E-Business Integrity

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the many strategies of Lockheed-Martin with regard to ensuring ethical business behavior, in addition to legal and regulatory compliance. The paper examines the stance of the company on intellectual property rights and the ethical use of online data collected from employees' use of e-mail and Web browsing. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for improving these policies within the Lockheed-Martin company.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Lockheed-Martin's Defining Best Practices in Online Ethics
Intellectual Property Rights and Ethical use of Online Data
Opportunities for Improvement

From the Paper:

"For many companies in the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry the ethical challenges of selling to foreign governments and winning contracts over competing vendors located in these host countries leads to bribery and unethical offers of assistance in an attempt to win new business. The many ethical lapses of Boeing including their many harassment scandals (Atkins 2006) have become common knowledge, with extensive U.S. government of the entire A&D industry occurring as a result."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Atkins (2006) - Boeing and Toyota Beef Up Training In Response to Recent Scandals. August 4, 2006. Shanti Atkins. Accessed from the Internet on November 6, 2007 from location: http://harassmenttraining.elt-inc.com/2006/08/articles/-federal-harassment-training/boeing-and-toyota-beef-up-training-in-response-to-recent-scandals/
• Charles Fombrun, Christopher Foss. (2004). Business Ethics: Corporate Responses to Scandal. Corporate Reputation Review, 7(3), 284-288. Retrieved November 6, 2007, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 763999691)
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• Irene Pollach (2003). Communicating corporate ethics and the World Wide Web: A Discourse analysis of selected company Web sites. Business and Society, 42(2), 277-287. Retrieved November 6, 2007, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 347640861).
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) - U.S. Senators Sarbanes and Oxley. Passed in 2002 by both U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Text viewed on the Internet on November 6, 2007: http://www.aicpa.org/info/sarbanes_oxley_summary.htm

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