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.

Corporate-Ethics US™ - distinguished PhD and JD ethics experts delivering customized business ethics advice and seminar education to corporate America.

• Business for Social Responsibility  
• Caux: International Conference Center for Moral Re-Armament
• 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.")
• (The) Ethics and Compliance Officers Association, formerly the 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.
• 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.

1. Government
2. Employee/Employment
3. Customers
4. Competitors
5. Stockholders
6. Financial Assurance
7. Intellectual Property (Ours and Theirs)
8. Workplace Safety
9. Environmental
10. Product Quality and Safety
11. International