Ebenezer Society: A Corporate Networking Ethics Committee

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...

Do Personal Ethics Influence Corporate Ethics?

In this paper, we introduce a new measure of personal ethics in the form of marital cheating to examine the relationship between personal ethics and corporate misconduct. Firms with CEOs and CFOs who use a marital infidelity website are more than twice as likely to engage in two forms of corporate misconduct. The relationship is not explained by a wide range of regional, firm, and executive cha...

National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee

Ethics-committee authorization in Germany.

On 9 August 1994 the German legislature revised the German Drug Law (AMG). Included in the revision is a passage requiring, for the first time, that the sponsors and investigators of clinical studies involving human subjects first obtain the approval of an ethics committee before carrying out such studies. According to the legislation, which takes effect on 17 August 1995, approval is to come f...

Corporate governance and business ethics.

1Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery; 2Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Queen’s University, Kingston; 3Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Correspondence: Dr Douglas R McKay, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen’s University, Hotal Dieu Hospital, 166 Brock Street, Broc...