caa a22 4500 465817742 CHVBK 20180323112127.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00382911 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00382911 Corporate codes of conduct: A collective conscience and continuum [Elektronische Daten] [Cecily Raiborn, Dinah Payne] This paper discusses the vast continuum between the letter of the law (legality) and the spirit of the law (ethics or morality). Further, the authors review the fiduciary duties owed by the firm to its various publics. These aspects must be considered in developing a corporate code of ethics. The underlying qualitative characteristics of a code include clarity, comprehensiveness and enforceability. While ethics is indigenous to a society, every code of ethics will necessarily reflect the corporate culture from which that code stems and be responsive to the innumerable situations for which it was created. Several examples have been provided to illustrate the ease of applicability of these concepts. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Raiborn Cecily Department of Management, University of New Orleans, Lakefront, 70148, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A. aut Payne Dinah Department of Management, University of New Orleans, Lakefront, 70148, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A. aut Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/11(1990-11-01), 879-889 0167-4544 9:11<879 1990 9 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382911 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382911 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Raiborn Cecily Department of Management, University of New Orleans, Lakefront, 70148, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Payne Dinah Department of Management, University of New Orleans, Lakefront, 70148, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/11(1990-11-01), 879-889 0167-4544 9:11<879 1990 9 10551 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer