Crane & Matten: Business Ethics 2e
Chapter 09
Ethics in Action 9.1: Arthur Andersen: there’s no accounting for one’s friends
Arthur Anderson.
www.arthuranderson.com
Accenture – the consulting spin off from Anderson.
www.accenture.com
Enron.
www.enron.com
Worldcom – renamed MCI after bankruptcy in 2003 and now part of Verizon.
www.mci.com
BBC The Enron Affair – is a set of pages detailing the Enron case, Andersen’s role and the political and commercial impact.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2002/enron/default.stm
Public Broadcasting Service: PBS, the US public television company has a series of interviews about the implications of the Andersen situation with some of the key figures in the drama.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/regulation/lessons/
Ethics in Action 9.2 – In the company of spies? How industrial espionage is moving from dumpster diving to Trojan horses
Procter & Gamble.
www.pg.com
Unilever.
www.unilever.com
Canal Plus.
www.canalplus.fr/
Marks and Spencer.
www.marksandspencer.com
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
www.scip.org/
The Competitive Intelligence Handbook – provides information on what competitive intelligence is and how to collect and analyse your competitors data for use in decision making.
www.combsinc.com/handbook.htm
Intellectual Property site managed by the UK government.
www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/
National Consumer Council Guidance on the Release of Commercially Sensitive Information.
www.ncc.org.uk/dataprotection/sensitive_info_guidance.pdf
Information Warfare Site on Computer and Information security – provides information on all types of intelligence and issues within business and how to guard against them.
www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/
Economic and Competitive Intelligence Unit – provides links to variety of resources on economic, strategic and military intelligence.
www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/ecintel.html


