regulations that prevent and sanction wrong-doing. While these elements are essential, each on their own is not sufficient to comprehensively and sustainably tackle the broad range of interrelated corruption risks that face companies.