Commercial Ethics: Process or Outcome?

There are inherent paradoxes in commercial ethics. Rigid tendering processes
should make it hard to corrupt procurement exercises, but often also drive out innovation
and thought. Innovation, such as new technology, can help make the world a
better place; but technology can also be deployed by the unscrupulous for ill. This
lecture explores the philosophy behind commercial ethics with examples of real world
commercial ethical issues.

Ian Harris is a Director of Z/Yen Group Limited. Ian took his
degree in Economics and Law at Keele University and is also a Chartered Accountant.
Ian is a regular contributor of articles and pieces for the business and not-for-profit
press. He is co-author, together with Professor Michael Mainelli, of the practical book
"IT for the Not-for-Profit Sector" and the best-selling novel "Clean Business
Cuisine". Ian sits as an external advisor on the British Computer Society?s Ethics
Strategic Panel.